After a brief hiatus, Cover Wars is back. What can I say? I went on vacation for a week to Chicago over New Year's and I left you guys without a playlist of covers of the same song to listen to at work. How you got by, I will never know. If you can remember, our last edition looked at covers of Hey Bulldog and Toad The Wet Sprocket has emerged victorious. Color me surprised, though they did do a great job with the song. This [...]
Over the holidays I read through Levon Helm's autobiography, This Wheel's On Fire, which details The Band's long career from the very beginning, when the drummer hooked up with rockabilly barnstormer Ronnie Hawkins, far passed the bitter end of The Last Waltz. The memoir opens with the heartbreak of finding Richard Manuel dead, the wildness that always shown in his eyes as much as in his
Hey everyone; Today we're gonna talk about one of our favorite albums-The Band's eponymous album (that means self-titled... now you don't have to look it up). The Band was a Canadian/American country roots rock group who formed as the backup band for Bob Dylan's 1965 world tour. You may know them from Tom Hanks' tribute to them from this year's Grammy's, you may know them for their song "The Weight" (the "Take A Load Off Annie" song) from their album "Music from Big Pink." Or you may [...]
This is the final installment of " Waltz Wednesdays ," in which we've featured some of our favorite moments from Martin Scorcese's classic rock n' roll film The Last Waltz . All mp3s featured in "Waltz Wednesdays" are the versions from The Last Waltz. And so we meet at the top of my lil’ list of favorites from The Last Waltz . "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is such an epic song. In fact, Mirriam-Webster should add an MP3 of the song to epic's definition page , autoplay=TRUE. [...]