From Billboard.com:
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Robertson Crafting Band Box Set
Fans of the Band should mark their calendars for May 2005, when Capitol/EMI is slated to release a box set, curated by band member Robbie Robertson. "I'm working on the definitive musical history of the Band," Robertson tells Billboard. The seminal group, which included Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel, famously disbanded in 1976, as captured in the Martin Scorsese-directed concert film, "The Last Waltz."
Robertson says the five-CD set will include more than 100 songs, many of them previously unreleased, as well as a DVD. The artist was also involved in "Across the Great Divide," a three-CD set released in 1994. However, this Band collection will include more unreleased material.
Billboard caught up with Robertson at a party for the film "Ladder 49," where he performed his song "Shine Your Light," the movie's end title, and jammed with Dave Stewart and the party's host, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Robertson says he is also revisiting the music for "Raging Bull" for a two-CD soundtrack that will be released Feb. 15 by Capitol. He wrote the source music and scored three pieces for the 1980 movie, as well as selected the other music with director Scorsese.
"I'm just finishing mixing and compiling the original music. It's 38 tracks," Robertson says. Additionally, he and Scorsese wrote the liner notes. It marks the first time a soundtrack to the film has been released. A special-edition DVD of "Raging Bull" comes out Dec. 14.
But Robertson seems most excited about his work on a Native American musical with the working title "Ceremony." The artist, who is part Native American, is writing the music for the Broadway project, David Henry Wang ("M. Butterfly") is penning the book and David Lavoie ("Nine") is directing.
-- Melinda Newman, L.A.
New Box Set From The Band On The Way
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Actually they're a Canadian band but I know what you mean. They captured that American-rootsy sound as well as anybody.citcat wrote:Ahhh....yet another great Southern band. First Fogerty, now The Band.....I'm deja vu-ing all over again back to my college days. Now if Rotary Connection would just get bizzy! Oh wait....they can't.
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NOPE,I'M NORMAL....EVERYONE ELSE IS F*CKED UPnycparrothead wrote:You're such a freak dude!tommcat327 wrote:NEVER HEARD OF 'EM
YOU MEAN DA BAND?THOSE NO TALENT IDIOTS THAT P.DIDDY PUT TOGETHER FOR THAT DUMBASS MTV SHOW?
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Only 80% Canadian. Levon Helm is from Arkansas.Jahfin wrote:Actually they're a Canadian band but I know what you mean. They captured that American-rootsy sound as well as anybody.citcat wrote:Ahhh....yet another great Southern band. First Fogerty, now The Band.....I'm deja vu-ing all over again back to my college days. Now if Rotary Connection would just get bizzy! Oh wait....they can't.
I realize that but they've always been considered a Canadian band.MG wrote:Only 80% Canadian. Levon Helm is from Arkansas.Jahfin wrote:Actually they're a Canadian band but I know what you mean. They captured that American-rootsy sound as well as anybody.citcat wrote:Ahhh....yet another great Southern band. First Fogerty, now The Band.....I'm deja vu-ing all over again back to my college days. Now if Rotary Connection would just get bizzy! Oh wait....they can't.