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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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Don’t Do It — Levon Helm Tribute Week

“Baby Don’t You Do It” is a 1964 sin­gle by Amer­i­can singer Mar­vin Gaye, and was writ­ten by Holland–Dozier–Holland. The Band recorded the song numer­ous times under the title “Don’t Do It”; the dif­fer­ent ver­sions, both stu­dio and live, appear on sev­eral of their albums and box sets. “Don’t Do It” was the encore performed …

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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 …

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Bulletproof by La Roux

SONG OF THE DAY “Bul­let­proof” by La Roux (La Roux, Poly­dor, 2009). Writ­ten by Elly Jack­son & Ben Lang­maid. VIDEO OF THE DAY Here’s a link to the video on youtube (embed­ding was disabled).