From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000977107
By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
As first tipped here last September, the Band will be the subject of a comprehensive boxed set this fall that will feature 37 previously unreleased tracks. Due Sept. 27 via Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing, "A Musical History" will include five audio discs and a DVD featuring a wealth of rare live performance footage.
The 111-song box begins with formative tracks the Band crafted with Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan in the early and mid-1960s, including previously unreleased "song sketches" of "Words and Numbers," "Beautiful Thing," "Caledonia Mission" and "The Stones I Throw."
Beyond such classics as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Weight," the late '60s/early '70s are represented with previously unreleased live versions of "Strawberry Wine," "Rockin' Chair" and "Look Out Cleveland," taped June 2, 1971, at London's Royal Albert Hall.
The latter portion of the group's career is augmented with a previously unreleased live collaboration with Dylan on "Highway 61 Revisited" (taped Jan. 31, 1974, in New York) and such rarities as a "song sketch" of "Twilight" and a live take on "Forbidden Fruit."
The DVD contains a bounty of gems from the vault, including the Band's three-song, Oct. 30, 1976, performance on "Saturday Night Live," which has never been released in its entirety. Other performances were captured at Robbie Robertson's studio ("Jam"/"King Harvest (Has Surely Come)"), on the famed Festival Express tour of Canada ("Long Black Veil," "Rockin' Chair") and at London's Wembley Stadium ("The Genetic Method"/"Chest Fever").
"A Musical History," which was overseen by Robertson with producers Cheryl Pawelski and Andrew Sandoval, will be packaged with a 108-page hardbound book.
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From RollingStone.com:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... on=single1
The Band Looks Back
Six-disc set offers almost every song the group ever recorded
Song sketchers
"The passion for the unreleased material hasn't surprised me, because when I heard it I got very excited myself," says Robbie Robertson of the thirty-seven previously unavailable tracks on the Band's critically acclaimed new box set, A Musical History. The five-CD (plus DVD) career-spanning collection includes early Levon and the Hawks tunes, live tracks from a 1971 Royal Albert Hall gig and alternate takes from the Music From Big Pink sessions -- in addition to most of the music Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel officially released. "That's one of the things that prompted me to do this now," says Robertson, who spent more than two years working on the box. "A lot of tracks I thought were lost were found."
The 111-song set touches on the historic 1965-66 period when the Band doubled as Bob Dylan's backing group just as Dylan was going electric -- with live versions of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" and "Tell Me Mama." "We had no idea how traumatic that would be, that we were joining a musical revolution," Robertson says. "I don't know how many other people out there have been booed all over the world, but it's true what they say -- it builds character." Among Robertson's personal favorites is an alternate take of "4% Pantomime," a trippy 1971 collaboration between the Band and Van Morrison. "That version is just one of those moments -- it's otherworldly to me," says Robertson. "I wrote the song that afternoon, and we recorded it that night. I remember Richard Manuel nearly ran over Van in the snow in his car." Beyond the audio, the set's DVD features concert footage from a Wembley Stadium gig, a jam filmed in the studio in 1970 and a 1976 stop on Saturday Night Live shortly before The Last Waltz.
Robertson even likes the alternate versions and "song sketches," where the picture gets a little blurry. "One of the things I'm enjoying about this journey is that it has those valleys as well as those hills," he says. "There are a couple of songs where I thought I was on to something for a minute, then after the weed wore off it didn't sound as good."
Robertson -- who's now working on a musical about the Native American experience with director David Leveaux and playwright David Henry Hwang -- remains proud of the Band's legacy: "I hear all the time how that music touched a nerve, and it's something to be grateful for. I played at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Bo Diddley, and I felt the same way about him that guys today feel about the Band's music."
DAVID WILD
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... on=single1
The Band Looks Back
Six-disc set offers almost every song the group ever recorded
Song sketchers
"The passion for the unreleased material hasn't surprised me, because when I heard it I got very excited myself," says Robbie Robertson of the thirty-seven previously unavailable tracks on the Band's critically acclaimed new box set, A Musical History. The five-CD (plus DVD) career-spanning collection includes early Levon and the Hawks tunes, live tracks from a 1971 Royal Albert Hall gig and alternate takes from the Music From Big Pink sessions -- in addition to most of the music Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel officially released. "That's one of the things that prompted me to do this now," says Robertson, who spent more than two years working on the box. "A lot of tracks I thought were lost were found."
The 111-song set touches on the historic 1965-66 period when the Band doubled as Bob Dylan's backing group just as Dylan was going electric -- with live versions of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" and "Tell Me Mama." "We had no idea how traumatic that would be, that we were joining a musical revolution," Robertson says. "I don't know how many other people out there have been booed all over the world, but it's true what they say -- it builds character." Among Robertson's personal favorites is an alternate take of "4% Pantomime," a trippy 1971 collaboration between the Band and Van Morrison. "That version is just one of those moments -- it's otherworldly to me," says Robertson. "I wrote the song that afternoon, and we recorded it that night. I remember Richard Manuel nearly ran over Van in the snow in his car." Beyond the audio, the set's DVD features concert footage from a Wembley Stadium gig, a jam filmed in the studio in 1970 and a 1976 stop on Saturday Night Live shortly before The Last Waltz.
Robertson even likes the alternate versions and "song sketches," where the picture gets a little blurry. "One of the things I'm enjoying about this journey is that it has those valleys as well as those hills," he says. "There are a couple of songs where I thought I was on to something for a minute, then after the weed wore off it didn't sound as good."
Robertson -- who's now working on a musical about the Native American experience with director David Leveaux and playwright David Henry Hwang -- remains proud of the Band's legacy: "I hear all the time how that music touched a nerve, and it's something to be grateful for. I played at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Bo Diddley, and I felt the same way about him that guys today feel about the Band's music."
DAVID WILD