“Anna Lee” is another great track (track 9, in fact) and performance from Ramble at the Ryman , the 2011 live album recorded by American rock multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm during his September 17, 2008 performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The album won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Americana Album.
“Long Black Veil” is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. The song has become a standard and has been covered by a variety of artists in country, folk and rock styles. In 1968, it appeared on The Band’s debut album, Music from Big Pink. …
“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 …
Another track off that great 1969 album, The Band, and another track with the gritty, powerful lead vocals of the late, great Levon Helm, is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”. According to Rob Bowman’s liner notes to the 2000 reissue of The Band’s second album, The Band, it has been viewed as a …
SONG OF THE DAY “On & On” by Erykah Badu (Live, Kedar/ Universal, 1997). Written by Erykah Badu and Jaborn Jamal. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “In the Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains, Sun Loses and We Sleep Until Noon” by Woodpigeon (Treasury Library Canada c/w Houndstooth Europa, Boompa Records, 2009). VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “Before The Deluge” by Jackson Browne (Late for the Sky, Asylum Records, 1974). Written by Jackson Browne. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harem (Procol Harum, Deram Records, 1967). Written by Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, and Matthew Fisher. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “Katmandu” by Cat Stevens (Mona Bone Jakon, A&M Records/ Island Records, 1970). Written by Cat Stevens. VIDEO OF THE DAY
SONG OF THE DAY “Lost In My Mind” by The Head & The Heart (The Head And The Heart, Sub Pop Records, 2010). Written by Josiah Johnson, Jon Russell, Charity Thielen, Kenny Hensley, Chris Zasche, & Tyler Williams. WHERE I HEARD IT Season 3 of NBC’s Parenthood. VIDEO OF THE DAY