@@robland6804 I would respectfully suggest that it's absolutely appropriate here; it mimics a Jews harp (jaw/juice) which is a quintessential mountain music instrument.
Have you guys heard "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" yet? It's absolutely beautiful. The Joan Baez cover is great too. Also, I truly believe "It Makes No Difference" is one of the greatest ballads OF ALL TIME.
Great song! The Band is one of the most influential out there but never became huge themselves. Sort of like how Brian Eno said about Lou Reed: ""The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." I suspect that is also true about The Band.
Oh My God, the version on The Last Waltz is an absolute 100% masterpiece!! Saw The Last Waltz at movie theater when i was like 16, liked it but nothing stood out. Was into Aerosmith and Zeppelin in 1976. Over the Years def heard The Night She Drove ol Dixie Down 100s of times.. and always liked it.. no complaints. About 2010 Kathi and i watched The Last Waltz.. and it got to this song.. i was completely blown away by Levon Helm singing of this song. The soul of that man.. not a big fan of 'the South' and ambivalent about Civil War. The lyrics are so f'n good.. gives me chills several times.. The part about the guys brother bein 18 and rebel like him and a yankee putting him in his grave... Its just sung so well, I AM IN TOTAL AWE OF THE SONG AND LEVON HELM!!!!!!
As you complement the drumming don't forget that the drummer is also the main singer on this song. Levon Helm, one of the best drummer/singers and one hell of mandolin player.
I saw them with the Dead and the Allman Brothers in 1973 at Summer Jam in Watkins Glen along with 600,000 others rivaling Woodstock's crowd. Good times for sure.
In the late 70s, I was in a record store in college with a friend. I had some extra money because I’d sold my tickets to the football game that week. I saw Best of The Band LP in a bin. I told my friend that I only recognized two songs on the album. He said that I’d know more of the songs and would love the others. So, I bought it and I did know more songs and fell in love with the rest of them. That started my love affair with this band.
Money well spent, I’d say. Of course, seeing a game with friends can make for a good time and nice memories, but I think that can be said even more so for sharing a new music experience with friends.
@@frankkendrick7751 It was one of the biggest game of a season when our team eventually won a national championship. My friend and I did not want to miss the game, but we were broke college students, and the $$$ we got for those seats was more important at that time to us. However, I’m still amazed that I sold the tickets because I was such a huge football fan at the time.
Levon Helm is an underrated drummer and actor. This is my favorite song from The Band. I can't explain why but it just makes me feel good. I know that doesn't make sense but there you go. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is my suggestion for the next song by The Band.
Hometown band from my neck of the woods me being from Welland, Ontario. Rick Danko from Blayney, Ontario (just outside Simcoe); Garth Hudson from Windsor, Ontario; Richard Manuel from Stratford, Ontario; Robbie Robertson from Toronto, Ontario, and Levon Helm who was American from Elaine, Arkansas. When I was a kid growing up in the 60's and early 70's, I never appreciated the band enough. I did like this song you're featuring here plus The Weight and Dixie Down, but as I got into my mid-teens and after I saw The Last Waltz, I became a huge fan, but then they broke up. I did see them twice in concert in the 90's when they reformed without Robbie and this was after Richard passed. A friend of mine and I went to see The Band at Griffiths Sculpture Park in Western NY for a Canadian Invasion concert event and we were right down front of the stage. It has to be one of my fav concerts of all time. Saw them again at the now gone Melody Fair in North Tonawanda where I now reside. Today The Band is one of my favorite artists, up there with Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Dylan, CSN (&Y). Besides also being a huge prog rock fan, pop music fan, alternative music fan, classic rock fan, I like the fact that you guys give time to a lot of various types of music, old and newer. We can all be music lovers of a lot of different styles of music without thinking it's not cool to like one style if you like another. I am a huge Elvis fan and was never ashamed of it even when it was not cool to like him at one point for no particular reason besides some friends thinking it's not cool. I really enjoy checking out your videos and your personal reviews. I hope you guys keep going!!! Heck I saw RUSH more than a dozen times, first time in 1976 at the Welland Arena during their 2112 tour with Max Webster down front of the stage and I still think about that show today. Your review of RUSH is what brought me to your webpage on UA-cam in the first place. By the way High Fidelity is a great movie about a record shop and the conversations that go on. I been there!!
