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The Band is the eponymous second album by 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 ....
, released on September 22, 1969.

he Band peaked at #9 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. In 2000, it recharted on Billboard's Internet Albums chart, peaking at #10. The singles "Rag Mama Rag" and "Up on Cripple Creek
Up on Cripple Creek

"Up on Cripple Creek" is the 5th song on The Band's eponymous second album, The Band . It was released as a single and reached #25 on the Billboard pop chart....
" peaked on the Pop Singles chart at #57 and #25 respectively.

The album includes many of The Band's best-known and critically acclaimed songs.






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The Band is the eponymous second album by 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 ....
, released on September 22, 1969.

Album details

The Band peaked at #9 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. In 2000, it recharted on Billboard's Internet Albums chart, peaking at #10. The singles "Rag Mama Rag" and "Up on Cripple Creek
Up on Cripple Creek

"Up on Cripple Creek" is the 5th song on The Band's eponymous second album, The Band . It was released as a single and reached #25 on the Billboard pop chart....
" peaked on the Pop Singles chart at #57 and #25 respectively.

The album includes many of The Band's best-known and critically acclaimed songs. In 2003, the album was ranked number 45 on Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
 magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003.Related news articles:* The list was based on the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics and industry figures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums....
. In 1998 Q magazine
Q (magazine)

Q is a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, with a circulation of 130,179 as of June 2007.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology — from artists suc...
 readers voted The Band the 76th greatest album of all time.

According to the liner notes to the 2000 reissue of "The Band" by Rob Bowman, the album, "The Band", has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on people, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana.

With The Band, 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....
 emerged as The Band's primary songwriter: While Robertson and Richard Manuel largely shared songwriting duties on the prior 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."...
, Robertson wrote or co-wrote every song on The Band, with Manuel receiving co-writing credit on three tracks; Robertson would write the majority of The Band's material after this album. Robertson's songwriting also gained new sophistication and complexity, drawing from historic themes for "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by Canadian musician Robbie Robertson, first recorded by The Band in 1969 and released on their The Band ....
" and "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

"King Harvest " is a song written by Robbie Robertson for The Band which originally appeared as the final track on their second album, The Band ....
" and composing "Jawbone" in the unusual 6/4 time signature
Time signature

The time signature is a notational convention used in Western culture musical notation to specify how many beat s are in each bar and what note value constitutes one beat....
.

Track listing

  1. "Across the Great Divide" (Robertson) – 2:53
  2. "Rag Mama Rag" (Robertson) – 3:04
  3. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
    The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

    "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by Canadian musician Robbie Robertson, first recorded by The Band in 1969 and released on their The Band ....
    " (Robertson) – 3:33
  4. "When You Awake" (Manuel, Robertson) – 3:13
  5. "Up on Cripple Creek
    Up on Cripple Creek

    "Up on Cripple Creek" is the 5th song on The Band's eponymous second album, The Band . It was released as a single and reached #25 on the Billboard pop chart....
    " (Robertson) – 4:34
  6. "Whispering Pines" (Manuel, Robertson) – 3:58
  7. "Jemima Surrender" (Helm, Robertson) – 3:31
  8. "Rockin' Chair" (Robertson) – 3:43
  9. "Look Out Cleveland
    Look Out Cleveland

    ""Look Out Cleveland"" is the title of the ninth song listed on The Band's self-titled album, also known as The_Band_....
    " (Robertson) – 3:09
  10. "Jawbone" (Manuel, Robertson) – 4:20
  11. "The Unfaithful Servant" (Robertson) – 4:17
  12. "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
    King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

    "King Harvest " is a song written by Robbie Robertson for The Band which originally appeared as the final track on their second album, The Band ....
    " (Robertson) – 3:39

Bonus tracks from 2000 CD re-release

  2. "Get Up Jake" (outtake - stereo mix) (Robertson) – 2:17
  3. "Rag Mama Rag" (alternate vocal take - rough mix) (Robertson) – 3:05
  4. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (alternate mix) (Robertson) – 4:16
  5. "Up on Cripple Creek" (alternate take) (Robertson) – 4:51
  6. "Whispering Pines" (alternate take) (Manuel, Robertson) – 5:09
  7. "Jemima Surrender" (alternate take) (Helm, Robertson) – 3:48
  8. "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" (alternate arrangement) (Robertson) – 4:28


Personnel

  • Rick Danko
    Rick Danko

    Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canada musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band....
     – bass
    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...
    , 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....
    , trombone
    Trombone

    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
    , Vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  • 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
    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....
    , 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...
    , rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar

    Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
    , Vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  • 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....
    ; clavinet
    Clavinet

    Not to be confused with clarinetA Clavinet is an electrophone keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar....
    ; 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....
    ; accordion
    Accordion

    The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox....
    ; melodica
    Melodica

    The melodica, also known as 'blow-organ' is a free-reed instrument similar to the accordion and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument....
    ; soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones
    Saxophone

    The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
    ; slide 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....
    ; bass pedals
    Keyboard bass

    The keyboard bass is the use of a low-pitched keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the bass guitar or double bass in popular music....
  • 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
    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....
    , 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....
    , 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....
    , harmonica
    Harmonica

    The harmonica is a free reed aerophone wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes....
    , Vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  • Jaime 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....
     – guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
    s, 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
    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....
    , tuba
    Tuba

    The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped Mouthpiece ....
    , 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....
    , baritone horn
    Baritone horn

    The baritone horn, or simply baritone, is a member of the brass family of instruments. Like others of the family, the tuba, euphonium, alto horn, flugelhorn and bugle the instrument has a conical bore....
    , tenor saxophone
    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....
    , "high school and peck horns", engineer
  • Tony May – engineer
  • Joe Zagarino – engineer
  • Elliot Landy – photography


Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)
YearChartPosition
1970Pop Albums9
2000Top Internet Albums10


Singles - Billboard (North America)
YearSingleChartPosition
1970"Rag Mama Rag"Pop Singles57
1970"Up on Cripple Creek"Pop Singles25


See also

  • Classic Albums
    Classic Albums

    Classic Albums is a documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of pop and rock music....