Showing posts with label Americana. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 22, 2025

The Top 100 Songs of 21st Century Americana

Americana –
21st Century:

Top 100 Songs

Americana music is a celebration of roots-oriented musical forms that are heavily associated with the United States. It reaches back hundreds of years to traditional music, gospel, Negro spirituals, folk, blues, and country for its influence although it is framed in a more modern context. It really surfaced in the late ‘60s as an outgrown of the folk rock movement with artists like The Band and The Grateful Dead becoming some of the best known groups to incorporate it into their music. Check out the Dave’s Music Database list The Top 100 Americana Songs from the 20th Century.

Americana, however, was not restricted to the 20th century. In the 21st century, Grammy wins for Album of the Year for the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand, and Mumford & Sons’ Babel made it clear that Americana was not just a throwback sound that had peaked in the 20th century. Therefore the list below is a celebration of New Americana, or Americana in the 21st century.

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1. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2002)
2. The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
3. Hozier “Take Me to Church” (2013)
4. Passenger “Let Her Go” (2012)
5. Hozier “Too Sweet” (2024)
6. Noah Kahan “Stick Season” (2022)
7. Zach Bryan & Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” (2023)
8. The Dixie Chicks “Not Ready to Make Nice” (2006)
9. Mumford & Sons “I Will Wait” (2012)
10. Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow” (2013)

11. Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow “Picture” (2001)
12. Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” (2015)
13. Noah Kahan with Post Malone “Dial Drunk” (2023)
14. The Lumineers “Ophelia” (2016)
15. Mumford & Sons “Little Lion Man” (2009)
16. Brandi Carlile “The Joke” (2017)
17. Ray LaMontagne “You Are the Best Thing” (2008)
18. Zach Bryan “Something in the Orange” (2022)
19. Brandi Carlile “The Story (I Was Made for You)” (2007)
20. Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová “Falling Slowly” (2006)

21. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit “If We Were Vampires” (2017)
22. Bright Eyes “First Day of My Life” (2005)
23. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “S.O.B.” (2015)
24. Alabama Shakes “Hold On” (2012)
25. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros “Home” (2009)
26. The Soggy Bottom Boys “Man of Constant Sorrow” (2001)
27. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Please Read the Lette” (2007)
28. Beck “Lost Cause” (2002)
29. Chris Stapleton “White Horse” (2023)
30. Loretta Lynn & Jack White “Portland, Oregon” (2004)

31. Chris Stapleon “Broken Halos” (2017)
32. John Mellencamp “Our Country” (2006)
33. Mumford & Sons “The Cave” (2009)
34. The Lumineers “Stubborn Love” (2012)
35. Wilco “Jesus, Etc.” (2002)
36. Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker” (2016)
37. Mumford & Sons “Guiding Light” (2018)
38. Mumford & Sons “Believe” (2015)
39. Brandi Carlile “Right on Time” (2021)
40. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” (2007)

41. The Highwomen “Crowded Table” (2019)
42. Bob Dylan “Things Have Changed” (2000)
43. Buce Springsteen “Devils & Dust” (2005)
44. Fleet Foxes “White Winter Hymnal” (2008)
45. Chris Stapleton “Starting Over” (2020)
46. Sturgill Simpson “Turtles All the Way Down” (2014)
47. Lord Huron “The Night We Met” (2015)
48. The Head and the Heart “All We Ever Knew” (2016)
49. Kacey Musgraves “Justified” (2021)
50. Hozier “Someone New” (2014)

51. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “You Worry Me” (2018)
52. Bon Iver “Skinny Love” (2007)
53. Jason Isbell “24 Frames” (2015)
54. Chris Stapleton “You Should Probably Leave” (2020)
55. Kacey Musgraves “Rainbow” (2018)
56. Lucinda Williams “Righteously” (2003)
57. The Lumineers “Gloria” (2019)
58. Ryan Adams “New York, New York” (2001)
59. Zach Bryan “Pink Skies” (2024)
60. Lyle Lovett “12th of June” (2022)