Probably my favourite song by The Band. I've sung it hundreds of times in various rock bands since the mid 70s, and I've never tired of it. " Me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box...."
It took me a long time to come around to this view but the really were The Band. They can do any song, any style, and do it better than everyone else. Even in the Last Waltz, they go from backing Neil Young to backing Joni Mitchel (on Coyote, a complex song that can be seen performed live with jazz greats Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius backing her up), etc etc. Of course there's always the story of how Clapton left Cream because he heard The Band - and wanted to join them, but they refused!
Now you really must react to The Band “Chest Fever”! It’s one of my favorites by them. People seem too overlook it, and it’s a shame. It’s a truly great song.
Few people know that besides the drummer Helms this group was all from around Toronto were they were part of the Ronnie Hawkins hawk's band who played rockabilly music
The Band is the bomb! My favorites by them tend to be their really funky tunes, such as Don’t Do It and King Harvest has Surely Come. You guys should check those out for sure, especially the versions recorded at the NYC Music Academy for the Rock of Ages album. For something completely different yet totally awesome, listen to Acadian Driftwood. Perfection in lyrics as well as musically.
#25 in 1969, it didn't fit the mold of what was on the radio at the time, but if you are a musician or musically inclined, it connected. Now of course, it is considered classic and iconic. The drummer Levon Helm played Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter and Ripley in The Right Stuff, nice roles.
I think the name of the narrator in the right stuff was Ridley. Just correcting in case anyone wants to hear his narration of the film. 👍Thanks for shining a light on his versatility!
First keyboard player to create the funky sound of a clavinet through a wah pedal: Canadian white boy Richard Manuel (edit/correction: Garth Hudson) of The Band, this song. Now y'all need to react to some Spike Jones, so you can learn more about what they were watching on TV back at the shack. He was a ridiculous genius who was on TV way back in the fifties, doing warped versions of classical music and show tunes with a plaid suited band of absolute assassins. Hilarious, and extremely talented. Clips are all over UA-cam - "Sabre Dance" and "Tchaikovsky Medley" are good places to start.
As fond as I am of Spike Jones (my dad had a Best of LP in the 70s), I am not sure that most of his stuff has aged well. I bought a 2 CD Best of 10 or so years ago, and while I still found it charming, it wasn't quite magical, and my daughter (8yo give or take a couple years) didn't get it at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you watched "The Last Waltz" then you have heard "Up on Cripple Creek", it is the first song The Band played on stage. Drummer Levon Helm takes the Lead Vocals duties on this track.
They picked up the name "The Band" when they were backing Bob Dylan on his first electric tour, and in press conferences he referred to them as the band.
Loved Andy's comment about the space. The Band has at least a couple of virtuoso musicians yet their playing is often so restrained and their music really breathes. Many more to recommend but three to try: "Don't Do It" (live Rock of Ages album version with Allen Toussaint horn arrangement), "It Makes No Difference" (studio version with heartbreaking Rick Danko vocal), and deeper Last Waltz album cut, "Out of the Blue".
Man, quintessential swimming-hole by the railroad tracks tune! Combine the first 70 degree day of a New England spring with the unexpected appearance of this song on the radio, and you've got class-cutting euphoria. _Up on Cripple Creek_ was a rare treat on the classic rock radio station I listened to in the late 80s. Not having any The Band albums, I was always psyched when this came on, and the radio got turned waaay up. There might be other songs that are as bouncy, open, and fun as this, but at the time, I hadn't heard them, and this sounded refreshingly unlike all the other classic rock staples.
Love 'Whispering Pines' and 'Rocking Chair'...both have Richard Manuel on lead vocals. You could 'King Harvest', the video I believe is made in Sammy Davis Junior's pool house, where the Band was working on the "Brown" album.
When I get off of this mountain you know where I want to go on down that Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico to lake Charles Louisiana see that Bessie girl I once knew she said to just stop on by if there's anything she can do
Andy! One of my fave song from The Band too! I been requesting this song from y’all since you had the black curtain ha ha - FINALLY ☺️ (And “dips her donut in my T” is very much a sexual innuendo)…
I love love love The Band, one of my all-time favorites. I'd suggest checking out King Harvest (Has Surely Come), their funkiest song, and Chest Fever, a classic rocker with Garth Hudson's fantastic organ intro. Such a great band, The Band.
