Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 72/100!
Michael Fremer Rated 10/10 Music, 9/10 Sound in his October 2013 reviews on www.analogplanet.com!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 57/500!
The Band The Band on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity! Pressed at RTI!
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
Incalculably Influential: The Bands Self-Titled Sophomore Release a Country- and Folk-Rock Benchmark
Guitarist Robbie Robertson and Drummer Levon Helm Take Reigns on Americana-Flavored Set
Includes Staples The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Across the Great Divide, Up On Cripple Creek
Many believe its the most perfect Americana album ever made. The 1969 touchstone very well may be. Advancing the chemistry and cohesion of the groups ground-shifting debut, The Band is an inimitable distillation of compelling storytelling, cosmic divinity, loose country-rock tunefulness, and superbly crafted songwriting. Warm, literate, poignant, and intimate, the record established new standards for seemingly effortless telepathic interplay among first-class musicians whose creations are as much about feeling as they are about sound.
Mastered on Mobile Fidelitys world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this collectable LP burrows into the sonic heart of hearth-rich fare that balances Appalachias mountain flavors, the Old Wests rollicking free spiritedness, Canadas limitless vast folk sprawl, and the Deep Souths whiskey-soaked drawl. Arkansas native Levon Helm blends his rural roots with guitarist Robbie Robertsons allegorical narratives, the pair meeting at a crossroads that, on this pressing, reveals textures as organic as cotton and tonalities as timeless as the look of classic filmstrips. Notes hover and naturally decay; cascading harmonies waft and reverberate; soundstages open up and extend, providing generous spaces for each members invaluable contributions to relax, settle, and enter into a wholesome communion.
Indeed, a force normally associated with higher powers appears to guide each one of the 12 tracks, honed to perfection by co-writer Robertson and his simpatico mates. Sensitive, graceful, magnetic, entirely genuine: Whether focusing on Richard Manuels spiritual piano chords and evocative tenor, Rick Dankos simple albeit direct bass lines and melancholy deliveries, Robertsons pull-no-punches leads, Garth Hudsons majestically tuckpointed organ runs, or Helms percussive rhythms, a sense of astonishment and truth dignifies arrangements steeped in meditative properties and barn-dance rawness.
From the swampy bayou grooves, jaw-harp-mimicking clavinet passages, and traditional yodels found on Up on Cripple Creek to the jubilant dance persuasion of Rag Mama Rag, The Band blends mythological devices with authentic melodies, rustic acoustic properties with haunting harmonies. Universally identifiable, the characters in the songs are people well-versed in hardship, depression, working-class struggle, and Skid Row trouble. Musically, the group balances sweetness and edginess on all of its foundational material, capturing the essence of American music and culture like no band before or since.
"A completely successful major restoration of one the great records of the rock era and that includes the jacket, which is perfect in every way. The longer I live, the more I find myself marveling at the beauty of "Whispering Pines". It has come to be my favorite song on the record. I have never heard it revealed as cleanly as on this reissue." - Michael Fremer, www.analogplanet.com, rated 10/10 Music, 9/10 Sound
Features:
Numbered, Limited Edition
Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
Pressed at RTI
Musicians:
Garth Hudson, organ, clavinette, piano, accordion, soprano, tenor and baritone-sax, slide trumpet
Richard Manuel: vocals, piano, drums, baritone-sax, mouth harp
Levon Helm, vocals, drums, mandolin, guitar
Rick Danko, vocals, bass, violin, trombone
Jaime Robbie Robertson, guitar, engineer
John Simon, tuba, electric piano, high school and peck horns, engineer
Selections:
Side One:
1. Across the Great Divide
2. Rag Mama Rag
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
4. When You Awake
5. Up on Cripple Creek
6. Whispering Pines
Side Two:
1. Jemima Surrender
2. Rockin Chair
3. Lookout Cleveland
4. Jawbone
5. The Unfaithful Servant
6. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
Michael Fremer Rated 10/10 Music, 9/10 Sound in his October 2013 reviews on www.analogplanet.com!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 57/500!
