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Jericho was the tenth long player by Canadian-American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 rockers The Band
The Band

The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
, and the first to feature the latter-day configuration of the group.

Coming a full seventeen years after their "farewell concert"
The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz was a rock concert by the Canadian-American rock group, The Band, held on Thanksgiving , November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco....
, it was their first release for the Rhino subsidiary Pyramid Records. Joining original members Levon Helm
Levon Helm

Mark Lavon Helm , better known as Levon Helm, is an United States rock and roll musician and actor most famous as the drummer for the rock group The Band....
 (drums/mandolin/guitar/vocal), Rick Danko
Rick Danko

Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canada musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band....
 (bass/guitar/vocal) and Garth Hudson
Garth Hudson

Eric Garth Hudson is a Canada musician. As the organ and keyboard instrument for Canada-American Rock music group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound....
 (organ
Organ (music)

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
/keyboards/horns) were Jim Weider
Jim Weider

Jim Weider is a guitarist best known for his work with The Band. He joined the reformed version of The Band in 1985 to replace original guitarist Robbie Robertson....
 (who had played guitar for the group from the time of their 1983 reformation), Randy Ciarlante
Randy Ciarlante

Randy Ciarlante is a musician best known for his work with The Band. He joined The Band in 1990 playing mostly bass guitar and drum kit. He provided vocals during live performances for songs sang by the late Richard Manuel....
 (who had joined on drums in 1990) and Richard Bell
Richard Bell (Canadian musician)

Richard Bell was a Canada musician. Known for his session and live performance work, he is perhaps best remembered as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band and was a keyboardist with The Band during the 1990s....
 (who had joined as keyboardist in 1991).






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Jericho was the tenth long player by Canadian-American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 rockers The Band
The Band

The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
, and the first to feature the latter-day configuration of the group.

Coming a full seventeen years after their "farewell concert"
The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz was a rock concert by the Canadian-American rock group, The Band, held on Thanksgiving , November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco....
, it was their first release for the Rhino subsidiary Pyramid Records. Joining original members Levon Helm
Levon Helm

Mark Lavon Helm , better known as Levon Helm, is an United States rock and roll musician and actor most famous as the drummer for the rock group The Band....
 (drums/mandolin/guitar/vocal), Rick Danko
Rick Danko

Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canada musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band....
 (bass/guitar/vocal) and Garth Hudson
Garth Hudson

Eric Garth Hudson is a Canada musician. As the organ and keyboard instrument for Canada-American Rock music group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound....
 (organ
Organ (music)

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
/keyboards/horns) were Jim Weider
Jim Weider

Jim Weider is a guitarist best known for his work with The Band. He joined the reformed version of The Band in 1985 to replace original guitarist Robbie Robertson....
 (who had played guitar for the group from the time of their 1983 reformation), Randy Ciarlante
Randy Ciarlante

Randy Ciarlante is a musician best known for his work with The Band. He joined The Band in 1990 playing mostly bass guitar and drum kit. He provided vocals during live performances for songs sang by the late Richard Manuel....
 (who had joined on drums in 1990) and Richard Bell
Richard Bell (Canadian musician)

Richard Bell was a Canada musician. Known for his session and live performance work, he is perhaps best remembered as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band and was a keyboardist with The Band during the 1990s....
 (who had joined as keyboardist in 1991). Richard Manuel
Richard Manuel

Richard George Manuel was a Canada composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his contributions and membership in The Band....
 recorded his last recording with The Band on "Country Boy". In addition to this sextet, there are an additional fourteen musicians. Having such a large amount of guests would be commonplace on the latter-day group's albums.

Without Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine?s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
 as lyricist, the group relied on outside sources to supplement their four original tracks. Among those covered were Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
, Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
, Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon

William James "Willie" Dixon was a well-known United States blues bassist, singing, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil ", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It on Home"...
 and folksinger Artie Traum
Artie Traum

Artie Traum was a New Age Voice Award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter. Traum's work appeared on more than 35 albums. He produced and recorded with The Band, Warren Bernhardt, Pat Alger, Tony Levin, John Sebastian, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Eric Anderson, Paul Butterfield, Paul Siebel, Rory Block, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, Da...
.

