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Tim O'Brien Setlists

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I can only tape to DAT format!!!


Format: DAT
Source: DSBD
Generation: 0
Length: 120
Date: 6/29/92 - maybe 6/26/92
Location: Mishawaka Inn, Ft. Collins, CO
Set list:
  1. Dust Bowl Children
  2. Tumbleweed
  3. On The Wings Of Horses
  4. Before The Streets Were Paved
  5. ?
  6. Carmelita? >
  7. The Hobo Song
  8. * The Free Mexican Airforce
  9. * Midnight Moonlight
  10. * Sally Goodin
  11. * True Life Blues
  12. * All On A Rising Day (has glitch)
  13. * Soldier's Joy
  14. * Come On & Break My Heart Again
  15. * Land Of The Navajo
Note: * = w/ Peter Rowan, Charles Sawtelle, & Mark Schatz.
Title: Merlefest
Format: CD, DAT
Source: SBD
Generation: 0
Length: 80
Date: 4/30/94
Location: Wilkesboro, NC
Set list:
  1. Cora Is Gone
  2. The Old Hometown
  3. Take Me In Your Lifeboat
  4. Far Far Away
  5. The Church Steeple (High On A Hillside)
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Dylan)
  7. Hey Joe
  8. A Perfect Place To Hide
  9. Time To Learn
  10. * Smack Dab In The Middle
  11. He Had A Long Chain On
  12. Instrumental (featuring Mark Schatz)
  13. Instrumental (featuring ? Juba)
  14. # California Blues
  15. *# Daddy, Please Don't Go Away
  16. * Hold To A Dream

    Filler: Junior Brown from earlier in the fest (same day?)

  17. Freeborn Man
  18. I Want To Hear It From You
  19. Highway Patrol
  20. Still Life With Rose
Musicians (The O'Boys):
Format: DAT
Source: SBD
Generation: 0
Length: 100
Date: 7/30/94
Location: Frontier Ranch, Etna, OH
Set list:
  1. Blue Night
  2. Big Night (Bill Monroe tune; featuring Hicks)
  3. * Cora Is Gone
  4. * Sweet Sunny South
  5. ?Get That Grass Very Blue
  6. Home Sweet Home
  7. Cheeseballs In Cowtown
  8. * Walk The Way The Wind Blows
  9. Flora, The Lily Of The West
  10. Hold To A Dream
  11. Instrumental (from Fleck's CD "Drive")
  12. ?I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open From Now On (Flatt & Scruggs)
  13. * Wichita
  14. * That's What I Like About You
  15. * Untold Stories
  16. * Whitewater

    Encore:

  17. Instrumental
  18. Instrumental
  19. ?Get Down On Your Knees And Pray
  20. ?A Hundred Years From Now

    * = w/ Mollie O'Brien.

Note: w/ Béla Fleck, Bobby Hicks, Tony Rice & Mark Schatz.
Title: Strawberry Festival
Format: CD, DAT
Source: DSBD
Generation: 0
Length: 60
Date: 8/29/97
Location: Amy's Orchid Café, Camp Mather, CA
Set list:
  1. Orphan Girl (w/ Emmylou Harris)
  2. ?I've Got The Blues
  3. Forever Young (Dylan)
  4. ?My Eyes Take Me Back To The Scene Of Love
  5. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Dylan)
  6. ?Falling In Love
  7. Far Far Away
  8. Darling (Beatles)
  9. Remember Me

    Encore:

  10. Just Call Me Angel (chorus)
  11. Out On The Rolling Sea
Note: w/ Mollie O'Brien & The O'Boys.
Title: Wings & Strings Festival
Format: DAT
Source: DSBD
Generation: 0
Length: 85
Date: 11/8/97
Location: Polk City, FL
Set list:
  1. Roving Gambler
  2. Cold Rain & Snow
  3. Cluck Old Hen
  4. The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake
  5. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
  6. Walls Of Time
  7. Sail Away Ladies
  8. I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome
  9. Land Of The Navajo
Note: w/ Jerry Douglas, Peter Rowan & Mark Schatz.
Title: Merlefest
Format: DAT
Source: DAud: Schoeps MK4 > Denekes P/S > Zefiro Inbox > Sony TCD-D8 @ 48k, Up Front/Center
Generation: 0
Length: 60
Date: 4/24/98
Location: Watson Stage, Wilkesboro, NC
Set list:
  1. Oxford Town
  2. I Like The Way You Cook
  3. How Come I Ain't Dead
  4. * Out On The Rolling Sea
  5. River Of Blood
  6. One Drop Of Rain >
  7. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  8. Things In Life
  9. # Daddy's On The Roof Again
  10. Desperately Missing You
  11. When No One's Around >
  12. Will The Circle Be Unbroken