The Band's career arc is perfect captured in the documentary: Once Were Brothers (2019) - a truly maddening sad uplifting and ultimately tragic tale equal to any of their amazing oeuvre fittingly directed by a good Canuck
The verses and the chorus are as classic as it gets. Somebody had to do both and The Band did them. S tier song because it is perfect in the genre of southern, cajun, funk, rock, folk, country. lol
“The Last Waltz”, The Bands last concert and documentary. Special guest, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Ronnie Hawkins, Staple Singers and more, you must see it.
One of the guitarist, Robbie Robertson, is a Native American from Canada who has a storied career with the likes of Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Eric Clapton and so many more. In his solo career he released music to benefit his roots in Native America and featured Native American acapella group ULALI. Robertson is a rabbit hole unto himself!
His wonderful mom was a native American and his father was a white Jewish gentleman. Robbie was born and raised in Toronto. He is first and foremost a Canadian!
@@BobSoltis1 Native American means anyone of indigenous heritage born in North America. That includes Canada, USA and Mexico. Therefore he is NATIVE FIRST!!!
@@ReleaseTheQuackers How strange that one race puts themselves ahead of all others. I always consider myself as a Canadian that is proud of my First Nations heritage. BTW - "First Nation" is the proper way to refer to indigenous people in Canada.
You have to listen to Band songs many times to catch all the little things that go on under and behind the lead vocals. It's like watching a movie again and seeing a look or a catching a line that foreshadowed something that you missed the first time. These guys were so smart and talented and worked so well together.
My grade 8 music teacher played this song for the class in 1969. Loved the song and borrowed his album to hear it through for the first time. Loved The Band ever since...They are still my favourite of all time...
Once Dylan went Electric, he chose these guys,( known as The Hawks at the time ) to Your with. The press simply referred to them, deprecatingly, as 'the band'!
I hated this song when I was a kid. I kinda appreciate it more now, but there’s LOTS more from those days you guys would LOVE! For instance, you REALLY gotta do Do You Know What I Mean, by Lee Michaels. I PROMISE you guys you won’t regret it!
This song has so much soul! I love the mouth harp and the jug band feel to this song, it really gives it so much depth. This band has always reminded me of a group you might run into in an old town bar somewhere where they have to pipe in daylight and for the rest of your life you will tell the story about how you heard the best damned music in some podunk town in the middle of nowhere, as you savor the warm memory of those green hills and old country roads. I love music that paints a picture, tells a story and creates a mood and this is one of those bands. For me, this is at least an A rated song but I am dumbing down my rating because I know other songs by The Band that I like even more than this one. With that said, I don't see how they could have done anything more with this song to create the vibe they were going for.
Levon Helm on drums the lead singer on this song, as in many of their numbers, including The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down and others. Incidentally, Levon Helm, the drummer, played Loretta Lynn's father in the movie, "The Coal Miner's Daughter". Interesting guy.
They're called "the Band" because they were Bob Dylan's backing band in the mid-1960s, and they became known as such. Prior to to that, they were named The Hawks.
When they lived in Woodstock and were backing Dylan, everytime they were out on the town, either as a group or alone, people would say "he is in the Band" or "they are the Band". So when they had to choose a name, after some discussion, and tossing around other names, they settled on The Band.
What a nice surprise guys! Thank you. I would also recommend listening to "We Can Talk" and "To Kingdom Come" from the debut album "Music From Big Pink". These are my favorite songs performed by them, where the fabulous Richard Manuel sings.
I think the name comes from their time being Bob Dylan’s backing band. When they were backstage or at parties or whatever, people would ask who they were and they were referred to as just “the band.” So instead of it being a pretentious type thing where they’re considering themselves “THE Band” it’s actually more the opposite.
