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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 the Band
Released	October 15, 1973
Recorded	March–June 1973
Studio	Bearsville (Woodstock, New York) Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre	Rock
Length	35:09
Label	Capitol
Producer	The Band
The Band chronology
Rock of Ages (1972) Moondog Matinee (1973) Planet Waves (1974)
Reissue cover
Australian alternate cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[2]
DownBeat	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
MusicHound	5/5[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

Side two

• Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–10 on CD reissues.

2001 reissue bonus tracks

Personnel

The Band

• Rick Danko – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
• Levon Helm – drums, electric guitar, bass guitar, double bass, vocals
• Garth Hudson – organ, piano, clavinet, synthesizer, saxophones
• Richard Manuel – acoustic and electric piano, drums, vocals
• Robbie Robertson – electric and acoustic guitars

Additional personnel

• Billy Mundi – drums on "Ain't Got No Home" and "Promised Land"[10]
• Ben Keith – steel guitar on "Promised Land"

Technical

• Mark Harman – engineer
• Jay Ranellucci – engineer
• John Wilson – engineer
• Edward Kasper – artwork

References

На других языках

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[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.

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- [en] Moondog Matinee

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[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]

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[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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