[photo by Tim Besa]
The shortcut description of Wormburner the band is a cross between The Hold Steady and Camper Van Beethoven. The most striking aspect of the band is the Finn/Lowery styled matter-of-fact talking vocals of band leader Steve “Hank” Henry. In fact, the band’s 2006 debut album (A Hero’s Welcome) was produced by Camper’s David Lowery. But where Hold Steady can be aloof, and Camper sarcastic, Wormburner is a more sincere band than either of the comparisons. Hank’s lyrics are frank and often poignant slices of life that capture the ordinary lives of their protagonists. At Mercury Lounge on Friday last, Wormburner celebrated the vinyl release of their new album Placed by the Gideons at an event that also served as a holiday party for the band and their friends. As a tribute to the superb quality of the new album, the Gideons material highlighted the set, particularly “Pike City Proper” (streaming below) and “The Interstate”. In the spirit of the evening, the band closed the set with two holiday numbers.
I recorded this set with the Neumann microphones placed in the soundboard area and mixed with a soundboard feed. Unfortunately, the festive nature of the event led to a very high volume of crowd chatter which required me to mix the board feed at about 75%. As a result, the mix is typical for a board feed — vocal and kick-drum heavy with the instruments too far in the background. With that caveat, enjoy!
Stream: “Pike City Proper”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/W1021Wormburner1020/Pike%20City%20Proper.mp3]
Direct download of complete show in MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Wormburner
2010-12-10
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix
Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-12-22
Setlist:
[Total Time 48:28]
01 Stolen Tags
02 Sleepy Jane
03 Peekskill
04 A Hero’s Welcome
05 Astronauts
06 Muscle Car
07 Little Things
08 [banter]
09 Two Kinds of People
10 Pike City Proper
11 [banter2]
12 The Interstate
13 [banter3]
14 (Christmas) Bells of St. Ignatius
15 Holiday Road [Lindsey Buckingham]
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