61. Alabama Shakes “Don’t Wanna Fight” (2015)
62. Zach Bryan with The War & the Treaty “Hey Driver” (2023)
63. Courtney Barnett “Pedestrian at Best” (2015)
64. Zach Bryan & the Lumineers “Spotless” (2023)
65. Sharon Van Etten “Seventeen” (2019)
66. Noah Kahan & Hozier “Northern Attitude” (2023)
67. Kacey Musgraves “Merry Go Round” (20120
68. Sufjan Stevens “Chicago” (2005)
69. Brittany Howard “Stay High” (2019)
70. Tracy Chapman “Telling Stories (There Is Friction in the Space Between)” (2000)

71. Bon Iver “Holocene” (2011)
72. John Mellencamp with Bruce Springsteen “Wasted Days” (2021)
73. Kacey Musgraves “Space Cowboy” (2018)
74. The Avett Brothers “Ain’t No Man” (2016)
75. Nathaniel Rateliff “And It’s Still Alright” (2020)
76. The Head and the Heart “Lost in My Mind” (2011)
77. Mumford & Sons “The Wolf” (2015)
78. John Mellencamp “If I Die Sudden” (2008)
79. Hozier “Eat Your Young” (2023)
80. The Avett Brothers “I and Love and You” (2009)

81. Hozier with Mavis Staples “Nina Cried Power” (2018)
82. Neko Case “Hold on Hold On” (2006)
83. Old Crow Medicine Show “Wagon Wheel” (2004)
84. The Head and the Heart “Missed Connection” (2019)
85. Mumford & Sons “Lover of the Light” (2012)
86. Bonnie Raitt “Just Like That” (2022)
87. The Decemberists “This Is Why We Fight” (2011)
88. Sturgill Simpson “In Bloom” (2016)
89. The Lumineers “Life in the City” (2019)
90. Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs “Beg, Steal or Borrow” (2010)

91. Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues” (2011)
92. Neko Case, k.d. lang, & Laura Veirs “Atomic Number” (2016)
93. Phoebe Bridgers “Motion Sickness” (2017)
94. Patty Griffin “Heavenly Day” (2007)
95. Mindy Smith “Come to Jesus” (2004)
96. Keb’ Mo’ with Jaci Velasquez “This Is My Home” (2019)
97. John Prine “I Remember Everything” (2020)
98. The Avett Brothers “Kick Drum Heart” (2009)
99. Shakey Graves “Dearly Departed” (2014)
100. Josh Ritter “Getting Ready to Get Down” (2015)

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First posted 11/22/2025.

   
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Friday, November 21, 2025

20th Century Americana: Top 100 Songs

20th Century Americana:

Top 100 Songs

Americana music is a celebration of roots-oriented musical forms that are heavily associated with the United States. It reaches back hundreds of years to traditional music, gospel, Negro spirituals, folk, blues, and country for its influence although it is framed in a more modern context. It really surfaced in the late ‘60s as an outgrown of the folk rock movement with artists like The Band and The Grateful Dead becoming some of the best known groups to incorporate it into their music.

To create this list, 27 lists focused on Americana songs were aggregated alongside lists about folk, folk rock, country, and country rock. Added into the mix were other songs from artists featured on those lists. Those songs appearing on the most lists were then ranked based on their overall status in Dave’s Music Database. This list is focused on Americana music in the 20th century. A separate list has been created that focuses on Americana music in the 21st century.

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1. The Band “The Weight” (1968)
2. The Band (1969), Joan Baez (1971) “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down”
3. The Band “Up on Cripple Creek” (1969)
4. The Grateful Dead “Truckin’” (1970)
5. The Black Crowes “Hard to Handle” (1990)
6. Bonnie Raitt “Something to Talk About” (1991)
7. The Grateful Dead “Uncle John’s Band” (1970)
8. Neil Young “Harvest Moon” (1992)
9. Steve Earle “Copperhead Road” (1988)
10. Jerry Jeff Walker (1968), The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1970) “Mr. Bojangles”

11. The Grateful Dead (1970), Lyle Lovett (1991) “Friend of the Devil”
12. The Grateful Dead “A Touch of Grey” (1987)
13. Bonnie Raitt “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (1991)
14. Steve Goodman (1971), Arlo Guthrie (1972), Willie Nelson (1984) “City of New Orleans”
15. Stray Cats “Rock This Town” (1981)
16. Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” (1982)
17. John Stewart “Gold” (1979)
18. Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” (1995)
19. Townes Van Zandt (1972), Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard (1983) “Pancho and Lefty”
20. Bonnie Raitt “Love Sneakin’ Up on You” (1994)

21. Bonnie Raitt “Nick of Time” (1989)
22. The Grateful Dead “Sugar Magnolia” (1970)
23. The Black Crowes “Remedy” (1992)
24. The Byrds “Hickory Wind” (1968)
25. Traveling Wilburys “Handle with Care” (1988)
26. Tom Petty “You Don’t Know How It Feels” (1994)
27. Gram Parsons “Return of the Grievous Angel” (1974)
28. Lyle Lovett “If I Had a Boat” (1988)
29. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “An American Dream” (1979)
30. The Grateful Dead “Dark Star” (1968)

31. The Flying Burrito Brothers (1969), Emmylou Harris (1975) “Sin City”
32. The Traveling Wilbuys “End of the Line” (1988)
33. The Byrds “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (1968)
34. Bruce Cockburn “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” (1984)
35. The Black Crowes “Jealous Again” (1990)
36. Bruce Springsteen “The Ghost of Tom Joad” (1995)
37. The Band “Rag Mama Rag” (1969)
38. John Prine (1971), Bonnie Raitt (1971) “Angel from Montgomery”
39. The Black Crowes “She Talks to Angels” (1990)
40. The Grateful Dead “Casey Jones” (1970)

41. Bob Dylan “Mississippi” (1997)
42. Lyle Lovett “She’s No Lady” (1988)
43. Lyle Lovett “Nobody Knows Me” (1989)
44. Lucinda Williams “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” (1998)
45. The Flying Burrito Brothers “Christine’s Tune (Devil in Disguise)” (1969)
46. Gram Parsons “She” (1973)
47. The Byrds “Ballad of Easy Rider” (1969)
48. Robbie Robertson “Somewhere Down the Crazy River” (1987)
49. The Jayhawks “Blue” (1995)
50. The Byrds “One Hundred Years from Now” (1968)

51. John Hiatt “Have a Little Faith in Me” (1987)
52. Stray Cats “Stray Cat Strut” (1981)
53. Bruce Cockburn “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” (1984)
54. Lyle Lovett “Private Conversation” (1996)
55. The Grateful Dead “Ripple” (1970)
56. The Flying Burito Brothers “Hot Burrito #1” (1969)
57. The Grateful Dead “Box of Rain” (1970)
58. Bruce Springsteen “We Shall Overcome” (1998)
59. Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris “Love Hurts” (1974)
60. The Band “I Shall Be Released” (1968)

61. Emmylou Harris “Boulder to Birmingham” (1975)
62. Cracker “Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)” (1992)
63. The Flying Burrito Brothers “Wild Horses” (1970)
64. Dillard & Clark “Train Leaves Here This Morning” (1968)
65. Lyle Lovett “Pontiac” (1988)
66. Bruce Springsteen “Johnny 99” (1982)
67. Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars” (1998)
68. Son Volt “Drown” (1996)
69. Little Feat “Willin’” (1978)
70. Lyle Lovett “Step Inside This House” (1998)

71. Lyle Lovett “Give Back My Heart” (1987)
72. The Jayhawks “Waiting for the Sun” (1992)
73. Lyle Lovett “L.A. County” (1988)
74. Lyle Lovett “Cowboy Man” (1986)
75. Lyle Lovett “Here I Am” (1989)
76. Bob Dylan “Everything Is Broken” (1989)
77. The Grateful Dead “Alabama Getaway” (1980)
78. John Hiatt “Memphis in the Meantime” (1987)
79. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Make a Little Magic” (1980)
80. Steve Earle “Guitar Town” (1986)

81. John Prine “Hello in There” (1971)
82. John Hiatt “Drive South” (1988)
83. Stray Cats “She’s Sexy + 17” (1983)
84. The Black Crowes “Thorn in My Pride” (1992)
85. The Byrds “Chestnut Mare” (1970)
86. The Traveling Wilburys “She’s My Baby” (1990)
87. Bonnie Raitt “Love Letter” (1989)
88. John Hiatt “Child of the Wild Blue Yonder” (1990)
89. John Hiatt “Slow Turning” (1988)
90. Gram Parsons “Brass Buttons” (1974)

