Becky & The 48's (Early Set)
Rec Park
Milaca, MN
July 24th, 2026
This is a "Midwest Sounds" recording (MWS569)
Lineage: LyxPro SDPC-2 mics > Zoom H4Essential (32-Bit Float) + Soundboard > Tascam DR-60D
-Feel free to remaster, share freely anywhere else, or convert to MP3. Please don't sell it or profit from it in any way. If you enjoy this show, support the artist by buying/streaming their music, attending a show or buying merch.
-Thanks as always to Becky and The High 48's for allowing me to record.
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More pictures here: Link
https://www.beckyschlegel.com
https://thehigh48s.com
1. Intro
2. Drifter Like Me
3. Crocodile Man
4. So Embarrassing
5. Have a Feast Here Tonight (Rabbit in a Log) (Trad.)
6. I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (Buck Owens and His Buckaroos cover)
7. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells cover)
8. Great Northern Railroad
9. Laramie
10. Leaving (James King cover)
11. Cluck Old Hen (Trad.) > Rocky Island (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys cover)
12. Outro
Becky Schlegel- Vocals, Guitar
Clint Birtzer- Guitar, Vocals
Anthony Ihrig- Banjo
Eric Christopher- Mandolin, Fiddle
Rich Casey- Bass
https://thehigh48s.com
1. Intro
2. Drifter Like Me
3. Crocodile Man
4. So Embarrassing
5. Have a Feast Here Tonight (Rabbit in a Log) (Trad.)
6. I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (Buck Owens and His Buckaroos cover)
7. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells cover)
8. Great Northern Railroad
9. Laramie
10. Leaving (James King cover)
11. Cluck Old Hen (Trad.) > Rocky Island (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys cover)
12. Outro
Becky Schlegel- Vocals, Guitar
Clint Birtzer- Guitar, Vocals
Anthony Ihrig- Banjo
Eric Christopher- Mandolin, Fiddle
Rich Casey- Bass
Archive.org / Google Drive
The High 48s team-up with acclaimed Minnesota singer and songwriter Becky Schlegel, combining their high-energy modern bluegrass sound with Schlegel’s soulful singing and her sophisticated take on three-chords-and-the-truth country songwriting.
“We were Becky fans long before we started the band, but it took us a few years to work up the courage to ask if she had any songs for us,” said the 48s’ fiddler and mandolinist, Eric Christopher. And as it turned out, she did have some songs. Lots of them. The 48s recorded Becky Schlegel’s “Baltimore and Ohio,” which she penned with Nashville songwriter Craig Market, for their 2014 release Great Northern Railroad, and “Christmas Every Day” for 2016’s Holidays with the High 48s.
But each time they picked a song for the record, there were many more gems left on the cutting room floor — not enough room on the album. According to Christopher, “That was our first inkling that there might be more to this collaboration than borrowing a song every couple of years.” So, in the summer of 2023, Becky and the 48s released “Laramie,” their first collaborative single. “Laramie,” a Becky Schlegel original, tells a story of lost love set against the windswept plains of eastern Wyoming. It features Becky on guitar and lead vocals and the multi-talented Kenny Wilson on pedal steel guitar.
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Tapers notes: Recording 5 of 9 from Recfest 2026. It's always great to see Becky and The High 48's, they compliment each other's sound perfectly. This was the first of their two sets, this one was a bit shorter as there was a ceremony honoring the founder of RecFest in between sets. But, they would come back later in the day and close out the night with a longer set.
“We were Becky fans long before we started the band, but it took us a few years to work up the courage to ask if she had any songs for us,” said the 48s’ fiddler and mandolinist, Eric Christopher. And as it turned out, she did have some songs. Lots of them. The 48s recorded Becky Schlegel’s “Baltimore and Ohio,” which she penned with Nashville songwriter Craig Market, for their 2014 release Great Northern Railroad, and “Christmas Every Day” for 2016’s Holidays with the High 48s.
But each time they picked a song for the record, there were many more gems left on the cutting room floor — not enough room on the album. According to Christopher, “That was our first inkling that there might be more to this collaboration than borrowing a song every couple of years.” So, in the summer of 2023, Becky and the 48s released “Laramie,” their first collaborative single. “Laramie,” a Becky Schlegel original, tells a story of lost love set against the windswept plains of eastern Wyoming. It features Becky on guitar and lead vocals and the multi-talented Kenny Wilson on pedal steel guitar.
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Tapers notes: Recording 5 of 9 from Recfest 2026. It's always great to see Becky and The High 48's, they compliment each other's sound perfectly. This was the first of their two sets, this one was a bit shorter as there was a ceremony honoring the founder of RecFest in between sets. But, they would come back later in the day and close out the night with a longer set.
"Got a mind to ramble, got a mind to roam
I'm travelin' light and I'm slow coming home"
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