Deer Tick‘s John McCauley is certainly an artist dedicated to his craft. At Mercury Lounge on Sunday night, McCauley fought his way through a full opening set despite having suffered the last two weeks with strep throat. The strain in his voice was evident, but nevertheless John worked Deer Tick through a strong set of material from their outstanding debut release War Elephant, along with several new songs and two appropriate covers. When Deer Tick performed John Prine‘s semi-obscure classic “Mexican Home”, it made perfect sense. As McCauley has been compared with everyone from Dylan to Tweedy, it seems that subtle influences of a underrated performer like Prine are actually more accurate — a poignant lyricist and dedicated performer without pretense or artifice.
We received advance permission to record the Deer Tick set from John. The equipment was set up in the perfect location from when we saw the Vanderslice soundcheck. This recording is perhaps a bit heavy on the drums as a result of the house mix, but is otherwise a fine representation of this outstanding artist. Enjoy!
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Deer Tick
2008-03-30
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board
Neumann KM-150’s > Monster Cable > Apogee Mini-Me > digital coax > M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 > 24bit 48kHz wav > Soundforge 8.0 (level adjustments, downsample 16/44) > CD Wave 1.75 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Many thanks to John for permission to record.
Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2008-04-02
Setlist:
01 [introduction]
02 Art Isn’t Real
03 [banter]
04 Baltimore Blues No. 1
05 Mexican Home (John Prine)
06 Ashamed
07 Little White Lies
08 [banter]
09 Straight Into A Storm*
10 [banter]
11 Spend the Night
12 You Don’t Know How We Did It*
13 [banter]
14 The Ghost
15 Dirty Dishes
16 LaBamba (Blue Moon introduction)
*song title approximations
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Deer Tick, visit their website, visit their myspace page, and purchase War Elephant from Itunes, or emusic, or order it directly from Feow Records when its back in stock.
Deer Tick return to NYC later this month for two dates:
Apr 12 2008 8:00pm Union Hall Brooklyn
Apr 13 2008 8:00pm Knitting Factory NYC
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