Delbert McClinton Cruise Cafe Nov. 13th 1989


Folks, it's celebration time!
This week is the 25th anniversary of the opening of the now long defunct Cruise Cafe in Oslo Norway. Cruise had a 10 year ++ run at booking some of the hottest bands in Oslo and making the best burgers. The owner and main booking honcho, Svein Eriksen was a huge fan of Delbert McClinton, so this leak is for you Svein.
Listening back through this tape, I'm amazed at how good it was! What I remember from the gig, from a house soundmans point of view was not quite so rozy. The band brought in a large venue production to a small club, we had to make the stage bigger, bring in an additional monitor mixer that I wound up running, sitting cramped in front of the subwoofers, yeah, it sounded like hell from where I was sitting, but I managed to tweak this mix off the monitor board and it's not bad!
Anyhow Delbert is still rocking, he's won three grammy's and is an act to catch if you happen upon a town the man is in. Do it!



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Delbert McClinton  Vocals & Harmonica
Steve Hermann Trumpet
Don Wise Sax
Jimmy Johnson Bass
Nick Connolly Keys 
Dave Millsap Guitar
Wesley Starr Drums