“Bags & Trane” by Milt Jackson & John Coltrane (Bags & Trane, Atlantic Records, 1961). I heard it while watching the documentary Chops about high school jazz bands competing in a Duke Ellington competition at Jazz At Lincoln Center in New York.
SONG OF THE DAY “Love Is A First” by The Tragically Hip (We are the Same, Universal Records, 2009). VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “The Weight (Live)” by Gillian Welch & Old Crow Medicine Show. Written by Robbie Robertson. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “Everybody’s Talkin’ ” by Tedeschi Trucks Band (Everybody’s Talkin’, Sony Legacy, May 22, 2012). Written by Fred Neil. WHERE I HEARD IT Woodstock Radio!! INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) Tedeschi Trucks Band will release their first live album, Everybody’s Talkin’, on May 22. The double CD, which was recorded in October …
“Ophelia”, a Robbie Robertson original, is Ramble at the Ryman’s first track. The 2011 live album was recorded by American rock multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm during his September 17, 2008 performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The album features six songs by The Band and other cover material, including songs from previous Helm solo releases. Helm’s band …
“A Train Robbery” is track 9 on The Levon Helm Band’s critically acclaimed 2007 album, Dirt Farmer. The album was Helm’s first studio album since 1982. The album contains covers of songs by Steve Earle and J. B. Lenoir, and features his daughter Amy, as well as ex-Bob Dylan sideman Larry Campbell. It won the …
“The Weight” was released by The Band as Capitol Records single 2269 in 1968, and appeared one week later on the group’s debut album Music from Big Pink. The song is listed as #41 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004, and Pitchfork Media named it the thirteenth best song …
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 …
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 …