    Encore:

  13. # Climbin' Up A Mountain
The Tim O'Brien Band: * = w/ John Cowan.
# = w/ Dirk Powell.
Title: Strawberry Festival Midnight Jam
Format: CD
Source: FM
Generation: 0
Length: 60
Date: 5/23/98
Location: Amy's Orchid Café, Camp Mather, CA
Set list:
  1. Instrumental
  2. ?Soles Of My Feet Are Burning
  3. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Dylan)
  4. I Can't Get The Fact That You Left Me Through The Right Side Of My Brain
  5. ?The River Is Wide (or Get Down On Your Knees And Pray)
  6. Tombstone Blues (Dylan)
  7. Million Dollar Bash (Dylan)
  8. ?When I Do My Time
  9. Instrumental
  10. Senor (Dylan)

    Encore:

  11. Take Me In Your Lifeboat

Format: DAT
Source: DSBD
Generation: 0
Length: 120 (encore cut)
Date: 5/30/98
Location: Station Inn, Nashville, TN
Set list:
  1. ?Rambling Kind (For Nellie Kane?)
  2. Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
  3. Papa's On The Housetop
  4. ?The River Is Wide
  5. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  6. You Lead Me Down A One Way Street
  7. Country Blues (by Dock Boggs)
  8. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Dylan)
  9. Million Dollar Bash (Dylan)
  10. It's The Whiskey That Eases The Pain (Scott on vocals; written by his dad)
  11. California Blues
  12. ?See What The Lord Has Done
  13. Maggie's Farm (Dylan)
  14. Instrumental (featuring Malone's drums)
  15. The Ballad Of Martha White (for Roy Huskey)
  16. Instrumental
  17. Holy Ghost Building
  18. Banjo Clark
  19. I Can't Get The Fact You Left Me Through The Right Side Of My Brain
  20. Mansion On The Hill (Since My Baby Is Gone) (Hank Williams)
  21. When There's No One's Around >
  22. Will The Circle Be Unbroken? (w/ Ray Bonneville on harmonica)

    Encore:

  23. Jonah And The Whale (cut)
Note: Darrell Scott on guitar & bass, Stuart Duncan on fiddle
& Kenny Malone on drums.
Format: CD
Source: SBD
Generation: 0
Length: 140
Date: 7/7/99
Location: Station Inn, Nashville, TN
Set list:
    *** CD 1/Set I ***
  1. Willow Gardens
  2. A Mountaineer Is Always Free
  3. Lost Little Children
  4. Ireland's Green Shore
  5. Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
  6. If I Can't Live Without Her
  7. California Blues
  8. Pistol Packin' Mama
  9. Skillet Good And Greasy
  10. Maggie's Farm (Dylan)
  11. Man Gave Names To All The Animals (Dylan)
  12. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  13. House Of God
  14. Wandering

    *** CD 2/Set II ***

  15. Talkin' Cavin Blues
  16. Working On A Building
  17. Climbing Up A Mountain
  18. * Raleigh & Spencer
  19. * Sin City
  20. * Graveyard Shift
  21. Country Blues
  22. River Of Blood
  23. Into The West
  24. When No One's Around >
  25. Will The Circle Be Unbroken

    Encore:

  26. Window Up Above
  27. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning
Musicians:
Format: DAT
Source: DAud: AT 853 > M1
Generation: 0
Length: 110
Date: 6/9/00
Location: Temple of Music & Art, Tucson, AZ
Set list: As NewGrange:
Title: Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Format: CD, DAT
CD Source: Aud: MBHO 603-200 > Aerco MP2 > Sonic Sense AD2K > D8
DAT Source: DAud: Neuman 184 > Sound Devices MP2 > GP ADC-20 > M1
Generation: 0
Length: 90, 95
Date: 6/24/01
Location: Town Park, Telluride, CO
Set list:
    *** CD 1 ***
  1. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning
  2. Long Time Gone
  3. Walk Beside Me
  4. A Mountaineer Is Always Free
  5. Brother Wind
  6. Running Out Of Memory For You (based loosely on a Bill Monroe song)
  7. Hop High My Lulu Gal (Dirk Powell)
  8. ~sales pitch~
  9. River Take Me

    *** CD 2 ***

  10. Family Tree (Darrell Scott)
  11. The Holy Well
  12. When You Come Back Down (Nickel Creek)
  13. It's A Great Day To Be Alive (Darrell Scott)
  14. A House Of Gold
  15. The Tide Flows Into Milltown (windnoise)
  16. Man Gave Names To All The Animals (Bob Dylan)

    First Encore:

  17. I've Endured

    Second Encore:

  18. He Had A Long Chain On

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