A Musical History is the second box set to anthologize Canadian-American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 rock group The Band

The Band

The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...

. Released by Capitol Records

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

 on September 27, 2005 it features 111 tracks spread over five Compact Disc

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

s and one DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

. Roughly spanning the group's journey from 1961 to 1977, from their days behind Ronnie Hawkins

Ronnie Hawkins

Ronald "Ronnie" Hawkins is a Juno Award-winning rockabilly musician whose career has spanned more than half a century. Though his career began in Arkansas, USA, where he'd been born and raised, it was in Ontario, Canada where he found success and settled for most of his life...

 and Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 through the departure of Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...

 and the first disbanding of the group. The set includes highlights from each of the group's first seven studio albums and both major live recordings and nearly forty rare or previously-unreleased performances.

Disc one

The first disc focuses on the period from 1961 through 1968, giving the first legitimate release on compact disc to four of five single sides the group recorded in 1965, the fifth previously released on 1994's Across The Great Divide

Across The Great Divide

Across The Great Divide is a box set from Canadian-American rock group The Band released in 1994.The three-disc set, consists of two discs of songs from all of The Band's albums through 1989's To Kingdom Come...

. Opening with two tracks featuring an early incarnation of the group featuring Danko, Robertson and Helm (with Manuel on one track) backing Ronnie Hawkins, the disc goes into the first recordings of the group without Hawkins, with Helm assuming lead vocal duties. From there come the earliest tracks featuring the classic line-up, mostly 12-bar blues material, including the group's single sides, the earlier sides recorded as The Canadian Squires, the later sides as Levon and the Hawks. Sessions with Bob Dylan (mostly without Helm) and demo recordings close the disc. These recordings constitute one part of a larger set that will be released as From Bacon Fat to Judgement Day, chronicling the group's journey from 1957 to 1967.

Disc two

Disc two focuses on 1968, featuring all but one track either in its original or in an alternate or extended version from the group's debut album

Music from Big Pink

Music from Big Pink is the 1968 debut album by rock band The Band. It features the well-known song, "The Weight". The music was composed partly in 'Big Pink', a house shared by Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson in West Saugerties, in upstate New York...

, as well as several outtakes, a few of which are new to the set. A number with Dylan recorded at a Woody Guthrie tribute concert (where the group performed as "The Crackers") and a few of the group's tracks from The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes is a 1975 studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band. The songs featuring Dylan's vocals were recorded in 1967, eight years before the album's release, at houses in and around Woodstock, New York, where Dylan and the Band lived...

round out the disc.

Disc three

The third CD focuses on 1969 to 1971. Eight of twelve tracks from the group's eponymous second album

The Band (album)

- Bonus Track listing from 2000 re-release :All songs by Robbie Robertson unless otherwise noted. The 2000 re-release has also been packaged as a double CD with The Band's debut album Music from Big Pink.- Personnel :...

 and an early version of a ninth constitute the first part of the disc, with five of ten (with an early version of a sixth) from the third album

Stage Fright (album)

Stage Fright is the third album by Canadian-American group The Band released in 1970. Much more of a rock album than its predecessors, it was a departure from their previous two efforts in that its tone was darker and featured less of the harmony vocal blend that had been a centerpiece of those two...

, a handful of live numbers and a run-through of one track that would appear on the group's fourth album finish the disc.

Disc four

Disc four focuses on 1971 to 1973, opening with an additional four tracks from the group's fourth album. From there, nine tracks recorded during the shows that made up the group's fifth album, the live Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages (album)

-Side two:-Side three:-Side four:-2001 bonus disc track listing:-Personnel:* Rick Danko - vocal, bass, violin* Levon Helm - vocal, drums, mandolin* Garth Hudson - organ, piano, accordion, tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone solos...

, one of them previously unreleased. The disc closes with three tracks from various sessions in 1972 and 1973, two previously unreleased, and one track from the group's homage to early rock and roll, Moondog Matinee

Moondog Matinee

Moondog Matinee is the sixth album by Canadian/American rock group The Band released in 1973. It consists entirely of cover material taken from the group's love of R&B and blues music with one exception in their interpretation of the theme from the film The Third Man.The idea had been to replicate...

.

Disc five

The final audio disc focuses on 1973 to 1976, opening with a further three tracks and an outtake from Moondog Matinee. Three further tracks with Dylan follow, two of which were previously released on Planet Waves

Planet Waves

Planet Waves is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 14th studio album, released by Asylum Records in January 1974....

and Before the Flood

Before the Flood

Side threeSide four-Personnel:* Bob Dylan – vocal, guitars, harmonica, piano* Robbie Robertson – electric guitar, backing vocal* Richard Manuel – vocal, piano, electric piano, organ, drums* Garth Hudson – Lowrey organ, clavinet, piano, synthesizer, saxophone...

. Three of eight tracks from the group's seventh album make up the middle of the disc. The group's last studio sessions, some of which was released on their final album for Capitol

Islands (The Band album)

- Bonus tracks from 2001 CD re-release:All songs written by Robbie Robertson except where indicated.-Personnel:The Band*Rick Danko – bass guitar, vocals*Levon Helm – drums, vocals...

, as well as one previously unreleased live track follow. The disc closes with a handful of tracks from the live/studio hybrid The Last Waltz, recorded in 1976 and 1977 and released in 1978.

DVD

The sixth disc, a DVD, features various performances between 1970 and 1976. Among these are three of four performances the group did on their 1976 appearance on Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

, two performances from Wembley Stadium

Wembley Stadium

The original Wembley Stadium, officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007...

, one performance from the sessions that produced their Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages (album)

-Side two:-Side three:-Side four:-2001 bonus disc track listing:-Personnel:* Rick Danko - vocal, bass, violin* Levon Helm - vocal, drums, mandolin* Garth Hudson - organ, piano, accordion, tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone solos...

album, two from the 1970 Festival Express tour and one from a rarely-seen promotional video. All tracks are either previously unreleased in full or in total.

As could be expected, the box set draws heavily on what is considered the group's best work- their first three studio albums, including versions of thirty-one out of thirty-three tracks that appeared on them. The remaining studio albums, while infinitely better represented than on Across The Great Divide, are still only represented by forty-six percent of the material.

Disc one

1. "Who Do You Love" (E. McDaniel
   Bo Diddley
   Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
   
   ,  – 2:40) – Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
2. "You Know I Love You" (J. Reed,  – 2:44) – Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
3. "Further On Up The Road" (D. Robey-J. Veasey,  – 3:06) – The Hawks
4. "Nineteen Years Old" (M. Morganfield
   Muddy Waters
   McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
   
   ,  – 4:12) – The Hawks
5. "Honky Tonk" (D. Robey,  – 3:02) – Levon & The Hawks
6. "Bacon Fat" (G. Hudson-R. Robertson,  – 2:38) – Levon & The Hawks
7. "Robbie's Blues" (The Hawks,  – 3:37) – Levon & The Hawks
8. "Leave Me Alone" (R. Robertson,  – 2:37) – Levon & The Hawks (as The Canadian Squires)
9. "Uh Uh Uh" (R. Robertson,  – 2:21) – Levon & The Hawks (as The Canadian Squires)
10. "He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart)" (R. Robertson,  – 2:37) – Levon & The Hawks
11. "(I Want To Be) The Rainmaker" (sketch track) (R. Robertson,  – 2:59) – Levon & The Hawks
12. "The Stones I Throw" (sketch track) (R. Robertson,  – 1:07) – Levon & The Hawks
13. "The Stones I Throw (Will Free All Men)" (R. Robertson,  – 2:06) – Levon & The Hawks
14. "Go Go, Liza Jane" (Traditional, arr. R. Robertson,  – 2:11) – Levon & The Hawks
15. "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
    Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
    "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" was a 1965 single by American rock artist Bob Dylan. It reached #58 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and #17 on the UK chart in January 1966...
    
    " (B. Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    ,  – 3:32) – Bob Dylan with Levon & The Hawks
16. "Tell Me, Momma" (live) (B. Dylan,  – 4:05) – Bob Dylan & The Hawks
17. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
    Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
    "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan. It was originally recorded on August 2, 1965 and released on the album Highway 61 Revisited. The song was later released on the compilation album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol...
    
    " (live) (B. Dylan,  – 5:36) – Bob Dylan & The Hawks
18. "Words And Numbers" (sketch track) (R. Manuel,  – 4:09)
19. "You Don't Come Through" (sketch track) (R. Robertson,  – 2:03)
20. "Beautiful Thing" (sketch track) (R. Manuel,  – 1:41)
21. "Caledonia Mission" (sketch track) (R. Robertson,  – 2:29)
22. "Odds And Ends" (B. Dylan,  – 1:46) – Bob Dylan & The Hawks
23. "Ferdinand The Impostor" (R. Robertson,  – 4:06)
24. "Ruben Remus" (R. Manuel-R. Robertson,  – 3:13)
25. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken
    Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a 1972 album officially by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, but with collaboration from many famous Bluegrass and country-western players, including Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Bashful Brother Oswald, Norman Blake, Jimmy...
    
    " (Traditional, arr. The Band,  – 0:55)
    • Tracks 1-5 and 8-9 produced by Henry Glover; Tracks 6-7 produced by Duff Roman; Tracks 10, 13 & 14 supervised by Eddie Heller for TRO Productions; Track 15 produced by Bob Johnston
      Bob Johnston
      Donald William Robert 'Bob' Johnston is a noted American record producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson and many Nashville recording artists, as well as Simon and Garfunkel.-Early days:Johnston was born into a professional musical family...
      
      ; Tracks 18-25 recorded by Garth Hudson. Production credits for other tracks unknown.

Disc two

1. "Katie's Been Gone" (R. Manuel-R. Robertson,  – 2:45)
2. "Ain't No More Cane" (Traditional by Christian Rowe, arr. The Band,  – 3:58)
3. "Don't Ya Tell Henry" (B. Dylan,  – 3:13)
4. "Tears of Rage
   Tears of Rage
   "Tears of Rage" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel, the former writing the lyrics and the melody being provided by the latter.-Initial recordings:...
   
   " (B. Dylan-R. Manuel,  – 5:21)
5. "To Kingdom Come" (extended version) (R. Robertson,  – 3:57)
6. "In A Station" (R. Manuel,  – 3:31)
7. "The Weight
   The Weight
   "The Weight" is a song written by Robbie Robertson. It 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 Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004, and...
   
   " (R. Robertson,  – 4:36)
8. "We Can Talk" (R. Manuel,  – 3:03)
9. "Long Black Veil" (D. Dill-M. J. Wilkin,  – 3:03)
10. "Chest Fever" (R. Robertson,  – 5:15)
11. "Lonesome Suzie" (alternate version) (R. Manuel,  – 2:57)
12. "This Wheel's On Fire" (R. Danko-B. Dylan,  – 3:11)
13. "I Shall Be Released
    I Shall Be Released
    "I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan.The Band played it on their debut album, Music from Big Pink , with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing in the chorus...
    
    " (B. Dylan,  – 3:12)
14. "Yazoo Street Scandal" (R. Robertson,  – 3:54)
15. "I Ain't Got No Home" (live) (W. Guthrie,  – 3:44) – Bob Dylan & The Band
16. "Orange Juice Blues" (R. Manuel,  – 3:18)
17. "Baby Lou" (J. Drew,  – 3:38)
18. "Long Distance Operator" (full version) (B. Dylan,  – 4:32)
19. "Key To The Highway
    Key to the Highway
    "Key to the Highway" is a blues standard first recorded by blues pianist Charlie Segar in 1940. The song was also recorded by Jazz Gillum and Big Bill Broonzy in 1940–41, and it was later a R&B record chart success for Little Walter in 1958...
    
    " (W. Broonzy-C. Segar,  – 2:22)
20. "Bessie Smith" (R. Danko-R. Robertson,  – 4:17)
    • All tracks produced by John Simon
      John Simon (record producer)
      John Simon is an American musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band.-Biography:...
      
      , except 15, for which production credits are unknown.

Disc three

1. "Across The Great Divide" (R. Robertson,  – 2:53)
2. "Rag Mama Rag" (R. Robertson,  – 3:05)
3. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
   The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
   "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by Canadian musician Robbie Robertson, first recorded by The Band in 1969 and released on their self-titled second album. Joan Baez' cover of the song was a top-five chart hit in late 1971....
   
   " (R. Robertson,  – 3:33)
4. "When You Awake" (R. Manuel-R. Robertson,  – 3:15)
5. "Up On Cripple Creek
   Up on Cripple Creek
   "Up on Cripple Creek" is the fifth song on The Band's eponymous second album, The Band. It was released as a single in November 1969 and reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100...
   
   " (R. Robertson,  – 4:34)
6. "Whispering Pines" (R. Manuel-R. Robertson,  – 3:57)
7. "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" (R. Robertson,  – 3:37)
8. "Get Up Jake" (R. Robertson,  – 2:16)
9. "Jemima Surrender" (early version) (L. Helm-R. Robertson,  – 3:47)
10. "Daniel & The Sacred Harp" (alternate take) (R. Robertson,  – 4:21)
11. "Time To Kill" (R. Robertson,  – 3:26)
12. "All La Glory" (early version) (R. Robertson,  – 3:24)
13. "The Shape I'm In" (R. Robertson,  – 4:02)
14. "Stage Fright" (R. Robertson,  – 3:43)
15. "The Rumor" (R. Robertson,  – 4:14)
16. "Slippin' & Slidin'" (live) (E. Bocage-A. Collins-R. Penniman-J. Smith,  – 3:21)
17. "Don't Do It" (E. Holland-L. Dozier-B. Holland,  – 3:46)
18. "Strawberry Wine" (live) (L. Helm-R. Robertson,  – 3:46)
19. "Rockin' Chair" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 4:12)
20. "Look Out Cleveland" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 3:33)
21. "4% Pantomime" (early version) (V. Morrison-R. Robertson,  – 6:01) – The Band with Van Morrison
    • Tracks 1-9 produced by John Simon and Tracks 10-15, 17 and 21 produced by The Band. Production credits for other tracks not known.

Disc four

1. "Life Is A Carnival" (R. Danko-L. Helm-R. Robertson,  – 3:55)
2. "When I Paint My Masterpiece
   When I Paint My Masterpiece
   "When I Paint My Masterpiece" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first featured on the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II compilation in 1971. The song is segued back-to-back with "Tomorrow is a Long Time" . Even though there is applause at the beginning of the song, it is in fact a studio recording...
   
   " (B. Dylan,  – 4:21)
3. "The Moon Struck One" (R. Robertson,  – 4:09)
4. "The River Hymn" (R. Robertson,  – 4:39)
5. "Don't Do It" (live) (E. Holland-L. Dozier-B. Holland,  – 4:36)
6. "Caledonia Mission" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 3:22)
7. "Smoke Signal" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 5:09)
8. "The Unfaithful Servant" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 4:41)
9. "The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 4:05)
10. "The Genetic Method" (live) (G. Hudson,  – 7:31)
11. "Chest Fever
    Chest Fever
    "Chest Fever" is a song recorded by The Band on its 1968 debut, Music from Big Pink. It is, according to Peter Viney, a historian of the group, “the Big Pink track that has appeared on most subsequent live albums and compilations,” second only to The Weight.The music for the piece was written by...
    
    " (live) (R. Robertson,  – 5:04)
12. "(I Don't Want To Hang Up My) Rock 'N' Roll Shoes" (live) (C. Willis,  – 4:30)
13. "Loving You (Is Sweeter Than Ever)" (live) (I. Hunter-S. Wonder,  – 3:35)
14. "Endless Highway" (R. Robertson,  – 5:07)
15. "Move Me" (sketch track) (R. Danko,  – 2:57)
16. "Two Piano Song" (R. Robertson,  – 4:12)
17. "Mystery Train
    Mystery Train
    "Mystery Train" is a song written by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips. It was first recorded in Phillip's Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee in 1953. Raymond Hill plays tenor sax and Matt Murphy plays lead guitar with Bill Johnson on piano, Pat Hare on...
    
    " (H. Parker, Jr.-S. Phillips, additional lyrics by R. Robertson,  – 5:33)
    • All tracks produced by The Band

Disc five

1. "Ain't Got No Home" (C. Henry,  – 3:24)
2. "Share Your Love" (A. Briggs-D. Malone,  – 2:54)
3. "Didn't It Rain" (Traditional, arr. The Band,  – 3:18)
4. "Forever Young
   Forever Young (Bob Dylan song)
   "Forever Young" is a song by Bob Dylan. The song first appeared on Dylan's 1974 album Planet Waves.- Analysis :In the notes for the 2007 album titled DYLAN, Bill Flanagan had the following to say about "Forever Young":...
   
   " (B. Dylan,  – 4:56) – Bob Dylan & The Band
5. "Rainy Day Women#12 & 35" (live) (B. Dylan,  – 3:37) – Bob Dylan & The Band
6. "Highway 61 Revisited
   Highway 61 Revisited
   Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released in August 1965 by Columbia Records. On his previous album, Bringing It All Back Home, Dylan devoted Side One of the album to songs accompanied by an electric rock band, and Side Two to solo acoustic numbers...
   
   " (live) (B. Dylan,  – 3:55) – Bob Dylan & The Band
7. "Ophelia" (R. Robertson,  – 3:31)
8. "Acadian Driftwood" (R. Robertson,  – 6:41)
9. "It Makes No Difference" (R. Robertson,  – 6:32)
10. "Twilight" (sketch track) (R. Robertson,  – 3:25)
11. "Christmas Must Be Tonight" (R. Robertson,  – 3:36)
12. "The Saga Of Pepote Rouge" (R. Robertson,  – 4:13)
13. "Livin' In A Dream" (R. Robertson,  – 2:51)
14. "Forbidden Fruit" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 5:39)
15. "Home Cookin'" (R. Danko,  – 3:44)
16. "Out Of The Blue" (R. Robertson,  – 3:20)
17. "Evangeline" (R. Robertson,  – 3:10) – The Band with Emmylou Harris
18. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (live) (R. Robertson,  – 4:32)
19. "The Weight" (R. Robertson,  – 4:36) – The Band with The Staples
    • Tracks 1-3, 7-9 and 11-15 produced by The Band, Track 4 produced by Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson and Rob Fraboni, Tracks 16-19 produced by Robbie Robertson. Production credits unknown for remaining tracks.

Disc Six: DVD

1. "Jam/King Harvest" (The Band/R. Robertson,  – 4:22) (early 1970; Robbie's Studio, Woodstock, NY)
2. "Long Black Veil" (D. Dill-M. Wilkin,  – 2:46) (7/5/70; Festival Express
   Festival Express
   Festival Express is a 2003 documentary film about the eponymous 1970 train tour across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends...
   
   , Calgary, Canada)
3. "Rockin' Chair" (R. Robertson,  – 3:52) (7/5/70; Festival Express, Calgary, Canada)
4. "Don't Do It" (E. Holland-L. Dozier-B. Holland,  – 4:33) (12/28-31/71; Academy Of Music, New York City)
5. "Hard Times" (The Slop)/Just Another Whistle Stop (N. Watts/R. Manuel-R. Robertson,  – 7:20) (9/14/74; Wembley Stadium, London)
6. "Genetic Method"/"Chest Fever" (G. Hudson/R. Robertson,  – 7:49) (9/14/74; Wembley Stadium, London)
7. "Life Is A Carnival" (R. Danko-L. Helm-R. Robertson,  – 3:14) (10/30/76; Saturday Night Live
   Saturday Night Live
   Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
   
   , New York City)
8. "Stage Fright" (R. Robertson,  – 3:32) (10/30/76; Saturday Night Live, New York City)
9. "Georgia On My Mind
   Georgia on My Mind
   "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or...
   
   " (H. Carmichael-S. Gorrell,  – 3:10) (10/30/76; Saturday Night Live, New York City)

The Band

• Rick Danko
  Rick Danko
  Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band.-Early years :...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , celli
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  , trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  , fiddle
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Levon Helm
  Levon Helm
  Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm , is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequent lead and backing vocalist for The Band....
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , bass, harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , vocals
• Garth Hudson
  Garth Hudson
  Eric Garth Hudson is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. As the organist, keyboardist and saxophonist for Canadian-American rock group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound...
  
   – organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , clavinet
  Clavinet
  A Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...
  
  , accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  s, saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  s, horns
• Richard Manuel
  Richard Manuel
  Richard George Manuel was a Canadian composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his contributions to and membership in The Band....
  
   – piano, drums, organ, clavinet, pianet
  Pianet
  thumb|Hohner Pianet TThe Pianet was a series of electric pianos built by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany from the 1960s to the 1970s. The designer of the early Pianet models was Ernst Zacharias, basing the mechanism closely on a 1920s design by Lloyd Loar...
  
  , harmonica, percussion, vocals
• Robbie Robertson
  Robbie Robertson
  Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...
  
   – guitars, harmonica, piano, vocals

Other participants

• Byron Berline
  Byron Berline
  Byron Berline is an American fiddle player.-Biography:Berline started playing the fiddle at age five and quickly developed a talent for it. In 1965, he recorded the album Pickin' and Fiddlin with the Dillards...
  
   – fiddle (Disc Five, track 8)
• Roy Buchanan
  Roy Buchanan
  Roy Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career, and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still...
  
   – guitar, bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (Disc One, tracks 1 & 4)
• Rich Cooper – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  , flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
   (Disc Five, track 18)
• Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
   – vocals, guitars, harmonica (Disc One, tracks 15-17 & 22; Disc Two, track 15; Disc Five, tracks 5 & 6)
• Joe Farrell – saxophones, English horn (Disc Three, tracks 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 & 12)
• Jim Gordon – saxophone, flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
   (Disc Five, track 18)
• Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
  
   – guitar, vocals (Disc Five, track 17)
• Ronnie Hawkins
  Ronnie Hawkins
  Ronald "Ronnie" Hawkins is a Juno Award-winning rockabilly musician whose career has spanned more than half a century. Though his career began in Arkansas, USA, where he'd been born and raised, it was in Ontario, Canada where he found success and settled for most of his life...
  
   – vocals (Disc One, tracks 1 & 2)
• Jerry Hay – trumpet, flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
   (Disc Five, track 18)
• Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (jazz musician)
  Howard Lewis Johnson in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American jazz musician known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also plays the bass clarinet, trumpet and other reed instruments....
  
   – saxophones, tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  , euphonium
  Euphonium
  The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. It derives its name from the Greek word euphonos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced"...
  
  , flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
  , bass clarinet
  Bass clarinet
  The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
  
  , horn arrangements (Disc Three, tracks 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 & 12; Disc Five, tracks 14 & 18)
• Mickey Jones
  Mickey Jones
  Mickey Jones is an American musician and actor.-Early life:Jones was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Frances Marie and Fred Edward Jones...
  
   – drums (Disc One, tracks 16 & 17)
• Charlie Keagle – saxophones, flute, clarinet (Disc Five, track 18)
• Tom Malone
  Tom Malone (musician)
  Tom "Bones" Malone is an American jazz musician. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone, but also plays trumpet, tuba, tenor sax, baritone sax, flutes, piccolo, and other instruments....
  
   – trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  , bass trombone, euphonium
  Euphonium
  The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. It derives its name from the Greek word euphonos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced"...
  
  , alto flute
  Alto flute
  The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is the next extension downward of the C flute after the flûte d'amour. It is characterized by its distinct, mellow tone in the lower portion of its range...
  
   (Disc Five, track 18)
• Earl McIntyre – trombone (Disc Three, tracks 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 & 12)
• Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
  
   – vocals (Disc Three, track 21)
• Billy Mundi – drums (Disc Four, track 17; Disc Five, track 1)
• Larry Packer – electric violin
  Electric violin
  An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body...
  
   (Disc Five, track 18)
• J. D. Parron – saxophone, E-flat clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
   (Disc Three, tracks 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 & 12)
• Jerry Penfound – saxophones, flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
   (Disc One, tracks 2, 3, 6 & 7)
• John Simon
  John Simon (record producer)
  John Simon is an American musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band.-Biography:...
  
   – baritone horn
  Baritone horn
  The baritone horn is a member of the brass instrument family. The baritone horn has a predominantly cylindrical bore as do the trumpet and trombone. A baritone horn uses a large mouthpiece much like those of a trombone or euphonium, although it is a bit smaller. Some baritone mouthpieces will sink...
  
  , tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  , "peck horn", piano, percussion (Disc Two, tracks 4, 9-11, 18 & 19; Disc Three, tracks 1, 2 & 7)
• Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...
  
   – vocals (Disc Five, track 19)
• Roebuck "Pops" Staples – guitar, vocals (Disc Five, track 19)
• Allen Toussaint
  Allen Toussaint
  Allen Toussaint is an American musician, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet ", "Southern...
  
   – horn arrangements (Disc Three, tracks 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 & 12; Disc Five, track 18)
• Snooky Young
  Snooky Young
  Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known for his mastery of the plunger mute, with which he was able to create a wide range of sounds.-Biography:...
  
   – trumpet, flugelhorn (Disc Three, tracks 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 & 12)
• Cleotha Staples and Yvonne Staples – backing vocals (Disc Five, track 19)
• Libby Titus – backing vocals (Disc Four, track 4)
• Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
  , Dee Dee Warwick
  Dee Dee Warwick
  Dee Dee Warwick was an American soul singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey as Delia Mae Warrick, she was the sister of Dionne Warwick, niece of Cissy Houston and cousin of Whitney Houston....
  
   and Cissy Houston
  Cissy Houston
  Emily "Cissy" Houston is a Grammy Award–winning American soul and gospel singer. She led a very successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, Wishbone Ash and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist...
  
   – backing vocals (Disc One, track 2)
• A. N. Other – horns (Disc Three, track 1; Disc Five, track 14)