I used to play drums in my younger days, and it's so rare to find someone who can both, sing and play at the same. I think of this fellow here, for "The Band, "Levon Helm", and the drummer/singer for "Rare Earth", and Don Henley of "The Eagles". Even Karen Carpenter of The Carpenters, was an exceptional drummer, and she played on some of the early songs. Thanks guys
That clavinet through the wah wah pedal is classic
Heard on a thousand funk and R&B records since then, but invented by a Canadian white boy.
What’s the first thing one does after hearing this song? Go find out WTF is making that previously-unheard sound.
Don't like it here, incongruous, sounds like Stevie Wonder sitting in on a Lynyrd Skynyrd session
@@robland6804 I would respectfully suggest that it's absolutely appropriate here; it mimics a Jews harp (jaw/juice) which is a quintessential mountain music instrument.
@@parsleyqueen fair, it does have a jug-band sound. I love country rock, alt country, and country -- but jug-band is where I draw the line lol
Have you guys heard "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" yet? It's absolutely beautiful. The Joan Baez cover is great too. Also, I truly believe "It Makes No Difference" is one of the greatest ballads OF ALL TIME.
I came to suggest Dixie. It’s one of my absolute faves
Great song!
The Band is one of the most influential out there but never became huge themselves. Sort of like how Brian Eno said about Lou Reed: ""The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." I suspect that is also true about The Band.
Both of those songs are masterpieces
Don't forget Stagefright
Oh My God, the version on The Last Waltz is an absolute 100% masterpiece!! Saw The Last Waltz at movie theater when i was like 16, liked it but nothing stood out. Was into Aerosmith and Zeppelin in 1976. Over the Years def heard The Night She Drove ol Dixie Down 100s of times.. and always liked it.. no complaints. About 2010 Kathi and i watched The Last Waltz.. and it got to this song.. i was completely blown away by Levon Helm singing of this song. The soul of that man.. not a big fan of 'the South' and ambivalent about Civil War. The lyrics are so f'n good.. gives me chills several times.. The part about the guys brother bein 18 and rebel like him and a yankee putting him in his grave... Its just sung so well, I AM IN TOTAL AWE OF THE SONG AND LEVON HELM!!!!!!
That funky drummer, Levon Helm was singing the lead vocal at the same time.
RIP Levon! One of a kind!
Also a great actor.
An incredibly talented band. Three lead singers, great musicians, great songs. When you've got all of that, you can call yourself The Band.
So they have your permission, then?
@@SpaceCattttt He wasn't writing that with a literal intent, in the sense of anyone giving anybody permission, but then, you knew that.
@@christianman73 Spot on. I guess the world needs smart asses too.
As you complement the drumming don't forget that the drummer is also the main singer on this song. Levon Helm, one of the best drummer/singers and one hell of mandolin player.
I saw them with the Dead and the Allman Brothers in 1973 at Summer Jam in Watkins Glen along with 600,000 others rivaling Woodstock's crowd. Good times for sure.
In the late 70s, I was in a record store in college with a friend. I had some extra money because I’d sold my tickets to the football game that week. I saw Best of The Band LP in a bin. I told my friend that I only recognized two songs on the album. He said that I’d know more of the songs and would love the others. So, I bought it and I did know more songs and fell in love with the rest of them. That started my love affair with this band.
Money well spent, I’d say. Of course, seeing a game with friends can make for a good time and nice memories, but I think that can be said even more so for sharing a new music experience with friends.
@@frankkendrick7751 It was one of the biggest game of a season when our team eventually won a national championship. My friend and I did not want to miss the game, but we were broke college students, and the $$$ we got for those seats was more important at that time to us. However, I’m still amazed that I sold the tickets because I was such a huge football fan at the time.
I love their second album. I listened to it multiple times a day everyday for years while in college.....
The Band is the best band ever.
Levon Helm is an underrated drummer and actor. This is my favorite song from The Band. I can't explain why but it just makes me feel good. I know that doesn't make sense but there you go. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is my suggestion for the next song by The Band.
And Levon plays drums and sings at the same time, and actually prefers it that way.
Gotta admit I've always loved this song also,don't know why.
I loved his role in the The Shooter.
The live version of "Night they Drove Old Dixie Down" from The Last Waltz even tops the studio, mho. Levon giving it all he's got.
@@bomagosh And he's dead!
