Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore at Acme Records in Milwaukee on October 17, 2019

When a certain amount of time passes after a show has been recorded, I start to find it more and more difficult to post the recording. It's a bit analogous to how I feel when I've waited too long to reply to a letter or email. I start to feel that any excuses I would like to make about the delay are inadequate.

For this show, we had a bit of a worldwide pandemic occurring a few months afterward, which put my motivation to post into the dumpster. In any event, I thought that the 5-year anniversary of the show would be a nice excuse to share this amazing performance with you.

Meg and Mary have long been favorites at Acme, and the excitement was definitely there as soon as their album as released. It's filled with really lovely madrigal-like moments juxtaposed with the avant garden or even psychedelic. When their tour was announced the show quickly sold out.

Buy their album here.

Recording information:

MEG BAIRD


MARY LATTIMORE

2019-10-17

Milwaukee,WI at Acme Records

Meg Baird: guitar and vocals

Mary Lattimore: harp and electronics

Setlist:

01 Between Two Worlds (6:37)

02 In Cedars (6:02)

03 Banter (1:03)

04 Damaged Sunset (9:09)

05 Painter of Tygers (7:14)

06 Fair Annie [Traditional] (9:51)

07 Wrecking Ball [Neil Young] (6:47)

Total time = 46:43

Microphones: Beyerdynamic MC930 pair at stage lip

Additional source: mono soundboard

Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6

Software: Audacity, Fission, xAct

Recorded with explicit artist permission by Richard Hayes

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Meg Baird at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee on November 2, 2022

During the last week of October and first week of November 2022, Meg Baird and Chris Forsyth toured the east coast and midwest with a unique concept: they shared the same rhythm section consisting of Doug McCombs on bass and Ryan Jewell on drums. Meg's band also featured Charlie Saufley (a fellow member of the band Heron Oblivion) on guitar.

 

Purchase Meg's most recent album here.

   
You can hear and download Chris' performance from that same evening here.

   
Recording information:

   

MEG BAIRD

2022-11-02

Milwaukee, WI at Cactus Club

Meg Baird: vocals, guitar, keyboards

Charlie Saufley: guitar

Doug McCombs: bass

Ryan Jewell: drums

Chris Forsyth: guitar on Track 9

Setlist:

01 Ashes, Ashes (6:05)

02 Mosquito Hawks (3:21)

03 Back to You (4:40)

04 Star Hill Song (6:15)

05 Twelve Saints (5:45)

06 Manfield and Cyclops (6:28)

07 Ship Captains (5:25)

08 Unknown (5:42)

09 Will You Follow Me Home (8:15)

microphone: Line Audio CM3 in ORTF

additional source: soundboard feed from Alex

recorder: Sound Devices MixPre6ii at 32/96

software: Audacity, Fission, xAct

Total time = 51:56

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320 kbps mp3 files (226 MB)

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