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The band members (from left to right: Björn, Anni-Frid, Agnetha, and Benny) in Rotterdam, October 1979. On 13 September 1979, ABBA began ABBA: The Tour at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Canada, with a full house of 14,000.
The discography of the Band, a rock group, consists of ten studio albums, nine live albums, nine compilation albums, and thirty-three singles, as well as two studio and two live albums in collaboration with Bob Dylan. They were active from 1964 to 1976, and from 1983 to 1999.
In late December 1971, The Band recorded the live album Rock of Ages, which was released in the summer of 1972. On Rock of Ages, they were bolstered by the addition of a horn section, with arrangements written by Toussaint.
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Music From Big Pink
“We were rebelling against the rebellion,” Robbie Robertson said years later of the group’s defiantly wholesome outlook circa their debut LP, summed up by their decision to pose with their extended family members on the album’s inside sleeve. In the process, they created a new pastoral vision of rock. The group staked its claim to heartfelt subtlety and homegrown feeling right from the start, kicking off the record with wrenching, molasses-paced ballad “Tears of Rage.” The tracks that followe...
The Band
If Big Pinkwas a collection of great songs, its follow-up felt more like a single sprawling tale told in chapters. The tracks introduced Faulknerian characters like proud Southerner Virgil Caine (“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”), an aging seaman and his trusty mate Ragtime Willie (“Rockin’ Chair”), and a hard-luck farmer turned card-carrying “union man” (“King Harvest (Has Surely Come)”). They also showed the Band further honing both their funky and forlorn sides — see “Up on Cripple Cr...
Bob Dylan and the Band, The Basement Tapes
The original Basement Tapes double LP (later expanded massively) remains integral to the group’s status as roots-rock patron saints. In that fabled room below Big Pink, the musicians helped Bob Dylan achieve some of his loosest, silliest, performances (“Million Dollar Bash,” “Tiny Montgomery,” “Please, Mrs. Henry”), as well as a handful of his most poignant (“Goin’ to Acapulco,” his rendition of Music From Big Pinkopener “Tears of Rage”). And the tracks without Dylan, many of which were studi...
Stage Fright
By 1970, drugs and toxic fame were already eating away at the Band’s famous early-years solidarity. But whatever was looming, the songs here are as strong as what came before, from lovely ballads “Sleeping” and “All La Glory” to Band-wheelhouse down-home rockers like “Just Another Whistle Stop” and “The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show.” On the title track, a future Last Waltzstandout, Danko perfectly captured the mood of a pack of road dogs on the verge of burnout.
Cahoots
A little spottier than its predecessors, Cahootsstill has high points that will make you wonder why it’s so often marginalized in discussions of the group’s output. Side One, in particular, is glorious, from festive roots-funk opener “Life Is a Carnival” to typically brilliant lead-vocal turns by Helm, Manuel and Danko (respectively, “When I Paint My Masterpiece, “Last of the Blacksmiths” and “Where Do We Go From Here?”), and “4% Pantomime,” a roaring duet between Manuel and Van Morrison that...
Bob Dylan and the Band, Before the Flood
Four fifths of the Band (then known as the Hawks) appear on Dylan’s classic 1966 “Royal Albert Hall” live album — Helm had split when the booing got out of hand — but Before the Flood, recorded at the end of a triumphant 1974 tour, marks the only official live Dylan release to feature the entire group. A track like the scorching “All Along the Watchtower,” with Helm setting a breakneck tempo and Robertson and Hudson trading virtuosic leads, plainly shows that Dylan never had a better backing...
Moondog Matinee
“That was all we could do at the time,” Helm said of the increasingly conflict-ridden group’s decision to fill its fifth album with covers of rock and R&B songs they loved. If nothing here matches the Band’s stellar version of Marvin Gaye’s “Don’t Do It” (heard on both Rock of Ages and The Last Waltz), this one’s worth hearing for Helm’s spot-on version of Clarence “Frogman” Henry’s “Ain’t Got No Home,” complete with loopy vocal effects; Manuel’s tender take on “Share Your Love”; and a whimsi...
Islands
If you never thought you needed a Band Christmas number in your life, you haven’t heard Rick Danko sing “Come down to the manger/See the little stranger” on the insanely charming “Christmas Must Be Tonight.” Other highlights on this final LP by the Band’s original incarnation include the fun singalong “The Saga of Pepote Rouge” and Manuel’s lovely take on his idol Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind.”
Jericho
The group’s comeback album, and their first studio LP without Robertson, has its missteps (if you’re a Levon Helm fan who’s never heard the crude cultural caricature that is “Move to Japan,” try to keep it that way) but mostly finds Helm, Danko and Hudson slipping effortlessly into their old groove with help from new members Jim Weider, Randy Ciarlante and Richard Bell. Danko and Helm’s take on Dylan’s “Blind Willie McTell,” which eventually prompted Dylan himself to start performing the song...
“Further on Up the Road”
Recorded while the future Band members were still working as Ronnie Hawkins’ back-up group, this consummately loose, Helm-sung take on a 1957 Bobby “Blue” Bland hit — featuring saxophone from then sixth member Jerry Penfound and plenty of space for Robertson’s already-extraordinary lead work — gives more than a hint of the greatness that was in store.
On what would become Hawkins’ signature song, he and the Hawks teased out the wilder side of the Bo Diddley classic. The group matches the leader’s wild howls with a raucous instrumental rave-up featuring Robertson’s snarling guitar, Manuel’s pounding piano, and Danko and Helm’s insistent pulse.
Dylan sounds like he’s accompanied by a rock & roll orchestra on this rollicking non-album single, recorded with the Hawks in the studio after the Highway 61sessions and before the members embarked with Dylan on his fateful ’66 electric tour.
Levon Helm With Stephen Davis, This Wheel’s on Fire
Helm’s straight-talking memoir is the definitive version of the Band’s saga, starting with his humble beginnings in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas; moving through the mid-show brawls and after-hours orgies of the Hawks era; chronicling the group’s high-flying Sixties peaks; and winding toward a tragic conclusion with the deaths of Manuel and Danko. There’s celebration of brotherhood here, but also savage bitterness at Robertson’s decision to break up the group. “Do it, puke, and get out,” he writes...
basic tracks recorded at the warehouse studio, vancouver, canada over a few sessions starting in 2005 ending in december 2007. all tracks were recorded on a vintage neve 6630 desk, into protools. vocals were recorded in houses in switzerland and the grenadine islands, W.I. additional recording was done in hotel rooms and backstage concert areas ...
Just a week before the biggest concert in the band‘s history, which will be held on June 11th in the largest park of Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, ba. released another musical gem called "Purvo Gerkle".
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The Band. The former Bob Dylan backing band who ushered in the roots-rock of the '70s, embodying Americana in a way that no one else has approached. Read Full Biography.