Hometown band from my neck of the woods me being from Welland, Ontario. Rick Danko from Blayney, Ontario (just outside Simcoe); Garth Hudson from Windsor, Ontario; Richard Manuel from Stratford, Ontario; Robbie Robertson from Toronto, Ontario, and Levon Helm who was American from Elaine, Arkansas. When I was a kid growing up in the 60's and early 70's, I never appreciated the band enough. I did like this song you're featuring here plus The Weight and Dixie Down, but as I got into my mid-teens and after I saw The Last Waltz, I became a huge fan, but then they broke up. I did see them twice in concert in the 90's when they reformed without Robbie and this was after Richard passed. A friend of mine and I went to see The Band at Griffiths Sculpture Park in Western NY for a Canadian Invasion concert event and we were right down front of the stage. It has to be one of my fav concerts of all time. Saw them again at the now gone Melody Fair in North Tonawanda where I now reside. Today The Band is one of my favorite artists, up there with Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Dylan, CSN (&Y). Besides also being a huge prog rock fan, pop music fan, alternative music fan, classic rock fan, I like the fact that you guys give time to a lot of various types of music, old and newer. We can all be music lovers of a lot of different styles of music without thinking it's not cool to like one style if you like another. I am a huge Elvis fan and was never ashamed of it even when it was not cool to like him at one point for no particular reason besides some friends thinking it's not cool. I really enjoy checking out your videos and your personal reviews. I hope you guys keep going!!! Heck I saw RUSH more than a dozen times, first time in 1976 at the Welland Arena during their 2112 tour with Max Webster down front of the stage and I still think about that show today. Your review of RUSH is what brought me to your webpage on UA-cam in the first place. By the way High Fidelity is a great movie about a record shop and the conversations that go on. I been there!!
Rock n Roll will always need more of what’s going on the first few seconds of this song. You can’t teach that kind of groove
Agreed. Keith richards talked about the “roll”. He said many bands rock, but few can roll. This band rolls. They have swing.
@@mumbles215 amen! That’s why Charlie Watts is still underrated imo. He had that swing that makes the Rolling Stones roll
GodDAMN! That is so aptly put .
What amazes me is how American these guys sound, and yet 4 out of the 5 guys are Canadian.
Levon Helm was one of the most underrated, yet innovative drummers ever! He had a sense of timing of his own.
It’s very laid back
True, true
He and Danko just fit right in the pocket
Absolutely
Probably my favourite song by The Band. I've sung it hundreds of times in various rock bands since the mid 70s, and I've never tired of it. " Me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box...."
yup...me too.
King Harvest, Acadian Driftwood, Chest Fever
And the drummer (Levon Helm) was singing at the same time!
I love the yodeling. Slim Whitman would be proud.
It took me a long time to come around to this view but the really were The Band. They can do any song, any style, and do it better than everyone else. Even in the Last Waltz, they go from backing Neil Young to backing Joni Mitchel (on Coyote, a complex song that can be seen performed live with jazz greats Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius backing her up), etc etc. Of course there's always the story of how Clapton left Cream because he heard The Band - and wanted to join them, but they refused!
Robbie Roberston solo - self titled album 1987 is one of my all time favourite albums! SO GOOD!
“…somewhere down the lazy river…” ☺️
Yes!!
I was just about to make this very same comment when I saw yours! He painted a masterpiece.
‘Crazy’ river.
I don't always listen to "Up on Cripple Creek", but when I do, my neighbors do also.
Now you really must react to The Band “Chest Fever”! It’s one of my favorites by them. People seem too overlook it, and it’s a shame. It’s a truly great song.
My favorite!
Killer track! You're right about it getting overlooked these days.
Cannot agree more! Chest Fever can only be described as EPIC!
Definitely a great one many don’t know
3 dog night's version is better
Love that you love this, Andy.
Robbie Robertson is one of the great songwriters in rock history.
Severely underrated. His Red Road Ensemble is gorgeous.
Few people know that besides the drummer Helms this group was all from around Toronto were they were part of the Ronnie Hawkins hawk's band who played rockabilly music
The Band is the bomb! My favorites by them tend to be their really funky tunes, such as Don’t Do It and King Harvest has Surely Come. You guys should check those out for sure, especially the versions recorded at the NYC Music Academy for the Rock of Ages album. For something completely different yet totally awesome, listen to Acadian Driftwood. Perfection in lyrics as well as musically.
