Live at Watkins Glen
Live at Watkins Glen | ||||
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Live album by the Band | ||||
Released | April 4, 1995 | |||
Recorded | August 17, 1969 – July 28, 1973 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 44:36 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | The Band | |||
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Live at Watkins Glen is a 1995 album by the Band, presented by Capitol Records as a live album from the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen rock festival held outside Watkins Glen, New York, on July 28, 1973, in front of 600,000 people. Garth Hudson's organ solo, "Too Wet to Work", and the plainly titled "Jam" come from the actual Watkins Glen concert, as does the introduction of the group by Bill Graham. The former track appears on the out-of-print 1994 box set Across the Great Divide, but the latter track is only present on the Watkins Glen disc. The remainder of the tracks are two studio outtakes with overdubbed crowd noise, "Back to Memphis" and "Endless Highway", plus five tracks from the Academy of Music shows in December 1971 and "Don't Ya Tell Henry" from the Woodstock festival in 1969. The two studio outtakes are available on the 2001 re-release of Moondog Matinee, without the crowd overdubs. The Academy of Music tracks are available on the 2001 two-CD re-release of Rock of Ages as "previously unavailable" tracks.
The album was originally prepared by the Band in 1973 and was supposed to be released in 1974 under the title Is Everybody Wet? but its release was cancelled.[2]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Robbie Robertson unless otherwise noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Source notes | Length |
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1. | "Back to Memphis" | Chuck Berry | March - July 1973 at Bearsville Sound Studio, Bearsville, NY & Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, CA with crowd noise overdubbed; Bill Graham intro from Watkins Glen | 6:16 |
2. | "Endless Highway" | October 1972 at Bearsville Sound Studio, Bearsville, NY with crowd noise overdubbed | 5:18 | |
3. | "I Shall Be Released" | Bob Dylan | December 30, 1971 at Academy of Music, New York, NY | 4:24 |
4. | "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" | Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder | December 29, 1971 at Academy of Music, New York, NY | 3:25 |
5. | "Too Wet to Work" | Garth Hudson | July 28, 1973 at Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, NY | 3:29 |
6. | "Don't Ya Tell Henry" | Dylan | August 17, 1969 at Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Bethel, NY | 4:01 |
7. | "The Rumor" | December 30, 1971 at Academy of Music, New York, NY | 4:57 | |
8. | "Time to Kill" | December 28, 1971 at Academy of Music, New York, NY | 4:54 | |
9. | "Jam" | Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robertson | July 28, 1973 at Summer Jam Watkins Glen, NY | 3:02 |
10. | "Up on Cripple Creek" | December 30, 1971 at Academy of Music, New York, NY | 4:48 |
Personnel
- The Band
- Rick Danko – bass, vocals
- Levon Helm – drums, mandolin, vocals
- Garth Hudson – organ, clavinet
- Richard Manuel – piano, drums, clavinet, vocals
- Robbie Robertson – guitars
- Additional personnel
- Wayne Watkins – reissue producer
References
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Live at Watkins Glen Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
- ^ "The Band in 1972-73" (PDF). theband.hiof.no. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
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- Rock of Ages
- Before the Flood
- The Last Waltz (1978 soundtrack album)
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: The Best of the Band Live in Concert
- Live at Watkins Glen
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966
- The Last Waltz (2002 box set)
- Live at the Academy of Music 1971
- The Best of the Band
- Anthology
- To Kingdom Come
- Across the Great Divide
- The Best of the Band, Vol. II
- Greatest Hits
- A Musical History
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
- The Last Waltz
- Festival Express
- Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
- "Uh-Uh-Uh"
- "The Stones I Throw"
- "Go Go Liza Jane"
- "The Weight" / "I Shall Be Released"
- "Rag Mama Rag" / "The Unfaithful Servant"
- "Up on Cripple Creek" / "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
- "Time to Kill" / "The Shape I'm In"
- "Life Is a Carnival"
- "On a Night Like This" (with Bob Dylan)
- "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" (with Bob Dylan)
- "Ophelia"
- "Atlantic City"
- "Tears of Rage"
- "We Can Talk"
- "Long Black Veil"
- "Chest Fever"
- "Lonesome Suzie
- "This Wheel's on Fire"
- "Across the Great Divide"
- "When You Awake"
- "Whispering Pines"
- "Jemima Surrender"
- "Look Out Cleveland"
- "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)"
- "Sleeping"
- "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show"
- "Daniel and the Sacred Harp"
- "Stage Fright"
- "When I Paint My Masterpiece"
- "4% Pantomime"
- "Don't Do It"
- "Mystery Train"
- "Holy Cow"
- "Acadian Driftwood"
- "It Makes No Difference"
- "Georgia on My Mind"
- "Blind Willie McTell"
- "What Am I Living For"
- Discography
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan World Tour 1966
- Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour
- Cate Brothers
- Ronnie Hawkins
- The Weight Band
- Big Pink
- Shangri-La
- List of Basement Tapes songs
- List of Basement Tapes songs (1975)
- So Many Roads (1965, Helm, Hudson, Robertson)
- The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album (1975, Helm, Hudson)
- No Reason to Cry (1976, Danko, Helm, Hudson, Manuel, Robertson)
- Let It Rock (1995, Bell, Ciarlante, Danko, Helm, Hudson, Weider)
- Carry Me Home (2022, Helm, Weider)
- Endless Highway: The Music of the Band
- The Complete Last Waltz
- This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band