The painting on the cover is of the house they lived in with Bob Dylan in Saugerties, New York and also in which they recorded their debut album Music From Big Pink
Music from Big Pink

Music from Big Pink is the 1968 debut album by rock music band The Band. It features one of their best-known songs, "The Weight."...
 and which Dylan recorded The Basement Tapes
The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes is a studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records.As Dylan recovered from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in July 1966, he summoned the Band and began to record both new compositions and traditional material with them....
.

Track listing

  1. "Remedy" (Colin Linden
    Colin Linden

    Colin Linden is a Canada musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists, including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King and The Band....
    , Jim Weider
    Jim Weider

    Jim Weider is a guitarist best known for his work with The Band. He joined the reformed version of The Band in 1985 to replace original guitarist Robbie Robertson....
    ) – 4:25
  2. "Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell (song)

    "Blind Willie McTell" is a song by Bob Dylan, titled after the blues singer Blind Willie McTell. It was recorded in 1983 but left off Dylan's album Infidels and officially released in 1991 on the The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 1961-1991....
    " (Bob Dylan) – 6:42
  3. "The Caves of Jericho" (Richard Bell
    Richard Bell (Canadian musician)

    Richard Bell was a Canada musician. Known for his session and live performance work, he is perhaps best remembered as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band and was a keyboardist with The Band during the 1990s....
    , Levon Helm
    Levon Helm

    Mark Lavon Helm , better known as Levon Helm, is an United States rock and roll musician and actor most famous as the drummer for the rock group The Band....
    , Rick Danko
    Rick Danko

    Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canada musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band....
    , John Simon
    John Simon (record producer)

    John Simon is an United States musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band ....
    ) – 5:23
  4. "Atlantic City
    Atlantic City (song)

    "Atlantic City" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska , considered to be one of Springsteen's darker albums in tone....
    " (Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
    ) – 5:16
  5. "Too Soon Gone" (Jules Shear
    Jules Shear

    Jules Mark Shear is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost twenty albums to date....
    , Stan Szelest) – 3:59
  6. "Country Boy" (Marshall Barer, Fred Brooks
    Fred Brooks

    Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month....
    ) – 3:17
  7. "Move to Japan" (Joe Flood, Levon Helm, John Simon, Stan Szelest, Jim Weider) – 4:25
  8. "Amazon (River of Dreams)" (Artie Traum
    Artie Traum

    Artie Traum was a New Age Voice Award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter. Traum's work appeared on more than 35 albums. He produced and recorded with The Band, Warren Bernhardt, Pat Alger, Tony Levin, John Sebastian, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Eric Anderson, Paul Butterfield, Paul Siebel, Rory Block, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, Da...
    ) – 6:00
  9. "Stuff You Gotta Watch" (Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters

    McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
    ) – 2:50
  10. "The Same Thing" (Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon

    William James "Willie" Dixon was a well-known United States blues bassist, singing, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil ", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It on Home"...
    ) – 4:31
  11. "Shine a Light" (Marty Grebb, Daniel Moore
    Daniel Moore

    Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore is an American poet, essayist and libretto. In 1970 he embraced the Sufic tradition of Islam and changed his name to Abdal-Hayy ....
    ) – 4:12
  12. "Blues Stay Away From Me" (Alton & Rabon Delmore, Henry Glover, Wayne Raney) – 6:01


Personnel


The Band

  • Rick Danko
    Rick Danko

    Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canada musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band....
    : Bass guitar, guitars, fiddle, trombone, keyboards, vocals.
  • Levon Helm
    Levon Helm

    Mark Lavon Helm , better known as Levon Helm, is an United States rock and roll musician and actor most famous as the drummer for the rock group The Band....
    : Drums, percussion, mandolin, guitar, vocals.
  • Garth Hudson
    Garth Hudson

    Eric Garth Hudson is a Canada musician. As the organ and keyboard instrument for Canada-American Rock music group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound....
    : Organ, keyboards, accordion, electric piano, saxophones, synthesizers, horns.
  • Richard Manuel
    Richard Manuel

    Richard George Manuel was a Canada composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his contributions and membership in The Band....
    : Piano, keyboards & vocals on "Country Boy."
  • Randy Ciarlante
    Randy Ciarlante

    Randy Ciarlante is a musician best known for his work with The Band. He joined The Band in 1990 playing mostly bass guitar and drum kit. He provided vocals during live performances for songs sang by the late Richard Manuel....
    : Drums, percussion, backing vocals.
  • Rick Bell
    Richard Bell (Canadian musician)

    Richard Bell was a Canada musician. Known for his session and live performance work, he is perhaps best remembered as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band and was a keyboardist with The Band during the 1990s....
    : Keyboards, organ, piano, accordion, backing vocals.
  • Jim Weider
    Jim Weider

    Jim Weider is a guitarist best known for his work with The Band. He joined the reformed version of The Band in 1985 to replace original guitarist Robbie Robertson....
    : Guitars, backing vocals.


