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Charles AtkinsCharles Atkins Live at The Practice Sessions on 1993-03-11 (March 11, 1993)

Collection: : CharlesAtkins
Band/Artist: Charles Atkins
Date: March 11, 1993 (check for other copies)
Venue: The Practice Sessions
Location: Tallahassee, FL

Source: SBD > 2 track cassette mono
Lineage: Digitized using Griffin iMic and Final Vinyl at 32 bit
Taped by: SCopeland
Transferred by: SCopeland
Keywords: blues; Florida; Florida State University; FSU; Tallahassee

Description

Trk Name
Side A
01 Thrill Up On the HIll
02 Lean On Me
03 Thank You Pretty Baby
04 Thank You Pretty Baby
05 Save The Children
06 Save The Children
07 Save The Children teaching
08 Stand By Me
09 What Does it Take
10 What Does it Take ending
11 What Does it Take ending
12 All Blues
13 New Train - Hit It
14 New Train
15 Florida Song #
16 Florida Song
17 Florida Song
18 Florida Song EOT
Side B
19 Florida Song cont
20 Precious Little Children
21 Precious - drum lesson
22 Precious Little Children
23 Precious - no harp
24 Precious Little Children
25 That's Alright*
26 When Will They Ever Learn
27 Little Runaround
28 Movin On
29 Movin On intro
30 Movin On
31 Higher and Higher warmup
32 Higher and Higher*
Side C
33 Light Up Above #
34 Let There Be Love #
35 Light Up Above
36 Ribbon On My Day

total time @ 1.7 hours, 1030 megabytes
# new, first time recorded

Highlights:
Tracks 2, 9, 16 and 32 onward

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Reviewer: scott-tally - - May 29, 2008
Subject: a year later
Been over a year since I listened to this. It was the second in the CA practice series I posted to LMA - just learning how to digitize these old tapes. So some technical things on my part ain't quite there (I still may redo), but really this recording deserves to be the most popular for Charles. We all shared the feeling that night - hope you do too.

Notes

Players:
Charles Atkins - keyboards and vocals
The Blues Boys
Larry Laseur - harmonica; * vocals
Harty Wiedemann - guitar
Tom Henning - guitar

Matt Thiebault - bass
RC - drums


Notes:
This was another practice session for Matt and RC, similar to 3-7-93. The guitar parts can be tiresome as they learn their stuff, but that's the way it went trying to keep up with Charles. Someone (me or Tom) had the reverb on the board turned up a bit too much (obviously), but it paid off near the end when Larry was playing harp thru a vocal mic.

Lean on Me is always nice but the reverb detracts some. I have field recordings of Charles singing this in a Special Ed classroom with the kids and aides (he would "call on" everyone there and it would go on forever) but it's doubtful I'll put those on the archive. All Blues is something the band made up; New Train too. Track 18 - Florida Song - was good but the tape ran out and side B had a skip in it. About 2 hours into the practice, Charles was warmed up, everybody else was done for, so he hit it. Track 32 - Higher and Higher has Larry singing with Charles on harmony. The rest are Charles originals. I believe this was the first recording of Ribbon On My Day - a song Charles wrote for Larry's wife at the time, DL Laseur, who would walk Charles across the FSU campus between classes. (Ed. 2-11-93 is first recording but I can't find a session sheet for that date.)