Great choices!
Levon Helm baby. Playing the drums while singing.
Yes, and don't forget "Ophelia"
All great choices...The Band can not be beat...
Yes, the Rock of Ages album recorded at NYC Music Academy is one great live album. Disc 2 of the CD release
is a great treasure as well.
A+ all day twice on Sunday
Agreed with Andy … A+ for sure
I'm always amazed that Levon Helm can sing that well and still hold down that killer groove.
Absolutely
This was the leadoff number in the Last Waltz concert, as the lights come up on the audience in Winterland.
#25 in 1969, it didn't fit the mold of what was on the radio at the time, but if you are a musician or musically inclined, it connected. Now of course, it is considered classic and iconic. The drummer Levon Helm played Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter and Ripley in The Right Stuff, nice roles.
I think the name of the narrator in the right stuff was Ridley. Just correcting in case anyone wants to hear his narration of the film. 👍Thanks for shining a light on his versatility!
Is National Trails a reference to the drag strip in Ohio?
@@lanaj1107 Oops! Jack Ridley and his Beeman's (hope I got that right.).
@@johndef5075 Way out West, though at some times, it was probably used competitively!
@@nationaltrails9585 yes! I forgot about the Beeman's! What is funny is that I bought some about a month ago. It was a taste of my childhood. 🥴😁
First keyboard player to create the funky sound of a clavinet through a wah pedal: Canadian white boy Richard Manuel (edit/correction: Garth Hudson) of The Band, this song.
Now y'all need to react to some Spike Jones, so you can learn more about what they were watching on TV back at the shack. He was a ridiculous genius who was on TV way back in the fifties, doing warped versions of classical music and show tunes with a plaid suited band of absolute assassins. Hilarious, and extremely talented. Clips are all over UA-cam - "Sabre Dance" and "Tchaikovsky Medley" are good places to start.
Garth Hudson plays the clavinet and organ. Also Canadian along with Robbie and Rick.
@@CDJF1 Huh. I thought that was Richard on the clavinet.
As fond as I am of Spike Jones (my dad had a Best of LP in the 70s), I am not sure that most of his stuff has aged well. I bought a 2 CD Best of 10 or so years ago, and while I still found it charming, it wasn't quite magical, and my daughter (8yo give or take a couple years) didn't get it at all.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@AdamMcGahan You gotta watch the TV clips. It's a theatrical experience, not an audio one.
Richard played piano. All other keyboard sounds were played by Garth.
If you watched "The Last Waltz" then you have heard "Up on Cripple Creek", it is the first song The Band played on stage. Drummer Levon Helm takes the Lead Vocals duties on this track.
The Band literally invented the Americana genre of music. Up on Cripple Creek IS genre defining.
Garth Hudson was an absolute genius on the organ Just LISTEN to what he does on this song.
When Eric Clapton first heard the band he said that's the kind of music I want to play .
I did some work on Levon's house and he gave me a tour of his studio, what a thrill!
Lucky you...
“It Makes No Difference” is a great great song
Yes...Rick Danko is fantastic on this one. Also, Garth"s sax solo at the and is perfect..
They picked up the name "The Band" when they were backing Bob Dylan on his first electric tour, and in press conferences he referred to them as the band.
Swamp Rock. sayin' that as bein' around Lake Charles, Luzianna as they sing about here in the opening lines...
Loved Andy's comment about the space. The Band has at least a couple of virtuoso musicians yet their playing is often so restrained and their music really breathes. Many more to recommend but three to try: "Don't Do It" (live Rock of Ages album version with Allen Toussaint horn arrangement), "It Makes No Difference" (studio version with heartbreaking Rick Danko vocal), and deeper Last Waltz album cut, "Out of the Blue".
Thanks! I'd never heard "It Makes No Difference" but it's classic! (I also noticed My Morning Jacket did a cover...it sounds really good)
All excellent choices....
The Band always tell a story! Awesome lyrics, sooo many different instruments sound great together! Great!!
They shined best live. You should hear them backing Dylan
Well…they did watch The Last Waltz …..
