Category: Rayborn Live Archive

The fifth volume of live recordings from taper Cory Rayborn for Aquarium Drunkard.

Featuring: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Mary Lattimore, Jack Rose, Daniel Bachman, Silkworm y mas …

The fourth volume of live recordings from taper Cory Rayborn for Aquarium Drunkard.

Featuring: New Bums, Chuck Johnson, Steve Gunn, PJ Harvey, Dirty Three, and more …

The third volume of live recordings from taper Cory Rayborn for Aquarium Drunkard.

Fifteen tracks, including: Silver Jews, Lambchop, Mission of Burma, Tortoise, Magnolia Electric Co., David Byrne & more …

Here’s another batch of recordings from my close to quarter century (!?) as a recreational live audio taper, primarily based in central North Carolina. Recent email conversations with Justin Gage, discussing the depth and breadth of my live archive, sowed the idea for what you will find below – a group of tunes conceptualized as if each were a block of radio station programming. Some thoughts / recollections of the specific shows these tracks were culled from are as follows…

I can still see it now: a black and white profile photo of Michael Stipe on a stark white background, via R.E.M.’s Mumble LP – a bootleg comprised of material […]