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Free Music Review: My favorite album of all time! A masterpiece of Americana!
Hit: 5 Stars
There are very few albums that can bring solace and calm you down with wit and wisdom. This one is the best! 12 short stories of Americana. The album sounds like it could have been recorded in 1869, not 1969. It's like it's O.K. to visit your old friends Virgil Caine, Jawbone, Ragtime Willy etc. Robertson, Manuel, Danko, Helm and Hudson are some of the finest musicians in pop/rock history. The depth of this recording is remarkable. Sometimes when you feel the world is all messed up, pop this CD on, it'll make you feel better. It's homespun philosophy "You were born to grow old and never know.." is a panacea for all of today's ills. If I was going to the moon, Alice, and could only take five CD's with me, this would be one!Free Music Review: The Band at it's Best
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an album that springs forth from the heart of American Soil. The absolute proficiency of the players; the love of the songs they have created; The Rock; the Boogie; the spirit of the American everyman is caught up in this shining work. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) touches as deeply on the soul of a laboring people, a people still connected to the soil and their neighbors, as any song I can think of. Not to mention Garth Brooks haunting, masterful playing. Whispering Pines is an amazing lament and Up on Cripple Creek as as good a summons to a hoe-down as you will find. Levon Helms is still the most infectious singing drummer in the history of the tradition. Every time I listen again, it's like being with an old, well-loved friend.Free Music Review: Outstanding
Hit: 5 Stars
Having just "gotten into" The Band, two things stand out:
1) Robbie Robertson was absolutely right in breaking the group up when they did. Drug addiction was tearing them apart physically, ultimately leading to the deaths of Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. Levon Helm was, and still is bitter about it, but he was wrong.
2) Robertson did not solely compose these songs. While the original chord progressions and perhaps even the lyrics were his, the intrumentation and varied sounds were absolutely not. These songs should have been credited to the entire group. Robbie was an opportunist and took advantage of the situation. Still, it's very obvious that these songs were a group effort.
Buy this record.
Free Music Review: The Band's Best Album Ever
Hit: 5 Stars
In 1968, The Band wrote the manifesto for a revolution of simplicity with MUSIC FROM BIG PINK. The self-titled second album, however, was the revolution itself. Ignoring the excesses of psychedelia, The Band based their lyrics around the America of the late-1800s that I passed a Social Studies class about in the early 90s. Many of the themes of that course I took in school are even more present here than on the first album, either explicitly ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "King Harvest") or implicitly ("Across The Great Divide", "Rag Mama Rag"). Overall, this album is essential for any fan of rootsy rock & roll, as well as for anyone who had a "B" average or higher in U.S. History, whether in high school or college.Free Music Review: One of the (if not the) greatest rock albums ever
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the few albums I own that I would never, EVER get rid of (the others: "Pet Sounds", "White Album", and George Harrison "All Things Must Pass"). Most of the cuts on this album are excellent, the remaining few are above average. The Band shows a great musical flexability on this album; going from uptempo rock ("Look Out Cleveland", "Up On Cripple Creek") to ballads ("Unfaithful Servant", " Rockin' Chair") to country-Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" country-("Rag Mama Rag", "The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down"), and everything in between. A monumental album and definitely worthwhile to add to anyone's music collection.