One of the best concerts ever. That’s when I went from a fan to A Fan.
Love this song. I cannot listen to it without singing along at least a chorus or two and a little yodel.
"Too Soon Gone". Please!!! You WILL think someone is chopping onions...
Man, quintessential swimming-hole by the railroad tracks tune! Combine the first 70 degree day of a New England spring with the unexpected appearance of this song on the radio, and you've got class-cutting euphoria.
_Up on Cripple Creek_ was a rare treat on the classic rock radio station I listened to in the late 80s. Not having any The Band albums, I was always psyched when this came on, and the radio got turned waaay up. There might be other songs that are as bouncy, open, and fun as this, but at the time, I hadn't heard them, and this sounded refreshingly unlike all the other classic rock staples.
ua-cam.com/video/6meUhnbz7oA/v-deo.html Bow Thayer tune Swinging Hole. Levon played on his album Spend It All.
@@Garciadann nice bluegrassy tune.
Love levon Helm's voice!!! Amazing..
This is the S tier Band song if ever there was one.
Love this song!!
Love 'Whispering Pines' and 'Rocking Chair'...both have Richard Manuel on lead vocals. You could 'King Harvest', the video I believe is made in Sammy Davis Junior's pool house, where the Band was working on the "Brown" album.
When I get off of this mountain you know where I want to go on down that Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico to lake Charles Louisiana see that Bessie girl I once knew she said to just stop on by if there's anything she can do
They are called The Band bc they backed singers the most famous, Bob Dylan. They would simply be introduced during the concert as The Band.
It's all about that clav
Fav song as a little kid
I love this song. S tier.
When I get off of this mountain…
Andy! One of my fave song from The Band too!
I been requesting this song from y’all since you had the black curtain ha ha -
FINALLY ☺️
(And “dips her donut in my T” is very much a sexual innuendo)…
Gotta hit “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down” & “It Makes No Difference”
I love love love The Band, one of my all-time favorites. I'd suggest checking out King Harvest (Has Surely Come), their funkiest song, and Chest Fever, a classic rocker with Garth Hudson's fantastic organ intro. Such a great band, The Band.
I love this song so much I've played it almost every gig. But "Ophelia" is still my favorite. Just a little harder to pull off
My recommendations for more of The Band… Unfaithful Servant… Whispering Pines… King Harvest. Enjoy!
The Band's career arc is perfect captured in the documentary: Once Were Brothers (2019) - a truly maddening sad uplifting and ultimately tragic tale equal to any of their amazing oeuvre fittingly directed by a good Canuck
The verses and the chorus are as classic as it gets. Somebody had to do both and The Band did them. S tier song because it is perfect in the genre of southern, cajun, funk, rock, folk, country. lol
This band puts the “roll” and rock n roll.
The Band served as the inspiration to Bernie Taupin/Elton John when they wrote Tumbleweed Connection.
I love that album. They should do the full review.
Elton's song "Levon", named for Levon Helm.
“Rag Mama Rag” needs to the next one off this album.
Talk about simple name choice for your band. They backed everybody. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Thanks again for this memory.
Check out - The Shape I'm In, Rag Mama Rag, Ophelia
“The Last Waltz”, The Bands last concert and documentary. Special guest, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Ronnie Hawkins, Staple Singers and more, you must see it.
Did you watch this? They said they watched it on Patreon.
Love this group. Thanks for sharing
One of the guitarist, Robbie Robertson, is a Native American from Canada who has a storied career with the likes of Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Eric Clapton and so many more. In his solo career he released music to benefit his roots in Native America and featured Native American acapella group ULALI. Robertson is a rabbit hole unto himself!
His wonderful mom was a native American and his father was a white Jewish gentleman. Robbie was born and raised in Toronto. He is first and foremost a Canadian!
@@BobSoltis1 Native American means anyone of indigenous heritage born in North America. That includes Canada, USA and Mexico. Therefore he is NATIVE FIRST!!!
@@ReleaseTheQuackers How strange that one race puts themselves ahead of all others.
I always consider myself as a Canadian that is proud of my First Nations heritage.
BTW - "First Nation" is the proper way to refer to indigenous people in Canada.
