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Free Music Review: A trip around America's heartland
Hit: 5 Stars
The Band are undoubtedly one of the most underrated bands of all time. And a band this talented didn't need any fancy name to call themselves. Or their albums. Which is why, in 1969 when they originally released The Band, true fans of music knew that they had something special on their hands. The album was so simply recorded, which makes it interesting, because everything you hear on that album was played or sung by Band members Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Robbie Robertson, along with the album's engineer John Simon. This is where The Band's multi-instrumentalism comes into play. Intricate string and horn arrangements are played by The Band and Simon. Anyway, get this album cause it's awesome. Highly recommended to Bob Dylan and Neil Young fans. The remaster has 7 bonus tracks so it makes it even more worth the buck, and for you hit lovers you have "Rag Mama Rag", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up On Cripple Creek", "The Unfaithful Servant", and "King Harvest." Not bad.Free Music Review: Highway Music.
Hit: 5 Stars
There are certain CDs that just belong in a car. This album's one of them. There's no finer music to listen to while taking a drive through the countryside than THE BAND, because the music is so rural and so huge -- kind of like America itself. We forget that this country was steeped in an unquenchable pioneer spirit for generations. The land was so huge that it took Americans hundreds of years to discover and develop it. When de Toqueville visited the United States, he saw that spirit and marveled about it back to his countrymen back in Europe. And The Band - another group of outsiders -- absolutely understood what that spirit was about and captured it beautifully on this CD.
If you ever take a drive from California to Chicago (as my wife and I did a few years back), you will really marvel at how enormous this country is. But you'll need lots of CDs. Include THE BAND and you'll look at the United States in a whole new light. While the music is reminiscent of a time long past, it will remain in the canons of the best American music for decades to come.
Free Music Review: Blows me away every time
Hit: 5 Stars
When my friends ask me why I bring up The Band so often, this is usually the album I'll put on. While Big Pink is at least as enjoyable and masterful, the 'brown album' is, in my opinion, the best introduction to The Band's sound. From the opening plea of "Across the Great Divide" to the final, electrifying solo of "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)", this might be the perfect album. It has beautiful ballads ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Whispering Pines", "The Unfaithful Servant"), hard rockers ("Jemima Surrender", "King Harvest", "Look out Cleveland", "Up on Cripple Creek") and everything in between...my favorite song on the album changes from week to week...I mean, how do you choose among the spine-tingling solo in Unfaithful Servant, Levon's Southern drawl in Cripple Creek, and the down-home feeling of "Rockin' Chair"? You don't, you just listen to the whole album and be happy that you've discovered such a great band.Free Music Review: the best of the Band
Hit: 5 Stars
This album, front to back, is easily one of the best releases of the 20th century. From the opening number 'across the great divide' down to possibly the Bands best song, 'King Harvest (has surely come)', the album creates a one of a kind vibe of americana, rock n' roll, country and soul music.
Highlights include 'Whispering Pines', with its amazing soulful vocals by the late Richard Manuel, 'Jawbone' a unique composition with its awesomely layered harmonies complimented by a rocking chorus, 'When you awake' with its oddly superb guitar and one of Rick Danko's finest vocals, and to top it all off 'King Harvest'. One doesn't find a better song to finish an album than this number. With its mixture of Rock/Soul/Funk and Country it just takes you into this world of a farmer struggling on his farm.
Although everything about this album has been said on the other reviews, I felt the need to brown nose the brown album a little bit more. Being a musician, this album is to me as water is to a swimmer, essential.
Free Music Review: notes on this release
Hit: 5 Stars
As the other reviews explain, this is a great recording. But the news is the remastering (the inspiration has been long attested). To my ears there's a lot more bass which makes for a richer listening experience. As in most remastering jobs, the acoustic guitar brightens considerably. Otherwise the sound remains the same because Robertson and Simon saw fit to limit it in the original recording. The liner notes explain that the drum set was a $130 thing purchased in a pawn shop. The extra tracks are more interesting than the other recent re-releases because The Band worked harder at the actual recording of this record than they worked on other recordings. So there are more takes to choose from. The alternative 'King Harvest' has a charm all its own and 'Jemima Surrender' really emphasizes the big contribution Richard Manuel's drumming made to the released best take (I also learned that it's Manuel who does that tremendous drumming at the end of 'When you Awake'). So I highly recommend purchasing this release.