Can anyone help me identify a show I had on cassette & lost? I don't know the year, but I think the venue was a place called the Seafarers' Hall or something like that, maybe in San Fran. Arlo does one of his dad's songs about a ship going down (the Lusitania?) that was pared down from over a hundred verses, one for each man lost.

This is a really great show & I'd dearly love to replace it on C.D., once I figure out when & where it was from.

Thanks,

Deportee

"The Sinking of the Reuben James"

didn't see a listing in California
http://www.arlo.net/rtr/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&Timestamp=&Userid=&ID=&Venue=&Location=&Source=---&Source_Detail=&Date=&Grade=---&Setlist=sinking&Description=&Length=&Generation=---&keyword=&mh=25&sb=---&so=ascend&format=1&view_records=View+Records

Although, I haven't listed it on the Registry, the show you are looking for is probably this one:
ARLO GUTHRIE - MARITIME HALL - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 22, 1998
I vaguely remembered this recording, so I went digging through some boxes in the basement and found a copy, recalling that this show circulated (possibly only briefly) on cassette (approx. 135m) shortly after the performance date. My copy is from a somewhat rough audience recording, listenable but not of particularly great sound quality. Perhaps your copy was better, assuming that this is the show you remember! The set list for the Maritime Hall performance (assuming my notes in scribbled pencil are accurate) was:
Chilling Of the Evening/My Front Pages/Ring Around The Rosy Rag/Percy's Song/1913 Massacre/Mooses Come Walking/Alice's Restaurant/Ocean Crossing/If You Would Just Drop By/Wake Up Dead/Key To The Highway/The Sinking Of The Reuben James/City Of New Orleans/This Land Is Your Land/Coming Into Los Angeles/Amazing Grace.