The Band The Band on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity! Pressed at RTI!
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
Incalculably Influential: The Bands Self-Titled Sophomore Release a Country- and Folk-Rock Benchmark
Guitarist Robbie Robertson and Drummer Levon Helm Take Reigns on Americana-Flavored Set
Includes Staples The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Across the Great Divide, Up On Cripple Creek
Many believe its the most perfect Americana album ever made. The 1969 touchstone very well may be. Advancing the chemistry and cohesion of the groups ground-shifting debut, The Band is an inimitable distillation of compelling storytelling, cosmic divinity, loose country-rock tunefulness, and superbly crafted songwriting. Warm, literate, poignant, and intimate, the record established new standards for seemingly effortless telepathic interplay among first-class musicians whose creations are as much about feeling as they are about sound.
Mastered on Mobile Fidelitys world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this collectable LP burrows into the sonic heart of hearth-rich fare that balances Appalachias mountain flavors, the Old Wests rollicking free spiritedness, Canadas limitless vast folk sprawl, and the Deep Souths whiskey-soaked drawl. Arkansas native Levon Helm blends his rural roots with guitarist Robbie Robertsons allegorical narratives, the pair meeting at a crossroads that, on this pressing, reveals textures as organic as cotton and tonalities as timeless as the look of classic filmstrips. Notes hover and naturally decay; cascading harmonies waft and reverberate; soundstages open up and extend, providing generous spaces for each members invaluable contributions to relax, settle, and enter into a wholesome communion.
Indeed, a force normally associated with higher powers appears to guide each one of the 12 tracks, honed to perfection by co-writer Robertson and his simpatico mates. Sensitive, graceful, magnetic, entirely genuine: Whether focusing on Richard Manuels spiritual piano chords and evocative tenor, Rick Dankos simple albeit direct bass lines and melancholy deliveries, Robertsons pull-no-punches leads, Garth Hudsons majestically tuckpointed organ runs, or Helms percussive rhythms, a sense of astonishment and truth dignifies arrangements steeped in meditative properties and barn-dance rawness.
From the swampy bayou grooves, jaw-harp-mimicking clavinet passages, and traditional yodels found on Up on Cripple Creek to the jubilant dance persuasion of Rag Mama Rag, The Band blends mythological devices with authentic melodies, rustic acoustic properties with haunting harmonies. Universally identifiable, the characters in the songs are people well-versed in hardship, depression, working-class struggle, and Skid Row trouble. Musically, the group balances sweetness and edginess on all of its foundational material, capturing the essence of American music and culture like no band before or since.
"A completely successful major restoration of one the great records of the rock era and that includes the jacket, which is perfect in every way. The longer I live, the more I find myself marveling at the beauty of "Whispering Pines". It has come to be my favorite song on the record. I have never heard it revealed as cleanly as on this reissue." - Michael Fremer, www.analogplanet.com, rated 10/10 Music, 9/10 Sound
Features:
Numbered, Limited Edition
Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
Pressed at RTI
Musicians:
Garth Hudson, organ, clavinette, piano, accordion, soprano, tenor and baritone-sax, slide trumpet
Richard Manuel: vocals, piano, drums, baritone-sax, mouth harp
Levon Helm, vocals, drums, mandolin, guitar
Rick Danko, vocals, bass, violin, trombone
Jaime Robbie Robertson, guitar, engineer
John Simon, tuba, electric piano, high school and peck horns, engineer
Selections:
Side One:
1. Across the Great Divide
2. Rag Mama Rag
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
4. When You Awake
5. Up on Cripple Creek
6. Whispering Pines
Side Two:
1. Jemima Surrender
2. Rockin Chair
3. Lookout Cleveland
4. Jawbone
5. The Unfaithful Servant
6. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
