The Band essentially went back to being the Hawks of the late '50s and early '60s on this album of cover tunes. They demonstrated considerable expertise on their versions of ock & roll and R&B standards like Clarence "Frogman" Henry's "Ain't Got No Home," Chuck Berry's "The Promised Land," and Fats Domino's "I'm Ready," but of course that didn't do much to satisfy the audience they had established with their original material and that, two years after the disappointing Cahoots, was waiting for something in the same league with their first three albums.
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One of my all time favorite covers....an odd selection for a rock band to be sure, but The Band were never an ordinary rock band. This has a light feel at the surface...but it wouldn't be hard to hear this as a soundtrack to a Stephen King carnival story. Just give a listen....this is confident, imaginative, clever & very well played with a looseness that belies it's precision.
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I can't wheel I can't deal Since you walked out on me Holy smoke, what you doing to me? I can't eat And I can't sleep Since you walked out on me Holy cow, what you doing, child, child? Holy cow, what doing, child? (What you doing, what you doing, child?) Holy smoke, well it ain't no joke (No joke) hey, hey, hey First my boss The job I lost Since you walked out on me Holy smoke, what you doi...
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The Band's unique experiences as roadhouse warriors with Ronnie Hawkins, and rock n roll icons with Dylan, helped shape an appreciation for many styles of music. And these myriad sounds from the heartland to the streets of New Orleans were echo'd in the Band's own music and the somgs they chose to cover. Rick Danko's reading of this Lee Dorsey nugget has that quavering, nervous, vulnerable el...
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Richard Manuel's haunting sad falsetto was one of the great sounds in rock n roll. His almost sublimnal humming adds an etheral eerie touch to the Band's Masterpiece "The Weight". A powerful, soulful vocalist with a natural growl as well as an angelic falsetto, he took the lead on many notable Band tracks. "King Harvest Has Surely Come", "I Shall Be Released", and so many other lyric were brou...
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Post Civil War America saw the first great internal migration in it's population. Southern populations, displaced or freed by the war were drifting north to feed the labor supply for the emerging industrial revolution.Farmers and farmhands and fieldworkers were trading in their horses and plows for the grind of the factory in the city.And the Country's various regional musical styles were meeti...
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Its attractive and fitting title borrowed from the name of an old Alan Freed radio show, "Moondog Matinee" was definitely not the album that a majority of The Band's fans and critics were anticipating. The group had enjoyed mass success with their first three albums, but their fourth, 1971's "Cahoots," was undeservedly regarded as a disappointment. And when compared to the immense praise that w...
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Its attractive and fitting title borrowed from the name of an old Alan Freed radio show, "Moondog Matinee" was definitely not the album that a majority of The Band's fans and critics were anticipating. The group had enjoyed mass success with their first three albums, but their fourth, 1971's "Cahoots," was undeservedly regarded as a disappointment. And when compared to the immense praise that w...
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