The Band Web Site
News and Updates, 2018
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Photo © copyright Elliott Landy. All rights reserved.75 years ago, on December 29, 1943, Rick Danko was born. He is deeply missed. The music will live forever.
- New article from Rolling Stone magazine: "The Band's Essential Albums: A guide to their best and most overlooked LPs"
- More wonderful archive stuff from Dag B., 70(!) pages this time: The Band in Concert, 1970
- Yet another lovely compilation of historic material from our friend Dag B.:
The Band in Concert, 1969
- Searching for the perfect Christmas gift for your favorite Band/Dylan fan? Search no more: Holiday sale on Elliott Landy's Fine Art Prints!
- 1995 - Todd Rundgren on The Band's 'Stage Fright' -- interview snippet on YouTube.
- Tomorrow, Saturday Nov 24th, in Chicago, IL: The Zimmermen plus guests salute The Last Waltz, featuring our very own Pat B.!
- "CBC RetroBits: The Last Waltz" -- good quality 1978 TV interview with Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese. Thanks to Peter Stekel for sending us the link.
- Guess who is featured in the new book The Story of The Band. Nice one, John!
- Fantastic compilation of historic material from our friend Dag B.: The Band's Public Appearances in 1976
- "Butch Trucks On Watkins Glen: 'The Band Was Drunk, Dead Tripping And Allman Brothers Band Coked Out'"
- "Quick Hits: Levon Helm Performs 'The Weight'"
- More photos downloaded from social media the last two months.
- New book from Harvey & Ken Kubernik: The Story of The Band - From Big Pink to The Last Waltz.
- "Toronto musician buried in wrong grave to be remembered at a 'great celebration of life'" -- a strange and sad story about the death of Scott 'Professor Piano' Cushnie, who played with Robbie Robertson the '50s and later with other members of The Band behind Ronnie Hawins.
- "Exploring deep cuts from The Band's Music from Big Pink"
- Garth & Maud Hudson live in Kingston, NY 10.28.2018!:
- "One Voice For All: 'Music From Big Pink' At 50 (Clash Magazine)
- "April 17, 1969 ~ The Band At Winterland ~ The First Waltz" -- a great first hand account of the Band's maiden show complete with photos.
- The Band (w/The Cate Bros.) opened for ZZ Top in September 1976, according to Wikipedia! If so, this was their last gig before The Last Waltz.
- "(The Band) Live from Mandel Hall, 33 years later" (The Chicago Maroon)
- "Bob Dylan 1960s Live Rarities Collection Gets Wide Release" (Rolling Stone)
- Levon & The Hawks doing "Go Go Liza Jane" at the Onyx Club in Oklahoma City (YouTube audio clip)
- Garth & Maud Hudson live in Kingston, NY 10.28.2018!:
- Oct 13th at Victor Records in Camden, NJ:
Celebrating The 40th Anniversary Of The Last Waltz - An Evening Of Bob Dylan & The Band, By Graham Alexander & Co. Featuring GARTH HUDSON and Sister Maud Hudson!
For tickets and more info: victorrecords.com.
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- Garth Hudson and Sister Maud Hudson will perform in Kingston, NY on Sunday, Oct 28, 2018:
RAYMOND FOYE PRESENTS: GARTH HUDSON + HIGH WATER
For tickets and more info, see bspkingston.com.
Performing Live Soundtracks to the Films of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson with SISTER MAUD HUDSON Performing Selections from Harry Smiths Folkways Anthology and Songs by The Band, Bob Dylan & others. Special guest Peter Silberman.
- It's Sister Maud Hudson's birthday! We're celebrating by listening to the wonderful "Garth Largo", released 20 years ago as part of the Largo concept album. Beautifully arranged and played by maestro Garth Hudson, with Maud sprinkling her vocal magic all over the track.
- Copper Magazine ran a pretty good two-part "history of The Band" in their November and December 2017 issues:
- A little Garth magic for all to enjoy: Video clip (.MOV-file) from the BBC program series Classic Albums' episode about the brown album (aka The Band).
- On October 13th, Garth Hudson and Sister Maud Hudson will perform at The Vault of Victor Records in Berlin, New Jersey. For details and tickets, see victorrecords.com.
- The ultimate review of the Music from Big Pink 50th Anniversary Edition can be found at the legendary Peter Viney's blog site.
- More photos downloaded from social media the last two months.
- "The Band's Music From Big Pink: 50th Anniversary Edition -- The new remix of this vastly influential album is so brilliant it makes your teeth hurt", review from Variety.
- "The Band's Music From Big Pink 50th Anniversary Box Set Puts a New Shine on an Old Classic", review from Rolling Stone.
- "The Band's Robbie Robertson Looks Back On 50 Years Of 'Music From Big Pink'", NPR radio program with comments from Robbie.
- "Robbie Robertson on Reissue of The Band's 'Music From Big Pink': 'I Hear Things That I Never Heard Before'", from Billboard Magazine.
