The Band – Rock Of Ages
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The Band’s ultimate live album recorded at its career peak!
180-gram vinyl pressed at Quality Record Pressings
The Last Waltz gets bigger billing, but The Band’s 1972 live album Rock of Ages is actually the better representation of a live Band album. Recorded at the tail end of the group’s Cahoots tour and over the course of four nights at New York’s Academy of Music at the end of December 1971, the incendiary concert set bookmarks the close of the first phase of the collective’s career.
Rather than follow the lead of most other live records made at the time (and many since), The Band resists any temptation to improvise or extend its material. Instead, the group plays with an intensity, chemistry, and spirit that’s nearly unrivaled by any other live album. The quintet also draws on a secret weapon: One Allen Toussaint, who tailors expert horn arrangements for multiple songs, a move that spices renditions of classics such as “Don’t Do It” and “Chest Fever.” To top it all off, the horn charts are performed by the Rock of Ages horn section — a five-piece ensemble that includes legendary trumpeter Snooky Young (Count Basie, Lionel Hampton) and saxophonist Joe Farrell (Charles Mingus, Elvin Jones).
“I felt very much at home with The Band. You could tell in their music they know where they’re coming from and they know where they’re going. Each one had an extremely special interest in what they were doing.” — Toussaint told Rob Bowman.
Format : Vinyl Record
2 Lp
Label : Capitol
1 in stock
Description
Side 1
1. Don’t Do It
2. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
3. Caledonia Mission
4. Get Up Jake
5. W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
Side 2
6. Stage Fright
7. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
8. Across The Great Divide
9. Wheels On Fire
10. Rag Mama Rag
Side 3
11. The Weight
12. The Shape I’m In
13. Unfaithful Servant
14. Life Is A Carnival
Side 4
15. The Genetic Method
16. Chest Fever
17. (I Don’t Want To) Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes