The Band- The Last Waltz [6LP] (180 Gram, lift-top box) 40th Anniversary/2016 The Band- The Last Waltz [6LP] (180 Gram, lift-top box) 40th Anniversary/2016

40th Anniversary 180g Vinyl 6LP Box Set Housed In Ornate Lift-Top Box!

Complete audio from the concert, including rehearsals and outtakes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl for the first time and presented in an ornate lift-top box.

The Last Waltz was a concert by The Band held on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

By 1976, Robbie Robertson was weary of touring. After having to cancel tour dates due to Richard Manuel's suffering a severe neck injury in a boating accident, Robertson urged the Band to retire from touring and conceived of a "farewell concert" known as The Last Waltz.

Guests artists appearing in the concert include Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Neil Diamond, and more.

The Band, more than any other group, put rock and roll back in touch with its roots. With their ageless songs and solid grasp of musical idioms, the Band reached across the decades, making connections for a generation that was, as an era of violent cultural schisms wound down, in desperate search of them. They projected a sense of community in the turbulent late Sixties and early Seventies - a time when the fabric of community in the United States was fraying. Guitarist Robbie Robertson drew from history in his evocative, cinematic story-songs, and the vocal triumvirate of bassist Rick Danko, drummer Levon Helm and keyboardist Richard Manuel joined in rustic harmony and traded lines in rich, conversational exchanges. Multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson provided musical coloration in period styles that evoked everything from rural carnivals of the early 20th century to rock and roll revues of the Fifties.

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• 6LP Box Set
• Ornate lift-top box

Selections:
Side A:
1. Theme From the Last Waltz
2. Up On Cripple Creek
3. The Shape I'm In
4. It Makes No Difference
Side B:
5. Who Do You Love (feat. Ronnie Hawkins)
6. Life Is A Carnival
7. Such A Night (feat. Dr. John)
8. The Weight
9. Down South In New Orleans (feat. Bobby Charles)

Side C:
1. This Wheels On Fire
2. Mystery Train (feat. Paul Butterfield0
3. Caldonia
4. Mannish Boy (feat. Muddy Waters)
Side D:
5. Stagefright
6. Rag Mama Rag
7. All Our Past Times
8. Further On Up the Road (feat. Eric Clapton

Side E:
1. Ophelia
2. Helpless (feat. Neil Young)
3. Four Strong Winds
4. Coyote (feat. Joni Mitchell)
Side F:
5. Shadows and Light
6. Furry Sings the Blues
7. Acadian Driftwood
8. Dry Your Eyes

Side G:
1. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show
2. Tura Lura Lural [That's An Irish Lullaby] (feat. Van Morrison)
3. Caravan (feat. Van Morrison)
4. The Night They drove Old Dixie Down
5. The Genetic Method / Chest Fever
Side H:
6. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (feat. Bob Dylan)
7. Hazel
8. I Don't Believe You [She Acts Like We Never Have Met] (feat. Bob Dylan)
9. Forever Young (feat. Bob Dylan)
10. Baby Let Me Follow You Down [Reprise] (feat. Bob Dylan)
11. I Shall Be Released [Finale] (Ensemble)

Side I:
1. Jam #1
2. Jam #2
3. Don't Do It
4. Greensleeves (soundtrack version)
Side J - The Last Waltz Suite:
5. The Well
6. Evangeline (feat. Emmylou Harris)
7. Out of the Blue
8. The Weight (feat. The Staples)
9. The Last Waltz Refrain
10. Theme from The Last Waltz (feat. orchestra)

Side K - rehearsal versions:
1. King Harvest
2. Tura Lura Lural
3. Caravan
4. Such A Night
5. Rag Mama Rag
Side L:
6. Mad Waltz [Sketch track for "The Well"] (studio version)
7. The Last Waltz Refrain (instrumental)
8. The Last Waltz Theme (Sketch)

2016 Rhino

11/11/16