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The Band: A Melody Maker Band Breakdown
Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, May 1971
FEW ROCK AND ROLL concerts can have been so eagerly awaited as those which The Band are due to play at London's Royal Albert Hall ...
Rock’n’Roll Academy: Revisiting The Band’s Rock of Ages
Review by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, January 2001
Two of my favourite live albums were recorded at either end of 1971. In February Taj Mahal added a horn section of four Tuba players ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 1991
The Hawk recalls rockin' out of Canada with his teenage Hawks - road stories, show business sharks and wild times, taking in Roulette's Morris Levy, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and, of course, ex-Hawks The Band.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 81mb, total interview length: 1h 18' 25" sound quality: ***
AUDIO: Elliott Landy on Photographing The Band (1991)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1991
The great rock photographer remembers his time working with The Band, from Woodstock and Big Pink to Los Angeles and The Band sessions.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 46.7mb, total interview length: 50' 57" sound quality: ****
AUDIO: Bill Graham on The Band (and Dylan) (1991)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1991
Über-promoter Bill Graham talks about his relationship with The Band, from their Winterland debut to The Last Waltz, via Watkins Glen and the 1974 Dylan mega-tour
File format: mp3 File size: 28.3mb Interview length: 30 minutes 56 seconds Sound quality: ****
AUDIO: The Band's Rick Danko (1995)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 1995
A fascinating interview with Rick Danko about living in Woodstock, the Big Pink ("actually magenta") , and working in the Basement with Bob Dylan.
File format: mp3 File size: 28.5mb Interview length: 31 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: ****
AUDIO: The Band's Levon Helm (1998)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 1998
The Band's drummer takes us from West Memphis nightclubs to The Hawks to Dylan to Big Pink to Muddy Waters, and along the way touches on his break with Robbie Robertson and the death of Richard Manuel
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 81.1meg, total interview length: 1h 28' 37" sound quality: **
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Bob Dylan: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, June 1966
With A Mixture Of Folk, Rock And Comedy, Dylan Shows He Can Take Every Insult But Not A Compliment ...
The Band: Friends and Neighbours Just Call Us The Band
Profile and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Rolling Stone, August 1968
NEW YORK: Big Pink is one of those middle class ranch houses of the type that you would expect to find in development row in ...
Profile and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Hullabaloo, October 1968
BIG PINK IS ONE of those middle-class ranch houses of the type that you would expect to find in development row in the heart of ...
Canned Heat: Livin' The Blues (Liberty) The Band: Music From Big Pink (Capitol)
Review by Charlie Gillett, Times Educational Supplement, March 1969
IF YOU'RE A young white man who digs the blues and who likes to make music, what do you do about it? Your decision used ...
The Band Breathes Fresh Country Air Over Fillmore East
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, May 1969
THE BAND, WHICH was first known as Bob Dylan's back-up group, spent Friday and Saturday coolly circulating mountain air through the Fillmore East, 105 Second ...
The Band: We Can Talk About It Now
Live Review by Greil Marcus, Good Times, August 1969
THE BAND has been together the best part of a decade, almost nine years. Little Richard has been Little Richard for about double that, but ...
Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Guardian, The, September 1969
The gospel according to Dylan ...
Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Miles, International Times, September 1969
VISITORS to the 2nd Isle of Wight Music Festival at Godshill near Ryde more than doubled the population of the Island, outnumbered the 130 local ...
The Band: Felt Forum, New York NY; The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, December 1969
'The Band' Rocks With Hillbilly Ease ...
The Band: Stage Fright (Capitol)
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, October 1970
WHEN YOU hear the term country/rock, you immediately think of Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko and Levon Helm, collectively The Band. For ...
Live Review by Nick Tosches, New Haven Rock Press, Fall 1970
ON THE night of June 29, The Band played to the biggest crowd in the four-year history of the now-traditional Central Park Summer Beer Festival ...
The Band – Or When The Booing Ended
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, May 1971
NOBODY SEEMS to know much about the Band. That they're a living legend is a fact, a household name, true, but few people could enlighten ...
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan and the Hawks Live At Albert Hall, 1966
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, June 1971
IT IS THE MOST supremely elegant piece of rock'n'roll music I've ever heard. ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, June 1971
NO DIFFICULTY KNOWING when you've just finished hearing a great rock concert. Because you'll be in the middle of a great crowd of people standing ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, July 1971
The Band have probably become the most highly respected group among groups since their first album was released three years ago. ...
The Band Comes Back to California
Live Review by uncredited writer, Los Angeles Times, November 1971
SAN FRANCISCO -- It was exactly 9:30 p.m. Saturday when Bill Graham, far more relaxed than in his intense Fillmore days, walked on stage at ...
'There's Still Togetherness': The Band
Report and Interview by Nick Logan, Hit Parader, December 1971
The Band – now down to playing 10 to 15 gigs a year over four or five weekends...a couple of tours a year the rest ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, December 1971
WELL, IT'S DIFFERENT. ...
A Hawk In Gotham: Ronnie Hawkins
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, New York Times, September 1972
THE HAWK blew into town recently, spewing one-liners and hoping that his big mouth would bring him fame instead of trouble this time. ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, November 1972
On a great night, the Band grab and mesmerize, so that neither your eyes nor your thoughts can be on anything else. It helps that ...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, November 1973
EVEN THOUGH everyone involved is tremendously excited about the Band/Dylan tour (reported on page one), 1973 still has some time left and The Band have ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, January 1974
UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES this would be a fairly disappointing album for the Band, coming as it does on the year-old heels of a live set ...
Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, January 1974
WHATEVER REASON you might tender to explain the artistic atrophy that has overtaken Dylan, it's beginning to seem as though his old cronies, The Band, ...
Bob Dylan & The Band: Night of the Zimmerman
Report by Barbara Charone, NME, January 1974
CHICAGO, ILLINIOS – land of Lincoln, booming metropolis of the Mid-West, heart of Middle America. Not as sophisticated as New York, nor as small as ...
Bob Dylan & The Band: Knocking On Heaven's Door
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, February 1974
THEY CHEERED and clapped and waved for fifteen minutes even though the house lights were up and 'Greensleeves' was playing through the PA system and ...
Profile by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, April 1974
THE LEGEND runs that in the summer of 1965 the Hawks (also known as the Crackers) were playing a night club in the seashore resort ...
Dylan and The Band Return with Planet Waves
Report by John Swenson, Circus, April 1974
When Dylan took the lid off the box he was hiding in, he made the conditions for peeping in very difficult. Now Bob Dylan doesn't ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, June 1974
AN APPOSITE QUOTE from Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (the town preacher talking): "Oh Lord, can we truly accomplish this great task – or are we ...
Eric Clapton: A Hero Comes To Town
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, July 1974
PITTSBURGH, PA. – The tint on the TV screen gave the newscaster a peculiarly reddish face, almost as if he was genuinely quite excited about ...
Bob Dylan/The Band: Before The Flood (Asylum)
Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, August 1974
THROUGHOUT BOB DYLAN'S performances on this in-concert album there is evident an effort to match the material – nearly all from much earlier in his ...
Bob Dylan and the Band: The Basement Tapes
Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, September 1975
On Blonde on Blonde, Dylan gave us his metaphysical, amphetamine dreams from some smoke-filled apartment in midtown Manhattan. On John Wesley Harding, he synthesized a ...
Bob Dylan & The Band: The Basement Tapes
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, September 1975
WHAT WE HAVE here is the most enjoyable Dylan album yet released. ...
The Band: Northern Lights — Southern Cross
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, December 1975
I'M UP AGAINST a deadline on this one, having to hurry – which is bad enough without having to respond fairly to a group operating ...
The Band: Northern Lights, Southern Cross (Capitol)
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, December 1975
THE BAND don't rush things – this is their first album of original material in four years – and to review this after having listened ...
The Band's Robbie Robertson: 'The Struggle Has Gone'
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, January 1976
ROBBIE ROBERTSON: "We'd been around so long that we couldn't take a name seriously. So we made the first album and we called ourselves the ...
Across The Great Divide with Robbie Robertson
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Crawdaddy!, March 1976
A Portrait of the Artist as a Mystery Man ...
The Band: Northern Lights - Southern Cross
Review by Greil Marcus, Creem, March 1976
A RECENT nation-wide telephone poll on Northern Lights-Southern Cross, the Band's first collection of new songs in four years, has produced a solid consensus. All ...
...Mounties, Maple Syrup: The Band at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, September 1976
RUMOURS HAD BEEN circulating (the way rumours always do) for some months. They claimed that there was some kind of rift between The Band and ...
The Band: The Best Of The Band
Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, September 1976
ANYTHING THAT allows The Band to maintain their self-imposed torpor should be actively discouraged, and it is with this sentiment in mind that I proposed ...
Rick Danko: Solo, But Not Alone
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, October 1976
WITH THE possible exception of Robbie Robertson, the individual members of the Band have enjoyed a remarkable anonymity that belies their status as one of ...
And The Band Played On... The Band's Last Waltz
Live Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, November 1976
IT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY the single biggest collection of rock stars ever to perform on one stage: 17 musicians played Bob Dylan's ‘I Shall Be Released’, ...
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, December 1976
IT WASN'T easy to book a plane from Los Angeles airport on Thanksgiving to fly up to San Francisco for the Band's farewell live concert ...
Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, March 1977
IT IS no accident that The Band have been the most bearded outfit in the rock business. They entered the public arena, when at all, ...
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, April 1977
WHEN Isaac Hayes was at the peak of his success, some five or six years ago, he told me of his great ambition to write ...
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, May 1977
EVER SINCE I first heard the magnificent 'Acadian Driftwood' and marvelled in particular at Garth Hudson's tasteful use of synthesiser, it has always been a ...
The Band’s All-Star Farewell Banquet
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Waxpaper, 1978
"FOR THE FILM, first of all, you have to do a thing which is called pre-dubbing, which is where you take your 24 tracks and ...
The Weight: The Band's Anthology
Review by Dave Marsh, Boston Phoenix, 1978
IT'S NOT HARD to understand the release of Anthology, the second repackaging of Band material in two years. The group made only eight albums (one ...
The Band: The Last Waltz (Warner Brothers)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, April 1978
The second feeding of the 5000... And lo, the leftovers filled six sides of vinyl. And the people marveled. ...
Ten Years of Stage Fright: The Life And Times Of Robbie Robertson & The Band
Retrospective and Interview by Mick Farren, NME, June 1978
ALTHOUGH AT the time individuals may tell you different, it's no big deal for a band to break up. It happens almost every week and, ...
The Last Waltz: Time Gentlemen Please
Film/DVD Review by Paul Rambali, NME, August 1978
The Last Waltz (United Artists)Directed by Martin ScorseseStarring The Band, Bob Dylan etc. etc. ...
Robbie Robertson: Between Trains
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, May 1983
QUALITY IS something that Robbie Robertson definitely understands. ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, April 1987
Fireworks were going off in the Sixties. Music was happening quicker than people could deal with. ...
Essay by Jeff Tamarkin, Goldmine, July 1991
THE QUINTET KNOWN as the Band never did get back together in that same, familiar aggregation. To this day, however, there is a band called ...
Robbing America for a storyline thread
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Times, The, October 1991
ROBBIE ROBERTSON should be used to jetlag. He spent 16 years on the road as a member of The Band and knows only too well ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1994
MENTION THE BAND TO PEOPLE IN 1993 and the chances are they'll say: "What band?" So much for the enduring legacy of the finest group ...
The Story of Bobby Charles and Bearsville
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Escott, Stony Plain Records, September 1994
BOBBY CHARLES IS one of the great Louisiana records, and there have been a few. It doesn't matter that it was recorded in upstate New ...
Robbie Robertson: The Q 100 Interview
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, January 1995
How the devil are you? ...
The Band: Live at Watkins Glen
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, June 1995
"They got their own thing together that takes you to a certain place. Takes you where they want to go... they play their things on ...
Review by Geoffrey Himes, New Country, June 1996
WHEN ROBBIE ROBERTSON and the rest of the Band split into two camps in the late '70s, who ever thought Robertson would get the worst ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1998
LEVON HELM is perched on the arm of a carved wooden chair in his large house-cum-recording studio in Woodstock, N.Y., and he’s cackling his head ...