Guest musicians

  • John Simon
    John Simon (record producer)

    John Simon is an United States musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band ....
    : Electric piano, horns, saxophones.
  • Stan Szelest: Electric piano
    Electric piano

    An electric piano is an electric musical instrument. The popularity of the electric piano began to grow in the late 1960s, reaching its greatest height during the 1970s....
     on “Atlantic City” & “Blind Willie McTell”.
  • Champion Jack Dupree
    Champion Jack Dupree

    William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an United States blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910....
    : Piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
     on “Blind Willie McTell”.
  • Vassar Clements
    Vassar Clements

    Vassar Clements was an United States virtuoso Jazz music and Bluegrass music fiddler....
    : Fiddle
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
     on “The Caves Of Jericho” and “Stuff You Gotta Watch”.
  • Erie Brazilian: Mandolin
    Mandolin

    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
     on “Atlantic City”.
  • Rob Hyman
    Rob Hyman

    Robert Andrew "Rob" Hyman is an American singer, songwriter, Keyboard instrument player, accordion player, record producer, arranger and recording studio owner, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters....
    : Keyboards
    Keyboard instrument

    A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
     on “Atlantic City”.
  • Steve Jordan
    Steve Jordan (musician)

    File:??????? ??????? ??????? ?????.jpgSteve Jordan is an United States multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and music producer from New York City....
    : drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
     on “Blues Stay Away From Me”.
  • Jules Shear
    Jules Shear

    Jules Mark Shear is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost twenty albums to date....
    : backing vocals
    Harmony

    In Western music, harmony is the use of different pitches simultaneously, and chord s, actual or implied, in music. The word is related to the word "harmonic" which implies related wavelengths of waves....
     on “Too Soon Gone”.
  • Tommy Spurlock: Steel guitar
    Steel guitar

    Steel guitar is a type of guitar and/or the method of playing the instrument. The name steel guitar comes not from the material of which the guitar is made, but from the name of the steel, a slide held in the left hand....
     on “The Caves Of Jericho”.
  • Artie Traum
    Artie Traum

    Artie Traum was a New Age Voice Award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter. Traum's work appeared on more than 35 albums. He produced and recorded with The Band, Warren Bernhardt, Pat Alger, Tony Levin, John Sebastian, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Eric Anderson, Paul Butterfield, Paul Siebel, Rory Block, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, Da...
    : Acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar

    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only acoustic methods to project the sound produced by its strings. The term is a retronym, coined after the advent of electric guitars, which depend on electronic amplification to make their sound audible....
     on “Amazon (River Of Dreams)”.
  • Colin Linden
    Colin Linden

    Colin Linden is a Canada musician, songwriter and record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of artists, including Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Colin James, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King and The Band....
    : Backing vocals on “Amazon (River Of Dreams)”.
  • Bobby Strickland: Tenor
    Tenor saxophone

    The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
     and baritone saxophone
    Baritone saxophone

    The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the larger and lower pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax....
    s on “Remedy” and “Stuff You Gotta Watch”.
  • Dave Douglas
    Dave Douglas (trumpeter)

    Dave Douglas is a United States jazz trumpeter and composer whose music is notable for drawing on many non-jazz musical styles, including classical music, European folk music and klezmer....
    : Trumpet
    Trumpet

    The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
     on “Remedy” and “Stuff You Gotta Watch”.
  • Rob Leon: Bass guitar
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
     on “Too Soon Gone”, “Amazon” and “The Caves Of Jericho”.


Production

  • The Band: Producers
    Record producer

    In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
    .
  • Aaron Hurwitz: Producer & engineer.
  • John Simon
    John Simon (record producer)

    John Simon is an United States musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band ....
    : Producer.
  • Chris Andersen
    Chris Andersen

    Chris Andersen , nicknamed Birdman, or Birdzilla is an United States professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association, currently of the Denver Nuggets....
    : Engineer.
  • Steve Churchyard: Engineer.