Saltydog, Live at Sacred Heart Music Center, Duluth, MN- 5/15/26

Saltydog
Sacred Heart Music Center
Duluth, MN
May 15th, 2026

This is a "Midwest Sounds" recording (MWS537/538)

Lineage: LyxPro SDPC-2 mics > Zoom H4Essential (32-Bit Float)

-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 Saltydog for allowing me to record.

More pictures here: Link

Lanue

https://www.lanuemusic.com

1. Intro
2. Pull Through
3. ?
4. Song for Luella
5. What I Love the Most
6. ?
7. Fire In My Mind
8. Oil Fields
9. July
10. Sweet Multitudes
11. ?
12. Days in the Sun

Sarah Krueger (Lanue)- Vocals, Guitar
Steve Garrington- Bass
Ben Lester- Pedal Steel Guitar
Sean Carey- Drums
Paul Brandt- Piano

Archive.org / Google Drive

Singer-songwriter Sarah Krueger founded Lanue in Duluth and released a self-titled debut album in 2021. Krueger has a knack for straightforward and earnest songwriting while maintaining a vocal delivery that sits like honey over layers of warm synths, guitars, and percussion. Ranging from confessional to nostalgic, each track is brightened by a lush lift while continuing to rest inside the framework of the folk tradition.

Krueger relocated to her hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and continues to push the Lanue sound forward.

Saltydog

https://saltydogband.com

1. Intro
2. Amazing Grace (John Newton cover) > I Saw the Light (Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys cover)
3. ?
4. Come Home Soon > You on Me
5. The Jambalamba
6. Yeehaw
7. Rodeo
8. This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie cover)
9. The Cleaning
10. Then It Do
11. Throw Me in the River
12. ?
13. My Sisters and Brothers (In Christ) (The Sensational Nightingales cover)
14. ?

Jacob Mahon - Vocals, Guitar
Owen Mahon - Drums, Vocals
Sam Deters - Guitar
Calvin Lund - Bass
Bryan Johnson - Conga/Vocals
Gavin St. Clair- Keyboard

Archive.org / Google Drive

Saltydog is a funk jam Improvisational exploration that takes the audience & band on a journey through their playfully crafted folk driven tunes inspired by the likes of everyone from The Talking Heads, The Band, those classic country and jam band staples along with everyone in between.

The band spawned on the banks of Duluth’s ice covered stones by brothers Jacob and Owen Mahon. This midwestern psychedelic cowboy review features Calvin (Calzone) Lund, Lefty Johnson, Gavin St. Clair, and Sam Deters.

The group released its third album “Runnin’ Again” earlier this year.

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Tapers notes: The last time I saw Lanue was 4 years ago, so I was looking forward to this show quite a bit. She sang a few new songs, which were about or for her husband who had passed away suddenly a little over 2 years ago. You could hear a pin drop during those songs, and she received a standing ovation at the end of the show. It almost felt as though the crowd was saying "we're with you", you could really see the impact it had on Sarah. The Saltydog set was definitely one of the more unique ones I've seen them play, some new songs, some songs I've never heard them play before, and a conga line led by Jacob at the end that went out the front of the building and came back in on the other side. Overall, it was a really great night, and one that reminds you why live music is so important.

"Got a mind to ramble, got a mind to roam
I'm travelin' light and I'm slow coming home"

Lanue- Live at Sacred Heart Music Center, Duluth, MN- 10/20/22

Lanue
Sacred Heart Music Center
Duluth, MN
Oct. 20th, 2022

This is a "Midwest Sounds" recording (MWS268/269)

Lineage: Audience Recording using Zoom H2 internal mics > SD Card > PC > Mastered in Adobe Audition > Track splitting using CD Wave Editor > Compressed to FLAC Level 8 using dBpoweramp > Tagged with MP3 Tag

-Feel free to re-master, share freely anywhere else, convert to MP3, just never ever sell it. Also, if you like this show, please support the artist by buying/streaming their music, buying a ticket to a show or buying merch.

Two of Minnesota’s best cutting-edge songwriters, Duluth-based Lanue and Minneapolis-based Humbird, share the beautiful Sacred Heart altar stage in a special one-night-only, live-audience performance at 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 20.

More pictures here: Link

Humbird

https://www.humbirdmusic.com/

1. Intro
2. May
3. Standing in the Way
4. Persephone
5. Plum Sky
6. Heavy
7. Summer Storm for Charlotte
8. 48 Hours
9. Cornfields and Roadkill
10. Radiator
11. Quickest Way
12. Pink Moon for John Prine
13. On the Day We Are Together Again

Siri Undlin- Vocals, Guitar
Pat Keen- Bass
Pete Quirsfeld- Drums

Archive.org / Google Drive

Inspired by the crystalline chill of the north country she calls home in Minnesota, Humbird combines a wintry longing with the warmth of a familiar folktale. Humbird’s music moves between experimental folk and environmental Americana to embrace the unexpected. The music invites a refreshing dissonance into the house. It leaves bread crumbs along the path and reflects light back at the stars.

Siri Undlin witnessed the power of storytelling in her childhood home and began writing music and performing in church choirs and in Irish ensembles from a young age. Her voice, which contains the unwavering fortitude of hymnal melodies, reveals her traditional background.

In 2019, Humbird released the critically acclaimed, debut full-length, Pharmakon, which introduced us to Humbird’s songcraft and harmonic folk style.

Lanue

https://www.lanuemusic.com/

1. Intro
2. September
3. Oil Fields (cuts out)
4. What I Love The Most (missing)
5. Pull Through (missing)
6. Mississippi (cuts in)
7. When It Don't Come Easy (Patty Griffin cover)
8. Days in the Sun
9. Mexico
10. July
11. Fire in My Mind
12. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young cover)
13. Tomorrow

Lanue (Sarah Krueger)- Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Steve Garrington- Bass
Lars-Erik Larson- Drums
Ben Lester- Pedal Steel Guitar

Archive.org / Google Drive

Feeling detached from her previously released work, Sarah Krueger assembled a cast of collaborators in 2021 to help flesh out a collection of new songs that would later become the catalyst for Lanue.
Culled from the title of a poem that found its way to Krueger from a thrift store shelf, Lanue stands firmly in front of a fresh creative backdrop and boasts a more developed taste and sincerity than Krueger’s previous releases — both a welcome departure and anticipated return.

In Lanue’s self titled LP, Krueger continues to amplify her knack for straightforward and earnest songwriting while maintaining a vocal delivery that sits like honey over layers of warm synths, guitars, and percussion. Ranging from confessional to nostalgic, each track is brightened by a lush lift while continuing to rest inside the framework of the folk tradition.

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Tapers notes: This was a disappointing recording, I had an SD card error, so part of Lanue's set is missing here. Luckily, both sets were being streamed and are able to be watched in their entirety on YouTube, so it was a good lesson to replace SD cards regularly that didn't come at the cost of losing out on that part of the show completely. And of course, as to be expected, the stream has better audio quality as it's running off the SBD. But, I figured I'd share this source for documentation.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3eXAmcwQ0