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Moondog Matinee is the fifth studio album by Canadian/American rock group the Band, released in 1973. It consists entirely of cover material reflecting the group's love of R&B and blues music, with one exception in their interpretation of the theme from the film The Third Man.

Moondog Matinee
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 15, 1973
RecordedMarch–June 1973
Studio
  • Bearsville (Woodstock, New York)
  • Capitol (Hollywood)
GenreRock
Length35:09
LabelCapitol
ProducerThe Band
The Band chronology
Rock of Ages
(1972)
Moondog Matinee
(1973)
Planet Waves
(1974)
Reissue cover
Australian alternate cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[2]
DownBeat[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[4]
MusicHound5/5[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Q Magazine[7]

In a 2002 interview, Levon Helm described the reasoning for recording an album of covers: "That was all we could do at the time. We couldn't get along—we all knew that fairness was a bunch of shit. We all knew we were getting screwed, so we couldn't sit down and create no more music. 'Up on Cripple Creek' and all that stuff was over—all that collaboration was over, and that type of song was all we could do."[8]

The original idea had been to replicate the group's setlists of the mid-'60s when they had been known as Levon and the Hawks, playing clubs throughout Canada and the US. Of the ten tracks, only one, "Share Your Love (With Me)" had been performed by the group in the mid-'60s. The rest were merely tracks the group admired, two of them, "Holy Cow" and "A Change Is Gonna Come", chronologically coming after the group's club days.

Rhapsody praised the album, calling it one of its favorite cover albums.[9] John Bauldie in Q Magazine called the re-issued album 'funny, affectionate and immaculately polished' in 1991.[7]


Track listing



Side one


No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Ain't Got No Home"Clarence "Frogman" HenryLevon Helm3:20
2."Holy Cow"Allen ToussaintRick Danko, Helm3:15
3."Share Your Love (With Me)"Deadric Malone, Alfred BraggsRichard Manuel2:50
4."Mystery Train"Junior Parker, Sam Phillips, Robbie Robertson (additional lyrics)Helm5:35
5."Third Man Theme"Anton KarasInstrumental2:43

Side two


No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Promised Land"Chuck BerryHelm3:00
2."The Great Pretender"Buck RamManuel3:07
3."I'm Ready"Fats Domino, Al Lewis, Sylvester BradfordHelm3:22
4."Saved"Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerManuel3:42
5."A Change Is Gonna Come"Sam CookeDanko4:15

2001 reissue bonus tracks


No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
11."Didn't It Rain" (Outtake)Traditional, arr. by Roberta MartinHelm3:16
12."Crying Heart Blues" (Outtake)Joe BrownDanko3:29
13."Shakin'" (Outtake)CookeHelm3:31
14."What Am I Living For" (Outtake)Fred Jay, Art HarrisHelm5:04
15."Going Back to Memphis" (Outtake)BerryHelm5:02
16."Endless Highway" (Studio version)RobertsonDanko5:09

Personnel


The Band
Additional personnel
Technical

References


  1. link
  2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  3. "The Band: Moondog Matinee". DownBeat. October 2001. p. 66.
  4. "The Band: Moondog Matinee". Entertainment Weekly. May 25, 2001. p. 81.
  5. Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 72. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  6. Brackett, Nathan, with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 42. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  7. Bauldie, John (5 March 1991). "Stories". Q Magazine. Vol. 84. p. 10.
  8. Lopate, Mitch. "He Shall Be Levon...: The Band's Levon Helm Is Rocking Harder Than Ever With The Barnburners", GRITZ magazine, Fall 2002.
  9. Rhapsody’s Favorite Covers Albums retrieved 01-08-10 Archived 2010-07-31 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. Bowman, Rob. (liner notes) Moondog Matinee, (remastered edition), 2001

На других языках


[de] Moondog Matinee

Moondog Matinee ist das fünfte Studioalbum der kanadischen Folk- und Country-Rock-Gruppe The Band. Es erschien am 15. Oktober 1973 über das Label Capitol Records.[1] Moondog Matinee enthält ausschließlich Coverversionen von Stücken anderer Interpreten,[2] hauptsächlich von alten R&B- und Blues-Liedern.[3] Ursprünglich hatte man für das Album das Repertoire aufnehmen wollen, das die Band in ihrer frühen Phase gespielt hatte, als sie noch unter dem Namen Levon and the Hawks durch die Klubs von Kanada und den Vereinigten Staaten gezogen war. Im Endeffekt befand sich dann aber nur ein einziger Titel aus dieser Phase, Share Your Love (With Me), tatsächlich auf dem Album.[4] Die anderen Lieder waren schlicht Lieblingsstücke der Musiker.
- [en] Moondog Matinee

[es] Moondog Matinee

Moondog Matinee es el sexto álbum de estudio del grupo canadiense de rock The Band, publicado por la compañía discográfica Capitol Records en octubre de 1973.[4] Está conformado exclusivamente por versiones de canciones clásicas de rock and roll, blues y R&B de la década de 1960, y está pensado con la idea de versionar temas que el grupo interpretaba con frecuencia en sus primeros años, cuando acompañaba a Ronnie Hawkins.[1]

[it] Moondog Matinee

Moondog Matinee è il quinto album in studio del gruppo musicale canadese-statunitense The Band, pubblicato nel 1973. Si tratta di un disco di cover.



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