Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The Band : Moondog Matinee (2001 Reissue)


IF YOU'RE A WAITING

ON THE 444

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THAT TRAIN

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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.

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 songs 

was all we could do."

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. 

John Bauldie 

in Q Magazine 

called the re-issued album

 'funny, 

affectionate

 and

 immaculately polished'

 in 1991

TRACKLIST


Ain't Got No Home

Holy Cow

Share Your Love

Mystery Train

Third Man Theme

Promised Land

The Great Pretender

I'm Ready

Saved

A Change Is Gonna Come

Didn't It Rain 

(Outtake)

Crying Heart Blues

 (Outtake)

Shakin' 

(Outtake)

What Am I Living For 

(Outtake)

Going Back To Memphis

 (Outtake)

Endless Highway 

(Studio Version)

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