Moondog Matinee

The Band - Moondog Matinee

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Artist: The Band
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. Ain't Got No Home
  2. Holy Cow
  3. Share Your Love
  4. Mystery Train
  5. Third Man Theme
  6. Promised Land
  7. The Great Pretender
  8. I'm Ready
  9. Saved
  10. A Change Is Gonna Come
  11. Didn't It Rain (outtake)
  12. Crying Heart Blues (outtake)
  13. Shakin' (outtake)
  14. What Am I Living For (outtake)
  15. Going Back To Memphis (outtake)
  16. Endless Highway (Studio Version)

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Free Music Review: Richard Manuel's Glory Days
Hit: 5 Stars

As I listen more closely to the Band's music on this and their other albums, a sense of tragedy and missed opportunity shadows the experience. In the mid-1980s, we lost one of America's greatest singers when Richard Manuel died. As wonderful as Danko and Helm are, Manuel was described by Levon Helm as "the lead singer" of The Band, and by all rights should have had a brilliant solo career either during or after his service with what had become a somewhat dysfunctional unit beset by problems of money, ego and substance abuse. This album serves to make the point by allowing his incredible voice and unique, soul-based style an opportunity to fully entertain us with his stunningly beautiful renditions of "The Great Pretender" and "Share Your Love" and his vivid, comic take on "Saved."

Like the other Band singers, Manuel had the ability to fully inhabit the character "narrating" the song. But with Manuel, the stakes always seem a little higher. He was the most personal singer, the one who could make you cry as well as laugh. In the Band's earlier days, he offered songs like "Katie's Been Gone" and "Orange Juice Blues" (on The Basement Tapes w/Dylan), and of course on those first three, classic disks, he gave us the timeless "Tears of Rage," "In A Station," "King Harvest," "I Shall Be Released," "Lonesome Suzie," "Across the Great Divide," "Whispering Pines," "Sleeping" and "The Shape I'm In."

In my mind, I've been putting together a "Best of Richard Manuel" album -- it would also include songs like "She Knows," a stunning 1980s performance that is on the "Across the Great Divide" compilation, "Country Boy," which the reformed Band put on Jericho, and of course some of his later, great Band performances like "Right as Rain" "Rags and Bones" "Hobo Jungle" and his version of "Georgia on My Mind."

The Richard Manuel cuts on this album would have an honored place, and are one major reason why one might consider this album an essential purchase. And what will occur to you, perhaps, is that maybe it wasn't the best thing that Richard Manuel was a part of this outfit -- as great as they were, there was something destructive about membership in this Band, and Manuel was its first and most tragic victim. When I see Rod Stewart, a great singer but surely not the equal of Richard Manuel, prancing around on David Letterman singing a Sinatra standard, it's hard not to think of the rich American music, whether written by Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan or any other songwriter in America, that will never be performed to its fullest glory because Richard Manuel is now silent.

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Limited Edition Japanese "Mini Vinyl" CD, faithfully reproduced using original LP artwork including the inner sleeve. Features most recently mastered audio including bonus tracks where applicable.
By 1973, the Band were at a crossroads. Having summed up the first phase of their recording career with the Rock of Ages concert recording, Robbie Robertson flirted with an ambitious project inspired by Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki. But instead of forging ahead into uncharted territory, the quintet opted to hearken back to their roadhouse days with an LP that renovated oldies associated with the likes of Clarence "Frogman" Henry, the Platters, and Fats Domino. Given that Robertson's originals were no longer coming as fast and true as in the late '60s, a covers collection was a wise move. After all, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel were all vocalists who could tackle classics from the canons of Chuck Berry ("The Promised Land"), Bobby "Blue" Bland ("Share Your Love"), and Sam Cooke ("A Change Is Gonna Come") without straining under the weight of the originals. The 2001 reissue of this unaffected delight is fleshed out with a half-dozen outtakes that fit in nicely with the 10 tracks from the original LP. --Steven Stolder

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