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The Band

The Band

Hand-Cut LP Mastercut Record
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Article Number: 517394000

Archival Tape Edition No. 21

Known to fans and collectors alike as "The Brown Album", The Band's second studio release arrived on September 22, 1969, via Capitol Records - less an album than a sepia-toned scrapbook of mythic Americana.
In the liner notes to the 2000 reissue, music historian Rob Bowman frames it as a kind of concept album, though not in the strict sense. Rather, these songs feel like dispatches from a half-remembered past: dusty rail towns, failing harvests, Civil War ghosts, and bar room philosophers.
Tracks like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” hum with the weight of history, while “Jawbone,” with its off-kilter 6/4 rhythm, teeters like a drunk trying to dance and testify at the same time.
The Band wasn't just chronicling a bygone America - they were conjuring it.

SIDE A 

  • "Across the Great Divide" - 2:53
  • "Rag Mama Rag"  - 3:04
  • "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - 3:33
  • "When You Awake" (Manuel, Robertson) - 3:13
  • "Up on Cripple Creek" - 4:34
  • "Whispering Pines" (Manuel, Robertson) - 3:58

SIDE B 

  • "Jemima Surrender"  (Helm, Robertson) - 3:31
  • "Rockin' Chair" - 3:43
  • "Look Out Cleveland" -  3:09
  • "Jawbone" (Manuel, Robertson) - 4:20
  • "The Unfaithful Servant" - 4:17
  • "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" - 3:39


MUSICIANS

  • Rick Danko – bass guitar, fiddle, trombone, vocals
  • Levon Helm – drums, mandolin, rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Garth Hudson – organ, clavinet, piano, accordion, melodica & more
  • Richard Manuel – piano, drums, baritone saxophone, harmonica, vocals
  • Robbie Robertson – electric and acoustic guitars

RECORDED TO TAPE

  • April 1966 – November 1966
  • Pool house in Holywood Hills - California, The Hit Factory - New York City


Label: Capitol
Production: John Simon

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*The total circulation of this Mastercut release is strictly limited to a maximum total of 999 records.
As of today, the following different editions have been released: Premier Cut: 01-99