Merle Haggard & The Strangers
Carson Four Rivers Center
Paducah, KY
April 26, 2012

** 16 BIT **

Source: Sonic Studios DSM-6P w/3-way lo-cut filter, position unknown (most likely @ 80hz, middle setting) > Edirol R-09 @ 16 bit/44.1 kHz
Mastering: .WAV > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); Sony Wave Hammer plugin (attenuate loud crowd screams; minor edits, normalize, & fades] > CDWav tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.0.18 (tagging)
Location: Upper right balcony, back row, up against the wall
Recorded & transferred by: Steve "ballsdeep" Hagar
Mastered by: Dennis Orr

Setlist:
01 Merle Intro: Hammin' It Up
02 I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
03 (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
04 I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
05 Silver Wings
06 Working Man Blues
07 Today I Started Loving You Again
08 Ramblin' Fever
09 Kern River
10 That's The Way Love Goes
11 If I Could Only Fly
12 Folsom Prison Blues
13 The Way I Am
14 Mama Tried
15 Back To Earth
16 Are The Good Times Really Over? (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)
17 If We Make It Through December
18 Chat
19 The Bottle Let Me Down
20 The Farmer's Daughter
21 Big City
22 Runaway Mama
23 Sing Me Back Home
24 They're Tearin' The Labor Camps Down
25 Footlights
26 Chat
27 Working In Tennessee
28 Take Me Back To Tulsa
29 Chat
30 Okie From Muskogee
31 Crowd/Outro

Merle Haggard - lead vocals & guitar

The Strangers (not introduced, but likely lineup based on available videos of the show)
Renato Caranto – tenor saxophone
Doug Colosio – keyboards
Jim Christie – drums
Floyd Domino – keyboards
Ben Haggard – electric guitar & backing vocals
Dana Haggard – backing vocals
Norman Hamlet – steel guitar
Scott Joss – fiddle, mandolin, guitars, & backing vocals
Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar

Mastering Notes:
Steve tells an obnoxious fan to shut up during "Okie From Muskogee".

Show Notes:
This was a weird show, crammed between a Cowboy Junkies gig in Nashville, and Van Halen, also in Nashville. Everyone wants to go hang in Paducah, KY for the day! I went with my buddy Berry, he filmed from the front row, I filmed from the back row of the balcony. Obnoxious screaming bitch to my left. She would not shut the fuck up. But sometimes that's just how it is. Merle was Merle, it was good to see him once.

He's not very haggard; nor is he from Muskogee. His name is Dennis. He takes all this crap I've taped and/or collected over the years and makes it palatable for human earhole consumption. Give him thanks for his time. A waving middle finger for myself is sufficient.

Just took a gander, there's lot more in the vault.

A *LOT* more.

---ballsdeep OUT!!!!