Bonnie Raitt Sigma Sound Studios Rainbow Room, WMMR Philadelphia, PA, US February 22, 1972 Playlist: 01 [04:03] Mighty Tight Woman 02 [04:23] Rollin' & Tumblin' 03 [03:39] Anyday Woman 04 [03:43] Woman Be Wise 05 [02:57] Thank You 06 [03:38] Bluebird 07 [05:23] Finest Lovin' Man 08 [04:42] Big Road 09 [02:50] Stayed Too Long At The Fair 10 [04:04] Under The Falling Sky 11 [03:59] Walkin' Blues 12 [03:06] Can't Find My Way Home 13 [03:52] Richland Woman Blues 14 [03:32] Blender Blues 15 [01:04] Radio Jingle Promo 16 [02:50] Since I Fell For You Band Info: Bonnie Raitt - Guitar, piano, vocals Dan (Freebo) Freeberg - Bass T.J. Tindle - Guitar, harp John Davis - Harp NOTE: The following is offered for what it's worth. I make no claims as to the authenticity of it and I was not the person that heard "The Story". Ralph "The Story: Like any story passed on with some music this needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Here what was told to me and this is what I know. An intern at WMMR in the 80's recorded this show to an analog source. Being such a tremendous recording this individual longed to re-record the master reel straight to a digital source as they became increasingly popular in the early 90's. At this point the intern had moved on and no longer had this type of access. However, he remembered periodically that the studio or the station allowed access to the 'records room' for research activity. Posing as a university affiliate doing research on 70's radio advertising this individual gained access to the master reels with a portable Sony DAT deck. The room was laid out with shelves with tables on the far end with cassette decks, reel to reel and 'cart' type recorders. Unplugging the cart recorder and connecting the DAT deck history was then digitized. If you look at the timeline it was more than likely recorded with a Sony TCD D3. This early DAT deck was actually graced with a very nice A to D chip. I believe the same chip found in the Panasonic SV3700. Therefore a very nice digital transcript was made that day. At this time I was working at a mail order facility selling DAT tapes. Which at the time were very expensive, $12 or more per tape. The individual with this Bonnie recording told us the story above. Is it true? Who knows but he use to buy DAT tapes from us regularly. He made us a cassette of this famous recording and we bugged him to make us a DAT copy for months. He did not have the means to do DAT to DAT. On a visit to the 'store' in Stamford in 1992 we finally were able to make 1 DAT clone. I subsequently cloned that DAT. Most likely the clone was made between a Panasonic SV3700 and a Sony 59ES. But, possibly between 2 SV3700's. At the 'shop' we had so many DAT decks with many configurations. I have no doubt this is direct from the Pre-FM Reels and one listen and you will have no doubt either. Easily one of the finest recordings by any musician at any time."

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