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Cahoots
#TheBand #cahoots #folkrock #americana #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #levonhelm #amyhelm #robbierobertson #rickdanko #richardmanuel #garthhudson The Band release Cahoots on September 15, 1971. Van Morrison and Libby Titus (Amy Helm's mom) appear and help out with some background vocals. Recorded at Bearsville Studios in New York, the album received mixed reviews. There was some high tension among the boys but they kept it together enough to…
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Cahoots
#TheBand #cahoots #folkrock #americana #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #levonhelm #amyhelm #robbierobertson #rickdanko #richardmanuel #garthhudson The Band release Cahoots on September 15, 1971. Van Morrison and Libby Titus (Amy Helm's mom) appear and help out with some background vocals. Recorded at Bearsville Studios in New York, the album received mixed reviews. There was some high tension among the boys but they kept it together enough to…
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Cahoots
#TheBand #cahoots #folkrock #americana #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #levonhelm #amyhelm #robbierobertson #rickdanko #richardmanuel #garthhudson The Band release Cahoots on September 15, 1971. Van Morrison and Libby Titus (Amy Helm's mom) appear and help out with some background vocals. Recorded at Bearsville Studios in New York, the album received mixed reviews. There was some high tension among the boys but they kept it together enough to…
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Cahoots
#TheBand #cahoots #folkrock #americana #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #levonhelm #amyhelm #robbierobertson #rickdanko #richardmanuel #garthhudson The Band release Cahoots on September 15, 1971. Van Morrison and Libby Titus (Amy Helm's mom) appear and help out with some background vocals. Recorded at Bearsville Studios in New York, the album received mixed reviews. There was some high tension among the boys but they kept it together enough to…
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Cahoots
#TheBand #cahoots #folkrock #americana #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #levonhelm #amyhelm #robbierobertson #rickdanko #richardmanuel #garthhudson The Band release Cahoots on September 15, 1971. Van Morrison and Libby Titus (Amy Helm's mom) appear and help out with some background vocals. Recorded at Bearsville Studios in New York, the album received mixed reviews. There was some high tension among the boys but they kept it together enough to…
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Stage Fright
#StageFright #theband #70srock #classicrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #americana #garthhudson #levonhelm #rickdanko #richardmanuel #robbierobertson #toddrundgren #glynjohns The Band's third album is released on August 17, 1970. Arriving after the triumphs Music From Big Pink and their self-titled second album, the group was balancing their craft with the fraying edges of fame, literal exhaustion and some personal tensions. The album…
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"Music From Big Pink" by The Band was released this day in 1968.
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July 1, 1968
#TheBand #MusicFromBigPink #60smusic #americana #garthhudson #levonhelm #richardmanuel #rickdanko #robbierobertson #rootsrock #music #Musicsky #musiciansky #rock #rockmusic The Band release their debut album. "Big Pink" is the house shared by Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson in West Saugerties, New York. Dylan was there but insisted on staying in the background wanting The Band to make their own debut and statement with the record.
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Mezza mattinata con I Shall Be Released di Bob Dylan
Pare che martedì Bob Dylan – che a 85 anni suonati è ancora in tour – abbia suonato per la prima volta da diciotto anni un suo brano del 1967, I Shall Be Released, registrato per la prima volta insieme alla Band durante le Basement Tapes ma pubblicato solo nel 1991 nei primi tre volumi delle Bootleg Series. Mentre cercavo questa registrazione, mi sono imbattuto in un’altra versione (diversa nel testo e negli arrangiamenti) contenuta nella raccolta Biograph del 1985, che ho poi scoperto essere stata registrata nel 1971 insieme a Happy Traum. Eccole entrambe:
https://youtu.be/bz-QBZeEAtY?si=7Fh0TeZskSQ7d1yj
https://youtu.be/n-gxRCl9cj0?si=jIBRZ5QExnoICD0f
Approfondendo ancora sono finito su Wikipedia, che cito:
Il brano risente dell’influenza della musica gospel, combinando immagini di redenzione religiosa, o liberazione dal peccato, con riferimenti letterali al rilascio di un detenuto dalla prigione. David Yaffe nel suo saggio «The Many Roads of Bob Dylan» descrisse il brano come un «canto di prigionieri redenti». Il cantante descrive la vita dietro le sbarre riflettendo su come ci sia capitato, e concludendo che comunque, alla fine verrà liberato. Lo scrittore Mike Marqusee disse che «il narratore in prima persona della canzone parla da una cella carceraria». Il carcere – e di riflesso la crudeltà e l’ingiustizia del sistema giudiziario – sono motivi ricorrenti nell’opera di Dylan, ma in questa composizione Dylan associa l’idea dell’imprigionamento personale a questioni sociali più grandi combinandole con un ancestrale bisogno di libertà.
La breve ricerca si è conclusa con l’ascolto, in alcuni casi ripetuto, di tutte le versioni del pezzo che ho trovato nella mia discoteca digitale, che ora vi rifilo (parte in linea, parte come link esterni). Oltre alle due di Bob, abbiamo la versione della Band senza Dylan che chiude il loro disco d’esordio del 1968 Music from Big Pink, una versione live della Jerry Garcia Band contenuta nell’omonimo disco dal vivo del 1991 e ben tre cover reggae (sia testualmente che musicalmente il pezzo si prestava molto a essere giamaicanizzato). Ovvero, quella di Jacob Miller (con Sly Dunbar e Robbie Shakespear alla sezione ritmica) contenuta nell’album Jacob “Killer” Miller del 1977, quella degli Heptones contenuta nell’album Party Time (di nuovo 1977, produzione Lee Perry), e quella degli Slackers contenuta nell’album Peculiar (2006).
https://youtu.be/bpiXfumGf9k?si=iyBszd8wZ5-nb8k-
https://youtu.be/SXrqshfLHu4?si=_JKklDMTWq4FVlTS
Stamattina è andata così.
Se volete approfondire ancora vi consiglio la pagina Wikipedia inglese, la fonte dalla quale ho attinto la maggior parte delle informazioni, che elenca decine e decine di altre cover del brano.
#Biograph #BobDylan #carceri #FediRadio #folk #HappyTraum #IShallBeReleased #JacobMiller #JerryGarcia #MusicFromBigPink #PartyTime #reggae #TheBand #TheBootlegSeriesVolumes13 #TheHeptones #TheSlackers -
"The Weight" is a song by Canadian-American #rock band #theBand that was released as a single in 1968 and on the group's debut album #MusicFromBigPink. It was their first release under this name, after their previous releases as Canadian Squires and Levon and the Hawks. Written by Band member #RobbieRobertson, the song is about a visitor's experiences in a town mentioned in the lyric's first line as Nazareth.
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"Music From Big Pink" by The Band was released this day in 1968.
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Last living member of The Band, Garth Hudson, a multi instrumentalist musician has died at age 87 in his sleep in Woodstock NY, same city where #TheBand's much heralded 1968 "#MusicFromBigPink" breakthrough album was recorded.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/garth-hudson-the-band-dead-1234804659/
