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DON'T STOP HERE ANYMORE
is the fifth
studio album
by
Canadian/American
Rock group
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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