The Mid-Winter Yeow from the Opera House in Columbia, California from sometime around 2003.
Archive Recording Recovery and Transfer by TedToob!
>In a spat of Shelter-in-place home cleaning, I stumbled upon a box full of Sony-MiniDiscs - an ancient, but remnant artifact of the early digital age. After crowd-sourcing a mini-disc player via Facebook I transferred what I could off these digital fossils.
The jackpot of the stash was this not great sounding, but very entertaining, live recording of the Mid-Winter Yeow from the Opera House in Columbia, California featuring old friends, Cactus Bob Cole and his lovely musical and life partner, Prairie Flower (Chris) as well as Chris’s talented son, Michael P. Kennedy who form the fantastic acoustic trio: Faux Renwah along with other fantastically talented Sonora Counthy (Foothills) acts like Doo Doo Wah, Sourdough Slim and Blackwood Tom, Marsha Goodman Reeves, Julio in Glasses and many others.
Being an addled old hippie, I honestly cannot recall the date of this actual event. If I were to guess I’d say February of 2003……
The negative: I don’t think it’s all there - I distinctly recall one of the funniest songs of the whole night, delivered by Doo Doo Wah was their tribute to CalTrans……
The Positive: What is there is great and makes for some fun listening!
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1 of 3:
01 Hello and Welcome to the Winter Night Yeow
02 The Gospel Plough
03. Dead Hoarse Trampoline
04. The Clock Strikes Ten
05. Worthy of Estimation
06. Waterbound
07. Don't Pet the Dog
08. Who Let Florida Vote
2 of 3:
09. Barnacle Bill the Sailor
10. Yodel
11. Dusty Boots
12. Conastogas Ho - Wahoo….
13. The Arkansas Sheiks
14. Looking for her Cajun Mama
15. The Old Black Truck
16. Black Crow Blues
17. Wait for Nancy
18. Sunday Blues
3 of 3
19. The Wild and Reckless Cowboy from the West
20. The Gal I Left Bebind Me
21. Ghost Riders in the Sky
22. Copenhagen
23. Your on Hold
24. Perry's Family Restaurant - Sweet Pea Septic Service
25. Sierra Veterinary Care
26. That's What's the Matter With Men
27. We've Drunk Every Beer
28. Down the Old Plank Road
29. Cool Clear Water
30. Goodbye Miss Liza
31. The Yow Anthem
32. Fever
33. Never Grow Old
34. Auld Lang Syne