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Band - A MUSICAL HISTORY - la recensione

Recensione del 01 dic 2005

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Cinque Cd e un Dvd (con immagini rare da concerti e programmi tv) ripercorrono l’intera, gloriosa epopea della Band, quattro canadesi e uno statunitense che furono pionieri della “roots music” e maestri nel rievocare un’America d’altri tempi attraverso la riscoperta e l’aggiornamento della sua ricchissima tradizione musicale. Prodotto con la collaborazione di Robbie Robertson, principale compositore del gruppo, il cofanetto si snoda cronologicamente dagli inizi al fianco del rocker Ronnie Hawkins e poi di Bob Dylan fino all’ “Ultimo valzer” del novembre 1976, passando per dischi epocali come “Music from Big Pink”, “The Band” e il live “Rock of ages”. Oltre ai pezzi già pubblicati, nell’abbondante programma figurano 37 titoli inediti o proposti in versioni mai ascoltate e numerose rarità di studio e dal vivo. Elegantissima la confezione, con i Cd alloggiati in un libro di 108 pagine illustrato da splendide fotografie.

Tracklist

CD 1
01. Who do you love? - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks (mono)
02. You know I love you - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
03. Further on up the road - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
04. Nineteen years old - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
05. Honky tonk - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued]
06. Bacon fat - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued]
07. Robbie's blues - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued]
08. Leave me alone - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued on CD]
09. Uh uh uh - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued on CD]
10. He don't love you (And he'll break your heart) - Levon & The Hawks (mono)
11. (I want to be) The rainmaker (mono) (song sketch) [track previously unissued]
12. The stones I throw (song sketch) (mono) [track previously unissued]
13. The stones I throw (Will free all men) - Levon & The Hawks (mono)
14. Go go Liza Jane - Levon & The Hawks (mono)
15. Can you please crawl out your window? (single version) - Bob Dylan (mono)
16. Tell me, momma (live 5/14/66, The Odeon, Liverpool) - Bob Dylan (mono)[track previously unissued]
17. Just like Tom Thumb's blues (live 5/14/66, The Odeon, Liverpool) - Bob Dylan (mono)[track previously unissued on LP (in the U.S.) or CD]
18. Words and numbers (song sketch) (mono) [track previously unissued]
19. You don't come through (song sketch) (mono) [track previously unissued]
20. Beautiful thing (song sketch) (mono) [track previously unissued]
21. Caledonia mission (song sketch) (mono) [track previously unissued]
22. Odds and ends - Bob Dylan & The Band
23. Ferdinand the impostor (mono)
24. Ruben Remus (mono)
25. Will the circle be unbroken (mono) [track previously unissued]

CD 2
01. Katie's been gone
02. Ain't no more cane on the brazos
03. Don't ya tell Henry - Bob Dylan & The Band
04. Tears of rage
05. To kingdom come (full-length version) [track previously unissued]
06. In a station
07. The weight
08. We can talk
09. Long black veil
10. Chest fever
11. This wheel's on fire
12. I shall be released
13. Yazoo street scandal [track previously unissued]
14. I ain't got no home (live 1/20/68, Carnegie Hall, NYC) - Bob Dylan with The Band
15. Orange juice blues (Blues for breakfast)
16. Baby Lou [track previously unissued]
17. Long distance operator [track previously unissued]
18. Key to the highway [track previously unissued]
19. Bessie Smith

CD 3
01. Across the great divide
02. Rag mama rag
03. The night they drove old dixie down
04. When you awake
05. Up on Cripple Creek
06. Whispering pines
07. King Harvest (has surely come)
08. Get up Jake
09. Jemima surrender (early version) [track previously unissued]
10. Daniel and the sacred harp (alternate take)
11. Time to kill
12. All la glory (early version) [track previously unissued]
13. The shape I'm in
14. Stage fright
15. The rumor
16. Slippin' & slidin’ (live 7/5/70, the Festival Express Train Tour, Calgary, Canada) [track previously unissued]
17. Don't do it
18. Strawberry wine (live 6/2/71, Royal Albert Hall, London) [track previously unissued]
19. Rockin’ chair (live 6/2/71, Royal Albert Hall, London) [track previously unissued]
20. Look out Cleveland (live 6/2/71, Royal Albert Hall, London) [track previously unissued]
21. 4% pantomime [track previously unissued]

CD4
01. Life is a carnival
02. When I paint my masterpiece
03. The moon struck one
04. The river hymn
05. Don't do it [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
06. Caledonia mission [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
07. Smoke signal [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC] [track previously unissued]
08. Unfaithful servant [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
09. The W.S. Walcott medicine show (live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
10. The genetic method [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
11. Chest fever [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
12. (I don't want to hang up my) Rock’n’ roll shoes [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
13. Loving you (is sweeter than ever) [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
14. Endless highway
15. Move me (song sketch) [track previously unissued]
16. Two piano song [track previously unissued]

DVD
01. Jam/King Harvest (has surely come) (rec. 1970, Robbie's Studio, Woodstock, NY) [performance previously unissued in its entirety]
02. Long black veil (live 7/5/70, the Festival Express Train Tour, Calgary, Canada) [performance previously unissued]
03. Rockin’ chair (live 7/5/70, the Festival Express Train Tour, Calgary, Canada) [performance previously unissued]
04. Don't do it (live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC) [performance previously unissued]
05. Hard times (The slop)/Just another whistle stop (live 9/14/74, Wembley Stadium, London) [performance previously unissued]
06. The genetic method/Chest fever (live 9/14/74, Wembley Stadium, London) [performance previously unissued]
07. Life is a carnival (live 10/30/76, Saturday Night Live, NYC) [performance previously unissued in its entirety]
08. Stage fright (live 10/30/76, Saturday Night Live, NYC) [performance previously unissued in its entirety]
09. Georgia on my mind (live 10/30/76, Saturday Night Live, NYC) [performance previously unissued]

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