Robbie Robertson: The Underworld of Redboy
Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, August 1998
TWENTY YEARS ago, a Martin Scorsese film called The Last Waltz was released in theaters. As rock fans easily recall, this star-studded musical event – ...
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Rock 100, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999
THE BAND was once described as the only group who could warm up the crowd for Abraham Lincoln. When they first appeared late in 1968, ...
The Band's Rick Danko Dies At 56
Obituary by Frank Tortorici, sonicnet.com, December 1999
RICK DANKO, whose high voice marked such roots-rock classics by The Band as 'The Weight' and 'Stage Fright', was found dead Friday morning (Dec. 10) ...
Dylan and The Band: Obviously Five Believers
Retrospective and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, October 2000
He took them round the world – to endless booing. They settled in Woodstock, separated, and then reunited for the highest grossing tour of the ...
Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Capitol Records, October 2000
IT ALL BEGAN with a house. An unremarkable ranch house sitting at the end of a long dirt driveway in the shadow of a mountain ...
Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Capitol Records, October 2000
'TWAS IN the early summer of 1968 that legendary rock promoter Bill Graham drove up to the Catskill mountains to propose that The Band make ...
Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Capitol Records, October 2000
THE BAND had good reason to call their third album Stage Fright. On the eve of their live debut at Bill Graham’s Winterland theater in ...
Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Capitol Records, October 2000
IRONICALLY, after the release of Stage Fright in September 1970, The Band spent the ensuing three months touring America. "We had it set up pretty ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, November 2000
Nestling beneath the forest-clad slopes of Overlook Mountain, a couple of hours drive north of New York City, the town of Woodstock has a sort ...
Band on the Rerun: Rowdy, haunting and resonant, The Band is the voice of a vanished America
Retrospective by Richard Gehr, My Generation, February 2001
A GORGEOUS MELANCHOLY lies at the core of the music created by The Band, four Canadian rockers and an Arkansas drummer who, some argue, brought ...
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, September 2001
IN TERMS OF scale and impact, rock music was born during Dylan's 1965-6 world tour with a group called The Hawks. Dylan's rig was by ...
The Night They Put The Band To Rest: The Last Waltz Revisited
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, April 2002
"THE LAST WALTZ" was The Band's star-studded swansong, staged on Thanksgiving Day, 1976. Martin Scorsese made a timeless rockumentary about it, inspiring a hundred alt.roots-rockers ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, May 2002
SIXTEEN YEARS, man.....Five years backing the Hawk; two more backing Bob Dylan, for Chrissakes. And then almost a decade on their own, a Band with ...
Million Dollar Bash: Dylan and The Band
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Fall 2003
A LOT OF MUSICIANS have played with Bob Dylan over the last forty-odd years, but none of them has quite had the special relationship with ...
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie: Festival Express 1970
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2004
IT WAS THE Lollapalooza of its day – a week-long, three-date circus of a rock and roll tour featuring The Band, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, ...
The Backpages Interview: Robbie Robertson
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, October 2005
RBP: A Musical History seems like a formidable undertaking. ...
Garth and Maud Hudson playing 'Blind Willie McTell': 100 Club, London, September 26
Live Review by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, October 2007
SO THE CROWD parts to let Garth Hudson wheel his wife Maud to the stage, and Maud's dressed for a Woodstock winter, hat, scarves and ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2007
LEVON HELM was the southern heart of that essentially Canadian group The Band, the drummer/singer/mandolinist who gave Robbie Robertson's songs their corn-starch authenticity. Helm it ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2009
IF LEVON HELM'S studios have a Green Room, then this must be it. A ramshackle den leading off a homely wooden kitchen, it's currently crawling ...
Oh Brother Where Art Thou? The Night They Drove Ole Levon Down
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 2012
IN THE BACKWOODS gang that was The Band, Levon Helm was the lean and wiry chancer with one eye on the ladies and a voice ...
Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 2012
"THE FIRST TIME I saw Levon in action was in Woodstock, Ontario, about thirty-five miles from London, where I grew up. Ronnie and the Hawks ...
see also Rick Danko
see also Bob Dylan
see also Ronnie Hawkins
see also Levon Helm
see also Garth Hudson
see also Robbie Robertson
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