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
