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August 12, 2009

Remembering Woodstock: Robbie Robertson
December 18, 2006

The Band Drummer Levon Helm Rambles On

A barnstorming experience: The intimate Woodstock concert series shows no sign of slowing down
November 4, 2005

The Band Looks Back

Six-disc set offers almost every song the group ever recorded
April 15, 2004

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 50) The Band

By Lucinda Williams

Recordings and Reviews

A Musical History

It's a monumental history indeed -- five CDs, 102 tracks, a 108-page book, a nine-performance DVD -- and clearly not intended for the casual fan. But then the Band, who revolutionized popular music while backing Bob Dylan in the mid-Sixties and then with the 1968 release of their debut album, Music...

2005 RS: 5of 5 Stars

Jericho

1993

The Last Waltz

1978

Islands

1977

Northern Lights, Southern Cross

1975

Moondog Matinee

1973

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Biography

With its rock-ribbed, austerely precise arrangements and a catalogue of songs that linked American folklore to primal myths, the Band — four Canadians and a Southerner — made music that was both earthy and mystical, still unsurpassed in its depth and originality. The group had been playing together for most of a decade before it recorded its first album in 1968. Beginning with Levon He...

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