Archive of live music performances local to Northwest Iowa.
Some of our listeners prefer to hear “just the songs” from a performance and some folks would like to hear a stream that includes all the banter, tuning and gaps just as they occurred.
We can do that. Here’s Todd Partridge & Friends on Easter Sunday, 2023 two different ways:
Set One (complete): click here
Set Two (complete): click here
Set Three (complete): click here
Rainy Day Music Tip Jar:
Vee Ellsbury, of Wiitch Tiit, Eleven Moons, and other bands, turned in this rendition of the Hunter/Garcia tune “Loser” at Byron’s Bar in Pomeroy on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 in the third set.
The night was billed as Todd Partridge And Friends, and the friends did Partridge solo tunes, Matt Arthur solo tunes, and a reunion of the King Of The Tramps. “Loser” came almost at the end of the night, and the crowd’s noise level was getting higher, which our mics faithfully captured, but yours truly thought it was a stellar performance.
It isn’t really unusual for artists to work in a Dead tune or two into their gigs at Byron’s, the place being “The Deadhead Capitol Of Iowa”, but they’re often not songs in their regular rotations and mistakes do happen. Vee demonstrated that this one IS well within her wheelhouse, to understate that.
I stole her photo from her Facebook profile: she attributes it to Josh Weitzel, whom I do not know. I beg forgiveness for the theft but I can’t find my own photos from the night (I live in chaos).
The exquisite violin is Kathryn Severing Fox.
(recordist’s note: Jerry Garcia didn’t always include the “sweet susie” phrase in live performances. As far as I’m concerned, this is the authentic version.)
Players here are :
Carson Holtorf, Fort Dodge, guitar
Dan Zehr, Manson: Dobro, harp
Cinda Heinrichs, Spencer, cajon
Well, first of all, they’re not tapes, but you knew that.
They’re really lost, though.
We were there in plenty of time, which turned out to be wise, and I took the pole I sometimes use to record bands to get up in air somewhat away from the extraneous noise (talking).
But I had failed to consider the possibility that my sound card might fill up and stop working, which it did twice. There were a couple of other pole-bumping issues but right now I don’t know whether they impacted the recording.
Turns out, I may never know what happened because the Zoom recording device I use vanished somewhere along the line of the return trip.
Of course, that’s impossible, but it happened.
So have obtained audio from two other Byron’s tapers, just to fill in the gap because this was a spectacular show.
Cream Faith is: Kofi Baker, Ric Fierabracci, and Bobby Messano
The Weary Ramblers, Chad Elliott and Kathryn Severing Fox, made their Spencer, Iowa debut on March 10, 2023 at Century Farms Distillery.
Listen to Set One at this link
Listen to Set Two Part One at this link
Listen to Set Two Part Two at this link
Full Sets:
Individual tracks:
