Live at the Wolf is the first live album by 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...

's member 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...

, and his wife Maud. It's only a Piano-Accordion-vocal album.

This album is a recording of an intimate performance by the Hudsons, who were there to celebrate the opening weekend of the new London Public Library's wonderful Wolf Performance Hall in London, Ontario

London, Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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Track listing

1. "Every Time I See The Sun" (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...
   
   ) -7:10
2. "It Makes No Difference" (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...
   
   ) -4:30
3. "Stand By Me" (Albert Tindley) -5:04
4. "International Medley" (Garth Hudson) -5:43
5. "Willow Weep For Me" (Ann Ronell
   Ann Ronell
   Ann Rosenblatt, known as Ann Ronell was an American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard "Willow Weep for Me" .- Biography :...
   
   ) -5:39
6. "You'll Be Thinkin'" (Maud Hudson) -3:37
7. "Young Blood
   Young Blood
   "Young Blood" is a song written by the songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, together with Doc Pomus, in 1957.The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe.-Structure:...
   
   " (Jerry Leiber/Doc Pomus
   Doc Pomus
   Jerome Solon Felder, better known as Doc Pomus , was a twentieth-century American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category of non-performer in 1992. He was also inducted into...
   
   /Mike Stoller) -2:53
8. "Beyond the Breakers" (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...
   
   /Eric Andersen
   Eric Andersen
   Eric Andersen is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:In the early 1960s, Eric Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York...
   
   ) -4:02
9. "Concert Hora" (Traditional) -2:03
10. "Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell , was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he used exclusively a twelve-string guitar...
    
    " (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...
    
    ) -3:54
11. "Give Ear Unto My Prayer" (Jacob Arcadelt) -1:03
12. "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...
    
    " (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...
    
    ) -5:48
13. "Little Island Blues" (Garth Hudson) -2:03
    • Studio Bonus track

Production

• Lance Anderson: Producer, mixing, liner notes.
• Eddie Baltimore: Location recording engineer.
• Bruce Longman: Assistant engineer.
• Garth Hudson: Mixing, liner notes.
• Maud Hudson: Liner notes.
• Inaam Haq: Studio engineer, mixing.
• Peter J. Moore: Mastering.
• Kathy Hunt: Pre-Production
• Dave Mizrahi: Pre-Production
• Jeff Mochrie: Pre-Production
• Paul Reid: Pre-Production
• Slawomira Weber: Pre-Production
• James Stewart Reaney: Liner Notes