How can you not love The Band, they are so awesome.
You have to listen to Band songs many times to catch all the little things that go on under and behind the lead vocals. It's like watching a movie again and seeing a look or a catching a line that foreshadowed something that you missed the first time. These guys were so smart and talented and worked so well together.
Criple Creek is my favorite too.
"Arcadian Driftwood" is a excellent tune by he Band, as is "Paint My Masterpiece",
My grade 8 music teacher played this song for the class in 1969. Loved the song and borrowed his album to hear it through
for the first time. Loved The Band ever since...They are still my favourite of all time...
From 1958 to 1963 they were known as the Hawks. They were the back up band for Ronnie Hawkins.
My favorite is Katie’s Been Gone, from the Basement Tapes. But maybe because it has personal significance.
Great song, and great vocal, by Richard Manual
Once Dylan went Electric, he chose these guys,( known as The Hawks at the time ) to Your with. The press simply referred to them, deprecatingly, as 'the band'!
The Last Waltz...such a great documentary showcasing amazing musicians.
I hated this song when I was a kid. I kinda appreciate it more now, but there’s LOTS more from those days you guys would LOVE! For instance, you REALLY gotta do Do You Know What I Mean, by Lee Michaels. I PROMISE you guys you won’t regret it!
I’m with you Andy. I love the swampy stuff and I have always loved the descriptive lyrics and the fun music all the way through.
I've always been partial to, "The Shape I'm In," "Ophelia" and "I Shall Be Released."
Great song, so true!
Loved the base in this.
The perfect side girl song!
I’ve always loved this funky, laid back groove.
LOVE The Band!
Thank you!
Ever heard a Hohner Clavinet being run thru a wah-wah pedal? Well, now you have...
This song has so much soul! I love the mouth harp and the jug band feel to this song, it really gives it so much depth. This band has always reminded me of a group you might run into in an old town bar somewhere where they have to pipe in daylight and for the rest of your life you will tell the story about how you heard the best damned music in some podunk town in the middle of nowhere, as you savor the warm memory of those green hills and old country roads. I love music that paints a picture, tells a story and creates a mood and this is one of those bands. For me, this is at least an A rated song but I am dumbing down my rating because I know other songs by The Band that I like even more than this one. With that said, I don't see how they could have done anything more with this song to create the vibe they were going for.
I recently read Keith Richards describing the Band as "too perfect."
“King harvest (has surely come)” should be your next reaction to the band… it’s awesome, and it has parentheses, which I know you guys love
Levon Helm on drums the lead singer on this song, as in many of their numbers, including The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down and others. Incidentally, Levon Helm, the drummer, played Loretta Lynn's father in the movie, "The Coal Miner's Daughter". Interesting guy.
They're called "the Band" because they were Bob Dylan's backing band in the mid-1960s, and they became known as such. Prior to to that, they were named The Hawks.
When they lived in Woodstock and were backing Dylan, everytime they were out on the town, either as a group or alone, people would say "he is in the Band" or "they are the Band". So when they had to choose a name, after some discussion, and tossing around other names, they settled on The Band.
The Band, such a great group and many hits that are still good through the decades.
I predict A+ from both of you!
What a nice surprise guys! Thank you. I would also recommend listening to "We Can Talk" and "To Kingdom Come" from the debut album "Music From Big Pink". These are my favorite songs performed by them, where the fabulous Richard Manuel sings.
Yes... Both great songs, song by the great Richard Manual.
Levon Helm sang lead vocals and massaged the drum kit on this one. So good.
I think the name comes from their time being Bob Dylan’s backing band. When they were backstage or at parties or whatever, people would ask who they were and they were referred to as just “the band.”
So instead of it being a pretentious type thing where they’re considering themselves “THE Band” it’s actually more the opposite.
I used to play drums in my younger days, and it's so rare to find someone who can both, sing and play at the same. I think of this fellow here, for "The Band, "Levon Helm", and the drummer/singer for "Rare Earth", and Don Henley of "The Eagles". Even Karen Carpenter of The Carpenters, was an exceptional drummer, and she played on some of the early songs.
Thanks guys
The Band is always A+...
A genre bending group, unique to themselves and for that I love The Band.