• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – Levon Helm Tribute Week

    Another track off that great 1969 album, The Band, and another track with the gritty, powerful lead vocals of the late, great Levon Helm, is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”. According to Rob Bowman’s liner notes to the 2000 reissue of The Band’s second album, The Band, it has been viewed as a …

  • Up on Cripple Creek – Levon Helm Tribute Week

    Levon Helm sang lead vocals and played drums on this iconic song recorded for 1969’s eponymous second album from The Band. A live performance of “Up on Cripple Creek” also appears in The Band’s live concert film The Last Waltz and it’s accompanying soundtrack. In addition, a live version of the song appears on Before …

  • Other Side of the Game by Erykah Badu

    SONG OF THE DAY “Other Side of the Game” by Erykah Badu (Live, Kedar/ Uni­ver­sal, 1997) VIDEO OF THE DAY and the live version I love:

  • Stay by Rufus & Chaka Khan

    SONG OF THE DAY “Stay” by Rufus & Chaka Khan (Street Player, ABC Records, 1978). Written by Richard Calhoun & Chaka Khan. VIDEO OF THE DAY