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Series 2: Event recordings and related materials (continued)
Original tape box, with handwritten notes, undated (continued)
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Scott_Hambly_And_Pete_Berg/shpb1959-02-06/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR25 Redwood Canyon Ramblers at Berkeley Hillel, Berkeley, California, July 26, 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959-07-26t01.aif - rcr1959-07-26t14.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-26/
Extent: 14 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane" - Janet Smith and Tom Barton 00:03:18
"Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" - Redwood Canyon Ramblers 00:02:45
"Mary Hamilton" - Tom Barton 00:04:50
"Sweet Kate" - Janet Smith and Rita Weill 00:00:43
Unidentified folk song - Janet Smith 00:01:22
"Salty Dog" - Redwood Canyon Ramblers 00:02:10
"Reuben" - Redwood Canyon Ramblers 00:02:04
"The Cruel Mother" - Janet Smith 00:01:57
"Gypsy Lady" - Janet Smith and Tom Barton 00:04:03
"Red Apple Juice" - Redwood Canyon Ramblers 00:01:49
"Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Loud, Loud Music" - Redwood Canyon Ramblers 00:01:46
"The Great Silkie" - Rita Weill 00:02:45
"John Hardy" - Tom Barton 00:05:05
"Israel Night Y'all Come" - unidentified female lead singer 00:01:35
Song list and production notes for SR25, July 4, 2011
Filename: rcr1959-07-26.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-26/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
From the documentation: "Tom [Barton] used this and Reel #26 in his collection to make Neil Rosenberg's Reel #203 compilation dub in 1973."
Handwritten set list, undated
Filename: rcr1959-07-26.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-26/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Original tape box, with handwritten notes, undated
Filename: rcr1959-07-25_26tapebox.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-26/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR26 Redwood Canyon Ramblers at Northgate Club, Berkeley, California, July 28, 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959-07-28t01.aif - rcr1959-07-28t15.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-28/
Extent: 15 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Set 1
Content Elapsed time
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" [fades in] 00:01:50
"Little Maggie" 00:02:17
"Amelia Earhart" 00:03:22
"Honky Tonk Angels" 00:02:47
"Reuben" 00:02:24
"Salty Dog" (fades in) 00:02:36
"Knoxville Girl" 00:04:21
"Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Loud, Loud Music" 00:02:36
"Life Is Like A Mountain Railway" 00:02:32
"Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" 00:01:05
Set 2
Content Elapsed time
"A Million Years In Glory" 00:02:33
"Foggy Mountain Chimes" 00:02:01
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:01:46
"Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" [fades in] 00:01:45
"Reuben" 00:02:19
Song list and production notes for SR26, July 5, 2011
Filename: rcr1959-07-28.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-28/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten set list, undated
Filename: rcr1959-07-28.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-28/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Original tape box, with handwritten notes, undated
Filename: rcr1959-07-28tapebox.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-07-28/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR27 Home demo, Berkeley, California - Neil Rosenberg, July 30, 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: nvr1959-07-30t01.aif - nvr1959-07-30t19.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1959-07-30/
Extent: 19 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
From the documentation: "excerpts from this were dubbed onto Neil Rosenberg's [tape] #203 in 1973."
Content Elapsed time
Neil's Intro/"My Name Is John Johanna" 00:04:03
"Titanic" 00:04:56
"Black Jack Davy" 00:02:50
"Down In The Willow Garden" 00:01:05
"Wildwood Flower"/"Freight Train"/"Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" 00:02:26
"Going Down The Road Feeling Bad"/talk about picking style and Peggy Seeger 00:02:13
"Katy Cruel" 00:00:44
"Railroad Bill" 00:01:50
"Shule Aroo" 00:02:42
"Blues In E" 00:04:12
"Blues In D" 00:03:15
"Nobody's Fault But Mine" 00:02:15
"Old Blue" (fragment) [reel side change] 00:00:21
"John Henry" 00:05:18
"Gallow's Pole" 00:02:38
"Ella Speed" 00:03:40
"Working On The Railroad" 00:02:30
"Skin Game Blues"/"God Loves His Children" (fragment on 12 string) 00:01:29
"God Loves His Children" (on 6 string) 00:00:34
Song list and production notes for SR27, July 8, 2011
Filename: nvr1959-07-30.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1959-07-30/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten set list, undated
Filename: nvr1959-07-30.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1959-07-30/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Original tape box, with handwritten notes, undated
Filename: nvr1959-07-30 Tapebox.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1959-07-30/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR01 Redwood Canyon Ramblers at The Northgate Restaurant, August 1959
Sound recording (full)
Item ID: AFC 2011/011: SR01
Rack number: RXJ 0530
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (acetate; Side 1: 00:46:39, Side 2: 00:41:05) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.
Recorded at The Northgate Restaurant, Berkeley, California. Original Rosenberg inventory number: tape 12.
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959-08-00t01.aif - rcr1959-08-00t30.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-08-00/
Extent: 30 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Set 1
Content Elapsed time
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" [incomplete; this is the last part of the song] 00:00:52
"Blue Ridge Cabin Home" 00:03:10
"Pretty Polly" 00:03:01
"Salty Dog" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:31
"Red Apple Juice (Sugar Baby)" 00:02:42
"White House Blues" 00:03:01
Set 2
Content Elapsed time
"Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:03:13
"Life's Railway To Heaven" 00:03:55
"Mountain Fling" medley: "Wildwood Flower"/"Rosewood Casket"/"Cindy"/"Woody's Rag" 00:04:56
"Jimmy Brown" 00:02:59
"Wild Side Of Life" 00:04:44
"Home Sweet Home" [instrumental]("better check the fiddle") 00:01:34
Intermission/drumming/tuning [to 00:35:11] 00:02:41
Set 3
Content Elapsed time
"Battleship of Maine" 00:03:16
"Little Maggie" 00:03:48
"Katy Dear" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:47
"Down The Road" [reel direction change] 00:01:49
"Amelia Earhart" 00:03:52
"Million Years In Glory" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:03:17
"Hard, Ain't It Hard" 00:02:13
Intermission/drumming [to 00:11:23] 00:02:13
Set 4
Content Elapsed time
"Your Love Is Like A Flower" [the beginning of the song is cut off] 00:03:29
"Great Speckled Bird" 00:03:12
"Knoxville Girl" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:05:05
"Randy Lynn Rag" 00:03:05
"Bile Them Cabbage Down" [with Campbell Coe on guitar] 00:02:19
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:03:14
"Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Loud, Loud Music" ("big round of boos for our banjo player") 00:04:12
"Pike County Breakdown" 00:03:20
"Reuben's Train"/closing remarks 00:03:23
Song list and production notes for SR01, January 8, 2011
Filename: rcr1959-08-00.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-08-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten song list, with counter numbers from the tape deck, undated
Filename: rcr1959-08-00.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-08-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Neil V. Rosenberg in performance at Northgate, 1959
Filename: 590800 NVR at Northgate.jpg
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-08-00/
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white, digital (.jpg)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR28 KPFA demo audition, Berkeley, California - Redwood Canyon Ramblers, September 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959-09-00t01.aif - rcr1959-09-00t18.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-09-00/
Extent: 18 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"Randy Lynn Rag" 00:02:04
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:02:10
"Blue Ridge Mountain Home" 00:02:14
"Million Years In Glory" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:21
"Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:27
"Little Maggie" 00:02:33
"Pretty Polly" 00:02:25
"White House Blues" 00:02:06
"Hard, Ain't It Hard" 00:01:58
"Home Sweet Home" 00:01:17
Mountain Fling Medley: "Wildwood Flower"/"Rosewood Casket"/"Cindy"/"Woody's Rag" 00:03:57
"Salty Dog" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:08
"Amelia Earhart" 00:03:19
"Jimmie Brown" 00:02:17
"Red Apple Juice (Sugar Baby)" 00:01:42
"Pike County Breakdown" 00:02:08
"Your Love Is Like A Flower" 00:02:28
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:02:15
Song list and production notes for SR28, April 19, 2011
Filename: rcr1959-09-00.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-09-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten song list, with counter numbers from the tape deck, undated
Filename: rcr1959_1960StudioSessions.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-09-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Details about SR28 and SR29 are listed on the same document.
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR29 Royal Recording Studio session, Berkeley, California - Redwood Canyon Ramblers, December 26, 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959-12-26t01.aif - rcr1959-12-26t10.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-12-26/
Extent: 10 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"Cripple Creek" 00:02:02
"Darling Corey" #1 00:02:57
"Darling Corey" #2 00:03:00
"Pike County Breakdown" #1 00:02:05
"Pike County Breakdown" #2 00:02:07
"Winchester 94" 00:02:00
"Mocking Banjo" #1 [breakdown] 00:01:51
"Mocking Banjo" #2 00:02:38
"Rocky Run" #1 [breakdown] 00:01:09
"Rocky Run" #2 00:02:13
Song list and production notes for SR29, January 7, 2011
Filename: rcr1959-12-26.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-12-26/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten song list, with counter numbers from the tape deck, undated
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-12-26/
Filename: rcr1959_1960StudioSessions.pdf
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Details about SR28 and SR29 are in the same document.
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR23 Home demo love songs, Berkeley, California - Janet Smith, 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: js1959t01.aif - js1959t13.aif
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