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Tape Project Albums => Suggestion Box => Topic started by: ironbut on February 11, 2009, 06:45:06 PM
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Oh Boy, I was making a post over on the pre-recorded forum and geeze,.. how could I have never suggested this one? What a classic album this was. Maybe, that's why it went Platinum. But with a song list that includes, Across the Great Divide, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Up on Cripple Creek, along with songs that may not have been as commercially successful but have a special spot in my heart. Man,.. I'd love ta see this one get the royal treatment it deserves!
Every song is a little story with these guys. Just great singer/songwriter stuff. And the music seems to come from a place that we're all familiar with but just can't quite place it. With Robertson hitting that chord that was always meant to be there, and Levon Helm's, or Rick Danko's voices weary from a life of disappointments but still hopeful in a workman like momentum. All against a gray clouded sky as thick as the organ stops on Garth Hudson's B3. There's a whole world inside of this album.
Capital Records
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Steve,
Doing at least one album by The Band is high on my list also.
BTW Garth Hudson was famous for NOT using a B-3, or any Hammond. Felt he got more sounds out of something else...a Conn maybe? Anyone remember what brand he preferred?
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From Wikipedia:
Upon joining The Hawks, Hudson also took the opportunity to negotiate a new Lowrey organ as part of his package. This is significant as he was one of the few organ players within the rock & roll/rhythm & blues community to pointedly eschew the Hammond organ. The Lowrey organ offered a different mix of features and Hudson stayed with Lowrey right through Ronnie Hawkins/The Hawks, Bob Dylan and The Band, playing three different models: originally a Festival (FL) console which was replaced by a Lincolnwood TSO-25 during 1969. Later still, Hudson played a horseshoe console H25 model, as depicted in The Last Waltz.
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Mmm,.. I like those odds!