A Musical History (W/DVD)

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Artist: The Band
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Who Do You Love? - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks (mono)
  2. You Know I Love You - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
  3. Further On Up The Road - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
  4. Nineteen Years Old - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
  5. Honky Tonk - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued]
  6. Bacon Fat - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued]
  7. Robbie's Blues - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued]
  8. Leave Me Alone - Levon & The Hawks (mono) [track previously unissued on CD]
  9. 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]
Music CD 2
  1. Katie's Been Gone
  2. Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos
  3. Don't Ya Tell Henry - Bob Dylan & The Band
  4. Tears Of Rage
  5. To Kingdom Come (full-length version) [track previously unissued]
  6. In A Station
  7. The Weight
  8. We Can Talk
  9. 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
  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
Music CD 3
  1. Across The Great Divide
  2. Rag Mama Rag
  3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  4. When You Awake
  5. Up On Cripple Creek
  6. Whispering Pines
  7. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
  8. Get Up Jake
  9. 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]
Music CD 4
  1. Life Is A Carnival
  2. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  3. The Moon Struck One
  4. The River Hymn
  5. Don't Do It [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
  6. Caledonia Mission [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
  7. Smoke Signal [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC] [track previously unissued]
  8. Unfaithful Servant [live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC]
  9. 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]
  17. Mystery Train
Music CD 5
  1. Ain't Got No Home
  2. Share Your Love With Me
  3. Didn't It Rain
  4. Forever Young - Bob Dylan
  5. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (live 2/13/74, The Forum, Inglewood, CA) - Bob Dylan & The Band
  6. Highway 61 Revisited (live 1/31/74, Madison Square Garden, NYC) - Bob Dylan [track previously unissued]
  7. Ophelia
  8. Acadian Driftwood
  9. It Makes No Difference
  10. Twilight (song sketch) [track previously unissued]
  11. Christmas Must Be Tonight
  12. The Saga Of Pepote Rouge
  13. Livin' In A Dream
  14. Forbidden Fruit (live 9/18/76, The Palladium, NYC) [track previously unissued]
  15. Home Cookin' [track previously unissued]
  16. Out Of The Blue
  17. Evangeline - with Emmylou Harris
  18. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (from The Last Waltz, live 11/25/76, Winterland Palace, San Francisco, CA)
  19. The Weight - with The Staples
Music CD 6
  1. Jam/King Harvest (Has Surely Come) (rec. 1970, Robbie's Studio, Woodstock, NY) [performance previously unissued in its entirety] (DVD)
  2. Long Black Veil (live 7/5/70, the Festival Express Train Tour, Calgary, Canada) [performance previously unissued] (DVD)
  3. Rockin' Chair (live 7/5/70, the Festival Express Train Tour, Calgary, Canada) [performance previously unissued] (DVD)
  4. Don't Do It (live 12/28-12/31/71, the Academy of Music, NYC) [performance previously unissued] (DVD)
  5. Hard Times (The Slop)/Just Another Whistle Stop (live 9/14/74, Wembley Stadium, London) [performance previously unissued] (DVD)
  6. The Genetic Method/Chest Fever (live 9/14/74, Wembley Stadium, London) [performance previously unissued] (DVD)
  7. Life Is A Carnival (live 10/30/76, Saturday Night Live, NYC) [performance previously unissued in its entirety] (DVD)
  8. Stage Fright (live 10/30/76, Saturday Night Live, NYC) [performance previously unissued in its entirety] (DVD)
  9. Georgia On My Mind (live 10/30/76, Saturday Night Live, NYC) [performance previously unissued] (DVD)

Music reviews of A Musical History (W/DVD)

Music Review: Tremendous Job
Rating: 5 Stars

We know they were there, that they had their hands in history's filing cabinet.

We know their presence, no matter how clandestine, was indissoluble from the times. They were Rosencrantzes and Guildensterns, silent architects and archival revisionists, supporting characters and, later, leads that commanded marquee cooperation. We know they shape-shifted from juke joint blues to Impressions-istic soul revue, from old timey apparitions to vicious swamp-funk stalwarts.

They're identifiable by names and respective roles — Rick Danko, bass, vocals; Levon Helm, drums, mandolin, vocals; Garth Hudson, keyboards, horns, accordion; Richard Manuel, piano, drums, vocals; Robbie Robertson, guitar, vocals — but nonetheless, is this all enough to prove that a band this versatile, this mutably legendary, even existed? Listen to "Tears of Rage", the opening track on their debut album: it lifts like a time-capsuled meadow fog, as if archaism has been given the deed to modern-day significances. This is the product of men older than themselves, singing from beyond the agreed-upon boundaries of mortality.

The Band: the name alone (so unassuming, so simple, so obvious) speaks to the group's concept of communal anonymity. The Band could never be defined by one man's actions; if they ever accommodated any kind of definition, it was one overwhelmed by mythic mystery. It was an anonymous accomplice in Bob Dylan's amplified plot to set fire to rock 'n' roll's landscape — anonymous not in how it carried out incendiary performances (like the ravenous "Royal Albert Hall" show documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4) but in how it relished the supporting role without crowding Dylan's spotlight.

The Band claimed no responsibility to the upheaval it had incited and instead descended into a more secretive anonymity, hermetically woodshedding new material in upstate New York. It was there, far removed from anything resembling the society of popular music and occasionally in the company of Dylan, that the group would fortify its bond and unearth its true identity. The resulting album, Music From Big Pink, gave little indication of a relevant connection to the realities of 1968. Rob Bowman, in his liner notes to Big Pink's 2000 CD reissue, wrote: "The name of the group, the way it dressed, the full-panel picture of four generations of its next of kin, the lyrics and the music were as far removed from the conventions of that time . . . as possible." Starless anonymity: it could have been anyone.

But the Band wasn't just anyone. It had developed into a distiller of compatible genres, not to mention a ferocious rhythm section, one entrenched in groove and communion. The sessions that predated Big Pink, some of which made their way onto The Basement Tapes, saw the groove, a homegrown pocket of barn owl funk, give birth: "Ain't No More Cane", "Yazoo Street Scandal", and "Don't Ya Tell Henry" were rhythmic watersheds, the sound of a collective translating old Americana into the language of rhythm and blues. Those songs would beget "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "Don't Do It" — the latter an old Holland-Dozier-Holland song, originally recorded by Marvin Gaye as "Baby Don't You Do It" — that became one of the Band's most ferocious and undeniable live statements. As if Helm's impeccably tasty drumming wasn't enough, dig Danko's bass bumps its ass along the kick drum's indentation on tunes like "To Kingdom Come" and "Up on Cripple Creek".

The shared sense of communion, stronger in the earlier days before the complications of fame came calling, was another key factor to the Band's sound. They faced each other when they played in spaces like Big Pink (the divisive structure of recording studios would initially impede their vibe) and played with an all-for-one collectiveness. Their voices (Manuel's plaintive and painful, Danko's like a wrinkled porch dog, Helm's brazenly embodying the Southern characters that Robertson's songs evoked) embraced each other on instinct, coming and going at will, not bound to the song's contract but the music's. In the choruses to "Tears of Rage", Danko's and Manuel's voices enter roughly one second apart; in the first line of the chorus on "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", all of the vocals come in a second or two later than the song's structure dictates they should.

Even though most other bands would focus on tightening their harmonies, these discrepancies don't feel wrong. No frontman or star dominated the group (it is, after all, the Band) and as a result, one of its more subversively radical elements was the co-existing of stylistic fluctuations — its veritable description of unity in action.

For diehards, A Musical History is positively essential: besides the beautiful hardcover book (which includes over 100 pages of photographs, track information, and extensive liner notes by Rob Bowman), the set boasts 33 unreleased tracks. Disc One begins with the Band's first real gig as Ronnie Hawkins's backing band the Hawks and moves into their scrappy R&B period as Levon & the Hawks. Songs like "Leave Me Alone", "Uh Uh Uh", and "He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart)" (the latter a seamless patchwork of Ray Charles and the Impressions) are strong reminders that the Band, while thought of as an originator of contemporary Americana, was really an R&B group at heart. Elements of soul and gospel are glimpsed in the song sketches of "(I Want to Be) The Rainmaker" and "The Stones I Throw", the former a slice of endearingly nonsensical psychedelia and the latter an attempt at Staples Singers-esque universality.

Other unreleased highlights include early, sparse versions of "Jemima Surrender" and "All La Glory", as well as some smoldering live tracks from the Royal Albert Hall in 1971 ("Strawberry Wine", "Look Out Cleveland") and the Rock of Ages show (a rollicking run through Cahoots' "Smoke Signals"). The DVD bears even greater gifts: footage of a wicked tear through "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" from Robertson's Woodstock home in 1970; "Don't Do It" from the Rock of Ages record (!), recently discovered, and worth it for the look of absolute fearful dedication on Helm's face as he wrings his way through the lyric and then works his frustration out on the ride cymbal; a couple of crowd-rousing songs from the "Festival Express" tour; and the Band's three-song appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1976, quite near the end of its road, but alive enough to deliver a shaken version of "Stage Fright".

Regardless of one's opinion on Robertson's selfish mishandling of the Band's communal legacy, he's done a tremendous job of promoting that legacy in one of its most attractive and authoritative offerings. A Musical History is about geneses and mutations, a library of quietly orchestrated innovations. It's a tale of how anonymity was wrangled into something concrete and singular, something of the times and exponentially for the rest of time. The definitive proof is here, in this extravagant pudding, confirming what we know to be true and yet still widening the Band's burden of intrigue.
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Description of A Musical History (W/DVD)

The Band: A Musical History is a labor of love, and Executive Producer/Band member Robbie Robertson has built something truly impressive in the form of this five CD, one DVD, and 108-page hardcover book collection. The book alone will impress just about any music enthusiast. From its candid photographs of artists from Bob Dylan to Janis Joplin, to a detailed history of the Bend written by Grammy Award-winning musicologist Rob Bowman, it's well worth the price of admission. The 102-song collection follows the group's progression from their earliest of days, pre-Band, circa 1963, as background players for Toronto blues/rocker Ronnie Hawkins, to their final studio recording, "Out of the Blue" laid down in 1977. The box also includes 30 previously unreleased songs. On that list you?ll find everything from early versions of Band tunes to "song sketches" (pieces for which the lyrics may have been unfinished, but, as in the case of the late Richard Manuel?s soulful "Beautiful Thing," the emotion is captured just the same. Equally impressive is the DVD, which is filled with newly-issued live performances. These include a rough-but-wonderful songs from the Festival Express train tour, two tracks from a Wembley Stadium concert (admittedly the weakest sonically and visually on the disc) and three songs recorded for Saturday Night Live, including an endearing cover of "Georgia On My Mind." This amazing box set isn't just for Band fans; anyone who loves the music of the '60s and '70s could spend dozens of hours lost in this incredible collection. --Denise Sheppard

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