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