Live at Watkins Glen

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Live at Watkins Glen
Live album by The Band

Publication
(s)

April 4, 1995

Label (s) Capitol

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Folk rock , country rock

Title (number)

10

running time

44 min 36 s

occupation

production

The band

chronology
Jericho
(1993) 		Live at Watkins Glen High on the Hog
(1996)

Live at Watkins Glen is a live album by the Canadian folk and country rock group The Band , which was released on April 4, 1995 on Capitol Records . Capitol released the album as a live document of the group's performance at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen on July 28, 1973, a rock music festival that also featured the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band .

However, the reality is a little different. Presumably very few of the recordings on the album actually come from the Watkins Glen Festival. It has been proven that the band did not play some of the songs presented at all at the festival. In addition, the sound of the electric bass and snare drum change slightly between the individual tracks. With a probability bordering on certainty, the songs on the album actually come from three different sources:

  1. Previously unreleased recordings from the concerts in December 1971 that made the Rock of Ages album
  2. Studio recordings from 1973 with applause added later
  3. Edited versions of recordings from the Watkins Glen Festival

Of all the songs on the album, only Too Wet to Work and Jam are actually from the Watkins Glen Festival. Back to Memphis and Endless Highway fall into the second group and are included as bonus tracks on the CD version of Moondog Matinee without the applause . The rest of the songs are from the 1971 recording at the Academy of Music in New York City .

Live at Watkins Glen was not a huge hit with either critics or audiences. The album has also been criticized for not being a regular concert recording and therefore the title being misleading. In addition, most of the songs were already on the CD versions of Moondog Matinee and Rock of Ages , or the box set Across the Great Divide , which made the purchase of the CD unnecessary even for hardcore fans. In general, Rock of Ages and The Last Waltz are considered better live albums by the group in their original line-up.

Track list

  1. Back to Memphis ( Chuck Berry ) - 6:20
  2. Endless Highway ( Robbie Robertson ) - 5:20
  3. I Shall Be Released ( Bob Dylan ) - 4:18
  4. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever ( Ivy Jo Hunter / Stevie Wonder ) - 3:25
  5. Too Wet to Work ( Garth Hudson ) - 3:28
  6. Don't Ya Tell Henry (Dylan) - 4:01
  7. The Rumor (Robertson) - 4:57
  8. Time to Kill (Robertson) - 4:54
  9. Jam ( The Band ) - 3:02
  10. Up on Cripple Creek (Robertson) - 4:49

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