A Musical History

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"OK... here it is, I can really sign off on this; the definitive musical history of The Band"
-- Robbie Robertson, Ice magazine, August 2005

Among the previously unreleased audio tracks here are live and studio recordings The Band created with Bob Dylan and Ronnie Hawkins, as well as various song sketches. The DVD's nine film clips include previously unreleased concert performances, a filmed studio jam, and three songs The Band performed on "Saturday Night Live" in 1976, never before issued in their entirety.

The boxed set, which was overseen by Robbie Robertson with producers Cheryl Pawelski and Andrew Sandoval, comes packaged with a 108-page hardbound book with previously unseen photos and memorabilia, and a cover painting of The Band by world-renowned artist Ed Ruscha.

On the rather inexpensive 67-track iTunes version of A Musical History, the tracklisting is quite different, disc 1 and the DVD are completely absent, and also tracks with Dylan and others are omitted, but it includes a previously unissued(?) live version of "I Shall Be Released."

Sound samples, purchase info. and more available from Capitol Records' official web site for the boxed set, thebandmusic.net.

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Who Do You Love - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
2. You Know I Love You - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
3. Further On Up The Road - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
4. Nineteen Years Old - Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
5. Honky Tonk - Levon & The Hawks #
6. Bacon Fat - Levon & The Hawks #
7. Robbie's Blues - Levon & The Hawks #
8. Uh Uh Uh - Levon & The Hawks (released as: Canadian Squires) *
9. Leave Me Alone - Levon & The Hawks (released as: Canadian Squires) *
10. He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart) - Levon & The Hawks
11. (I Want To Be) The Rainmaker (song sketch) #
12. The Stones I Throw (song sketch) #
13. The Stones I Throw - Levon & The Hawks
14. Go Go Liza Jane - Levon & The Hawks
15. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Bob Dylan (single version)
16. Tell Me Mama - Bob Dylan #
17. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Bob Dylan **
18. Beautiful Thing (song sketch) #
19. Words And Numbers (song sketch) #
20. You Don't Come Through (song sketch) #
21. Caledonia Mission (song sketch) #
22. Odds And Ends
23. Ferdinand The Imposter
24. Ruben Remus
25. Will The Circle Be Unbroken #

Disc 2

1. Katie's Been Gone
2. Ain't No More Cane
3. Don't Ya Tell Henry
4. Tears Of Rage
5. To Kingdom Come (full-length version) #
6. In A Station
7. The Weight
8. We Can Talk
9. Long Black Veil
10. Chest Fever
11. Lonesome Suzie (alternate version)
12. This Wheel's On Fire
13. I Shall Be Released
14. Yazoo Street Scandal #
15. I Ain't Got No Home (w/ Bob Dylan)
16. Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast)
17. Baby Lou #
18. Long Distance Operator #
19. Key To The Highway #
20. Bessie Smith

Disc 3

1. Across The Great Divide
2. Rag Mama Rag
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
4. When You Awake
5. Up On Cripple Creek
6. Whispering Pines
7. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
8. Get Up Jake
9. Jemima Surrender (early version) #
10. Daniel & The Sacred Harp (alternate take)
11. Time To Kill
12. All La Glory (early version) #
13. The Shape I'm In
14. Stage Fright
15. The Rumor
16. Slippin' & Slidin' #
17. Don't Do It
18. Strawberry Wine #
19. Rockin' Chair #
20. Look Out Cleveland #
21. 4% Pantomime #

Disc 4

1. Life Is A Carnival
2. When I Paint My Masterpiece
3. The Moon Struck One
4. The River Hymn
5. Don't Do It
6. Caledonia Mission
7. Smoke Signal #
8. Unfaithful Servant **
9. W.S. Walcott Medicine Show **
10. Genetic Method **
11. Chest Fever **
12. (I Don't Want To Hang Up My) Rock `N' Roll Shoes **
13. Loving You (Is Sweeter Than Ever) **
14. Endless Highway
15. Move Me (song sketch) #
16. Two Piano Song #
17. Mystery Train

Disc 5

1. Ain't Got No Home
2. Share Your Love
3. Didn't It Rain
4. Forever Young-Bob Dylan
5. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35-Bob Dylan
6. Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan #
7. Ophelia
8. Acadian Driftwood
9. It Makes No Difference
10. Twilight (song sketch) #
11. Christmas Must Be Tonight
12. The Saga Of Pepote Rouge
13. Livin' In A Dream
14. Forbidden Fruit #
15. Home Cookin' #
16. Out Of The Blue
17. Evangeline (w/ Emmylou Harris)
18. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
19. The Weight (w/ The Staples)

Disc 6 - DVD

1. Jam/King Harvest ***
   1970 Robbie's Studio - Woodstock, NY

2. Long Black Veil #
   7/5/70 - Festival Express Train Tour - Calgary, Canada

3. Rockin' Chair #
   7/5/70 - Festival Express Train Tour - Calgary, Canada

4. Don't Do It - Rock Of Ages #
   December 28-31, 1971 Academy Of Music - NYC

5. Hard Times (The Slop)//Just Another Whistle Stop #
   Noble "Thin Man" Watts/Richard Manuel/Robbie Robertson, 9/14/74 Wembley Stadium - London

6. Genetic Method/Chest Fever #
   9/14/74 Wembley Stadium - London

7. Life Is A Carnival ***
   10/30/76 Saturday Night Live - NYC

8. Stage Fright ***
   10/30/76 Saturday Night Live - NYC

9. Georgia On My Mind ***
   10/30/76 Saturday Night Live - NYC

# = Track previously unissued
*** = Performance previously unissued in its entirety

Credits

• Compilation Produced & Compiled By: Robbie Robertson, Cheryl Pawelski & Andrew Sandoval
• Production Resources: Garth Hudson
• Project Coordinator: Jared Levine
• Tape Research: Andrew Sandoval & Cheryl Pawelski
• Mastered at Digiprep by Dan Hersch & Andrew Sandoval
• Mixed By Patrick MacDougal, Summer 2004
• Liner Notes: Rob Bowman
• Editorial Assistance: Audrey Bilger
• Track Research & Annotation: Cheryl Pawelski & Rob Bowman
• A&R Editorial: Sean Quinn
• Business Affairs & Legal: Frank Lopez & Rick DuChateau
• Project Manager: Stacey Freeman
• Memorabilia & Records: The Collections of Cheryl Pawelski & Brad Rosenberger

The Band - A Musical History - 2005 - Capitol Records CCAP77409-6