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Northern Lights – Southern Cross is the sixth studio album by Canadian-American rock group the Band, released in 1975. It was the first album to be recorded at their new California studio, Shangri-La, and the first album of all new material since 1971's Cahoots. All eight songs are credited as compositions of guitarist Robbie Robertson.

Northern Lights – Southern Cross
Studio album by The Band
Released	November 1, 1975 (1975-11-01)
Recorded	Spring–Summer 1975
Studio	Shangri-La Studio, Zuma Beach, California
Genre	Roots rock, folk rock, country rock, Americana
Length	40:40
Label	Capitol
Producer	The Band
The Band chronology
The Basement Tapes (1975) Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975) The Best of the Band (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[2]
MusicHound	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Northern Lights – Southern Cross was recorded using a 24-track tape recorder, which allowed Garth Hudson to include multiple layers of keyboards on several tracks.

Three songs from the album – "It Makes No Difference", "Ophelia" and "Acadian Driftwood" – were performed at The Last Waltz, the Band's 1976 "final performance". "It Makes No Difference" and "Ophelia" were included in the Last Waltz film and on the original 1978 soundtrack album, and "Acadian Driftwood" was included in the 2002 extended re-release of the soundtrack album. These songs in particular have enjoyed subsequent revivals and cover versions. "Acadian Driftwood" was featured in a 1984 CBC-TV special titled Murray McLauchlan's Floating Over Canada. The only Band member to appear in the sequence was Levon Helm. In this presentation of the song, Levon, his wife Sandy Helm, and Murray McLauchlan depict the expulsion of Acadian citizens by British forces.

The album was well-received critically: Rolling Stone declared that The Band had kicked "a field goal",[5] and, while he was put off by the sentimentality of the lyrics, Robert Christgau wrote "the pure comeliness of every melody on this album led to an immediate infatuation."[6] John Bauldie in Q Magazine called the album "glossy and slick" and lamented that the close-knit aspect of the group playing together had disappeared.[7]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Robbie Robertson.

Side one

Side two

• Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–8 on CD reissues.

Bonus track listing from 2001 re-release

Personnel

The Band [9]

• Rick Danko – bass, guitar, violin, harmonica, vocals, mixing
• Levon Helm – drums, guitar, percussion, vocals
• Garth Hudson – organ, keyboards, accordion, saxophones, synthesizers, piccolo, brass, woodwind, chanter, bass, mixing
• Richard Manuel – acoustic and electric piano, keyboards, organ, drums, clavinet, percussion, vocals
• Robbie Robertson – guitars, piano, clavinet, melodica, percussion, mixing

Additional personnel

• Byron Berline – fiddle on "Acadian Driftwood"
• Nat Jeffrey – engineer, mixing
• Rob Fraboni – engineer, mixing
• Ed Anderson – engineer

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1976	Billboard 200	26

Singles - Billboard (United States)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1976	"Ophelia"	Hot 100	62[10]

External links

•  – Peter Viney's article on "Acadian Driftwood" at theband.hiof.no
•  – Peter Viney's article on "Jupiter Hollow" at theband.hiof.no

References

На других языках

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[de] Northern Lights – Southern Cross

Northern Lights – Southern Cross ist das sechste Studioalbum der kanadischen Folk- und Country-Rock-Gruppe The Band. Es erschien am 1. November 1975 auf dem Label Capitol Records. Das Album war das erste der Gruppe seit Cahoots von 1971, das ausschließlich Eigenkompositionen enthielt. Auch weihten die Musiker mit Northern Lights – Southern Cross ihr neues Studio „Shangri-La“ in Kalifornien ein. Der Sound des Albums ist weit stärker von damals sehr modernen Synthesizer-Klängen geprägt als die frühen Alben der Band. Die Überlagerung vieler Synth-Spuren wurde durch die Benutzung eines 24-Kanal-Mischpultes ermöglicht.

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- [en] Northern Lights – Southern Cross

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[es] Northern Lights - Southern Cross

Northern Lights - Southern Cross —en español: Luces del norte-Cruz del sur— es el séptimo álbum de estudio del grupo canadiense de rock The Band, publicado por la compañía discográfica Capitol Records en noviembre de 1975. Fue el primer trabajo del grupo con nuevo material en cuatro años desde el lanzamiento de Cahoots (1971), tras producir un disco de versiones, Moondog Matinee (1973) y respaldar a Bob Dylan tanto en la grabación de Planet Waves (1974) como en la primera gira del músico en ocho años.[8][9]

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[it] Northern Lights - Southern Cross

Northern Lights - Southern Cross è il sesto album in studio del gruppo musicale canadese-statunitense The Band, pubblicato nel 1975.

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