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Elsah- Varsity Theatre, Baton Rouge La 4/28/05 Xfer from Hi8 Master Enhanced alt.country

In case you missed it on the first Elsah post, here is some info about the band: “Elsah formed around singer-songwriter Neil Werries in St. Louis in 1997. Stories of growing up in rural and small town central Illinois along with a love of bands like Uncle Tupelo, the Meat Puppets and Blue Mountain inspire Elsah’s blend of punk, rock and old time country music. Werries relocated to Baton Rouge in 2001, continuing to write and perform with likeminded musicians. Elsah’s three-guitar front – Werries on acoustic, Sam “Boykin” Short and Glenn Harris on lead – is rounded out by Nick Butitta (bass) and Chad Townsend (drums). Elsah has remained as a standard bearer of Alt-country music throughout the Gulf South for over 20 years.”

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Cony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Elsah- Thirsty Tiger Tavern, Baton Rouge La Acoustic Set Alt Country Americana xfer from Hi8 master

This one, from Neil Werries’ collection, was an absolute pain to deal with. It was super dark on stage, but when I tried to perform a full brightness/contrast enhancement, the screen would flash dark and light to the point of annoyance. This was the best I could do with it. At least it sounds good, so you can treat it as an audio post if you’d like. The acoustic set highlights the quality of the songs here.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Elsah- Magnolia, Baton Rouge La. mid 2000s? w Chuck Prophet? xfer from Hi8 Master tape

After a pretty insane schedule (Work, Kids, Sports, etc) over the past few months, things seem to be settling back down. Well, at least I had some time to organize my desk (it was embarrassing) and I found a bunch of videos I had not posted yet.
This tape is labeled “Elsah Magnolia w/Chuck Prophet”. I don’t recognize Chuck in this video, so maybe Neil Werries means that they opened for Chuck? Don’t know, but this one sounds nice.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Cony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Elsah- North Gate Tavern, Baton Rouge La 9/15/04 xfer from Hi8 Master tape enhanced alt country

Happy Sunday everyone! While we try to get Neil Werries’ multicamera angles of The Gourds to work together for edits (it has been a long painful process), let’s post a video of his band. I think this is the longest set that he had- almost 2 hours. There is a 5-10 minute part of the video where the camera gets bumped and is pointed at the ceiling, but that gets corrected2. Sounds pretty good.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell Workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements/neat video

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Elsah- Chealsea’s, Baton Rouge La. 8/14/04 xfer from hi8 Master Tape Enhanced Alt.Country

Here’s a surprise mid-week video instead of the typical audio. It’s a band that my friend Neil Werries is in called Elsah. Here’s a quick bio of the band:

“Elsah formed around singer-songwriter Neil Werries in St. Louis in 1997. Stories of growing up in rural and small town central Illinois along with a love of bands like Uncle Tupelo, the Meat Puppets and Blue Mountain inspire Elsah’s blend of punk, rock and old time country music. Werries relocated to Baton Rouge in 2001, continuing to write and perform with likeminded musicians. Elsah’s three-guitar front – Werries on acoustic, Sam “Boykin” Short and Glenn Harris on lead – is rounded out by Nick Butitta (bass) and Chad Townsend (drums). Elsah has remained as a standard bearer of Alt-country music throughout the Gulf South for over 20 years.”

They sound good- expect more posts about these guys in the future.

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV460 Firewire into Workstation
Enhanced(degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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Elsah- Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge La 4/14/04 xfer from Hi8 Master Tape Enhanced Americana

Here’s another Neil Werries creation- a 2+ hour show from the Spanish Moon in Baton Rouge. They must have had a pretty good following to headline that size venue- touring acts such as Redd Kross w/ The Melvins have played there.
The date on the tape said 4/14. I am not sure if that meant April of 2014, or April 14 of an unidentified year.
The denoise cleaned this one up really well.

Ah, Neil provided some more info about this show:
2004 best I can figure. One of the first shows after relocating to Louisiana.
Paul Johnson – Guitar
Damen Williams – Bass
Brian Debate – Drums

Anna Byars Band plays from 1:18:17

Recorded by: Neil Werries
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Cony DCR-TRV460 firewire into Dell workstation
Enhanced (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video

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