“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 …
SONG OF THE DAY “Get Me To The Church On Time” by Judy Garland (Judy Takes Broadway! With Friends, Savoy Jazz, 2009). Composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. VIDEO OF THE DAY
“Time/ Fill My Eyes” (Mona Bone Jakon, 1970) “Katmandu” (Mona Bone Jakon, 1970) “I Wish, I Wish” (Mona Bone Jakon, 1970) “I Think I See The Light” (Mona Bone Jakon, 1970) “Trouble” (Mona Bone Jakon, 1970) “Lady D’Arbanville” (Mona Bone Jakon, 1970) “Father & Son” (Tea For Tillerman, 1970) “Miles From Nowhere” (Tea For Tillerman, …
SONG OF THE DAY “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harem (Procol Harum, Deram Records, 1967). Written by Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, and Matthew Fisher. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “Second Life Replay” by The Soundtrack of Our Lives (Communion, Telegram Records/ Akashic Records/ Yep Roc Records, 2008). WHERE I HEARD IT The song played at the end of Season 4 Episode 3 of Showtime’s Californication. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “Lost In My Mind” by The Head & The Heart (The Head And The Heart, Sub Pop Records, 2010). Written by Josiah Johnson, Jon Russell, Charity Thielen, Kenny Hensley, Chris Zasche, & Tyler Williams. WHERE I HEARD IT Season 3 of NBC’s Parenthood. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “If I Go I’m Goin’ ” by Gregory Alan Isakov (This Empty Northern Hemisphere, [self-released], 2009). WHERE I HEARD IT Season 4 of Showtime’s Californication. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “Dharma Lady” by Geronimo Jackson (Magna Carta, ABC, 2009) WHERE I HEARD IT This is the faux band from ABC’s Lost, and, so, yeah, I heard it on Lost. Nowhere else to hear it, right? Wrong! ABC actually released this song as a single on iTunes, so it exists in the …