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Everybody’s Talkin’ by Tedeschi Trucks Band

SONG OF THE DAY “Everybody’s Talkin’ ” by Tedeschi Trucks Band (Everybody’s Talkin’, Sony Legacy, May 22, 2012). Writ­ten by Fred Neil. WHERE I HEARD IT Wood­stock Radio!! INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) Tedeschi Trucks Band will release their first live album, Everybody’s Talkin’, on May 22. The dou­ble CD, which was recorded in Octo­ber dur­ing the band’s Rev­e­la­tor World …

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Ophelia (Live) — Levon Helm Tribute Week

“Ophe­lia”, a Rob­bie Robert­son orig­i­nal, is Ram­ble at the Ryman’s first track. The 2011 live album was recorded by Amer­i­can rock multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm dur­ing his Sep­tem­ber 17, 2008 per­for­mance at Nashville’s Ryman Audi­to­rium. The album fea­tures six songs by The Band and other cover mate­r­ial, includ­ing songs from pre­vi­ous Helm solo releases. Helm’s band …

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A Train Robbery — Levon Helm Tribute Week

“A Train Rob­bery” is track 9 on The Levon Helm Band’s crit­i­cally acclaimed 2007 album, Dirt Farmer. The album was Helm’s first stu­dio album since 1982. The album con­tains cov­ers of songs by Steve Earle and J. B. Lenoir, and fea­tures his daugh­ter Amy, as well as ex-Bob Dylan side­man Larry Camp­bell. It won the …

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The Weight — Levon Helm Tribute Week

“The Weight” was released by The Band as Capi­tol Records sin­gle 2269 in 1968, and appeared one week later on the group’s debut album Music from Big Pink. The song is listed as #41 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Great­est Songs of All Time pub­lished in 2004, and Pitch­fork Media named it the thir­teenth best song …

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Up on Cripple Creek — Levon Helm Tribute Week

Levon Helm sang lead vocals and played drums on this iconic song recorded for 1969’s epony­mous sec­ond album from The Band. A live per­for­mance of “Up on Crip­ple Creek” also appears in The Band’s live con­cert film The Last Waltz and it’s accom­pa­ny­ing sound­track. In addi­tion, a live ver­sion of the song appears on Before …