- "Robbie Robertson on The Band's Music From Big Pink 50: 'It Sounds Like The Band I Remember'", interview from The Daily Beast.
- "Robbie Robertson Reflects On Music From Big Pink 50 Years Later", from udiscovermusic.com.
- "Robbie Robertson On 50 Years of "Music From Big Pink", radio interview from NYC.
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Audience video
of Garth and Sister Maud Hudson, live at the Huichica Music Festival, August 24th, 2018, at Chaseholm Farms, Pine Plains, NY. Earlier the same evening, Garth had guested on Mercury Rev's multi-media performance. Garth and Maud played a set of songs by The Band, that included "The Weight", "The Genetic Method", "I Shall Be Released", and "It Makes No Difference".
- Garth Hudson and Sister Maud Hudson will be performing at the
Huichica Music Festival in Pine Plains, NY,
on Friday, August 24.
- New article from Billboard magazine: "Levon Helm's Arkansas Home Added to Historic Register"
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It's Garth Hudson's 81st birthday today! We send our best wishes to Garth and Sister Maud Hudson.
- More photos downloaded from social media last month.
- This is pretty cool: Japanese 1977 poster for Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars
- New radio interview from CBC Canada: "Robbie Robertson shares his favourite memories from recording Music From Big Pink"
- In August 2018, Capitol/Universal Music Enterprises will release the following
expanded/ remastered/ remixed 50th anniversary editions of The Band's debut album Music from Big Pink:
- The 50th anniversary Big Pink editions and paraphernalia can be ordered from officialtheband.com.
- See and hear the contents of the new
Music from Big Pink 50th anniversary box set in this
YouTube video:
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- From Billboard: "The Band's 'Music From Big Pink' Turns 50: How Upstate New York Informed the Americana Classic"
- Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of The Band's debut album,
Music from Big Pink --
still our favorite album of all times. Here are a couple of articles from the net marking the event:
- "The Band's 'Music From Big Pink': 10 Things You Didn't Know" (Rolling Stone magazine)
- "50 Years On, The Band's 'Music From Big Pink' Haunts Us Still" (NPR)
- If you listened to The Band after their '90s comeback, you want to read this: "Five Great Songs I Helped Create With The Band", by Aaron "Professor Louie" Hurwitz.
- Amy Helm has recorded a new album, due this fall and available for preorder from amyhelm.com. The title track, "This Too Shall Light", is out now, check out the review (and listen to the song) at the Rolling Stone web site.
- From Maud Hudson, posted on Facebook recently:
WEDNESDAY June 20th - MASNY Annual Jubillee - NYC ... Garth Hudson and Sister Maud Hudson will be guests on a Blues Cruise with Bear Tread, Gent Treadly ... COME JOIN US ... $100.00 per ticket for dinner, cocktails, music, and a cruise! This is a charity event for children and musicians. Click on link for tickets, location, and other details: musicians-aid.com.
- Elvis' drummer D.J. Fontana passed away this week. Here are some great photos from 1996 of D.J. with The Band, Keith Richards and Scotty Moore (also from Elvis' original backing band), recording the song "Deuce & A Quarter" with Levon and Keith sharing vocal duties.
- Pretty good article about "the brown album", recently posted on Pitchfork.
- Photo of Dylan, Robbie and Rick at a UK press conference for the 1969 Isle of Wight festival.
- Added photo of a '70s billboard with The Band from Los Angeles. The photo appears in Jon Landau's NPR photo book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip.
- As this web site (celebrating its 25th anniversary next year) continues to gather dust in our little corner of the internet, social media are still full of The Band fans sharing photos, videos and stories. Here are a bunch of photos, more or less randomly downloaded over the last months from various Facebook groups dedicated to "our boys".
- May you rest in peace, Yvonne Staples.
- Unedited radio interview with Rick Danko, Blondie Chaplin, Gene Clark, and Richard Manuel, recorded after a Washington D.C. gig in 1985.
- Interview with Levon Helm, 1986
- Added two pics of Robbie in session for Willie Nelson in 1998. We weren't aware of this collab, thanks to Tom Erik Øgland for the info.
- New article/video interview from Rolling Stone magazine: "Watch Robbie Robertson Talk Dylan's Storied 'Going Electric' Guitar"
- 75 years ago, on April 3rd 1943, the great Richard Manuel was born. Too soon gone.
- Rest in peace, Little Sammy Davis.
- New album from The Weight Band, featuring The Band's Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante, with contributions from Levon Helm: World Gone Mad, release date February 23.
- Mickey Jones, who took over the drum stool in the Hawks/Band when Levon Helm left the Bob Dylan tour in 1966, died this week. To learn more about Jones and his work with Dylan and The Band, check out this fine interview done exclusively for The Band web site by our friend Carol Caffin 11 years ago.
- Lovely drawing of The Band by the very talented Raúl González Rago
- Added school photos of Rick and Terry Danko, and Levon Helm.