91. Bonnie Raitt “Thing Called Love” (1989)
92. John Hiatt “Tennessee Plates” (1988)
93. Lyle Lovett “Church” (1992)
94. Robbie Robertson & BoDeans “Showdown at Big Sky” (1987)
95. Lyle Lovett & Keb’ Mo’ “Till It Shines” (1999)
96. Neil Young “Philadelphia” (1994)
97. The Grateful Dead “Dire Wolf” (1970)
98. Bob Dylan “Dignity” (1989)
99. John Stewart “Midnight Wind” (1979)
100. Lyle Lovett “You Can’t Resist It” (1986)

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First posted 11/20/2025; last updated 11/21/2025.

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Americana: Top 100 All-Time Albums

Americana:

The Top 100 Albums

Americana has become a catch-all phrase for roots-oriented music that taps primarily into folk and country. It has, however, become a genre that also builds off the folk-rock movement of the ‘60s, the country rock movement of the ‘70s, and the alt-country movement of the ‘90s.

The DMDB aggregated more than 30 lists and then took those albums from 3 or more lists and ranked them according to overall DMDB points. It should be noted that I have created separate lists for country and folk/folk-rock albums, but some of those titles also appear here. Check out other best-of-genre/category lists here.

1. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
2. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970)
3. The Band The Band (1969)
4. The Band Music from Big Pink (1968)
5. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
6. Grateful Dead American Beauty (1970)
7. The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
8. Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
9. Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour (2018)
10. Bruce Springsteen Nebraska (1982)

11. Sufjan Stevens Illinois (2005)
12. Chris Stapleton Traveller (2015)
13. Gram Parsons Grievous Angel (1974)
14. Beck Sea Change (2002)
15. Mumford & Sons Sigh No More (2009)
16. Grateful Dead Workingman’s Dead (1970)
17. Mumford & Sons Babel (2012)
18. The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
19. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand (2007)
20. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (2008)

21. Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
22. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
23. Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)
24. Nick Drake Pink Moon (1972)
25. Sturgill Simpson A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (2016)
26. Joanna Newsom Ys (2006)
27. Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline (1969)
28. John Prine John Prine (1972)
29. Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
30. Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)

31. Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell (2015)
32. Gram Parsons G.P. (1973)
33. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
34. Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer, Different Park (2013)
35. Bon Iver Bon Iver (2011)
36. Chris Stapleton Starting Over (2020)
37. Johnny Cash American Recordings (1994)
38. Bright Eyes I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005)
39. Elliott Smith Either/Or (1997)
40. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit The Nashville Sound (2017)

41. Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball (1995)
42. Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You (2018)
43. Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
44. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues (2011)
45. Bruce Springsteen Western Stars (2019)
46. Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator) (2001)
47. The Lumineers The Lumineers (2012)
48. Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
49. Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
50. John Hiatt Bring the Family (1987)

51. Noah Kahan Stick Season (2022)
52. Phoebe Bridgers Punisher (2020)
53. Zach Bryan American Heartbreak (2022)
54. Tom Petty Wildflowers (1994)
55. The Highwomen The Highwomen (2019)
56. Chris Stapleton From a Room, Volume 1 (2017)
57. Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020)
58. Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed (2021)
59. Hozier Hozier (2014)
60. Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams (1988)

61. Steve Earle Guitar Town (1986)
62. Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue (1998)
63. Ryan Adams Heartbreaker (2000)
64. Zach Bryan Zach Bryan (2023)
65. Wilco Being There (1996)
66. The Avett Brothers I and Love and You (2009)
67. Uncle Tupelo No Depression (1990)
68. Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days (2021)
69. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise the Roof (2021)
70. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (2006)

71. The Decemberists The Crane Wife (2006)
72. Johnny Cash American III: Solitary Man (2000)
73. Joanna Newsom Have One on Me (2010)
74. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Reunions (2020)
75. Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson (aka “Me and Bobby McGee”) (1970)
76. The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)
77. The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall (1992)
78. Jason Isbell Southeastern (2013)
79. The Lumineers Cleopatra (2016)
80. Guy Clark Old No. 1 (1975)

81. Los Lobos How Will the Wolf Survive? (1984)
82. Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways (2006)
83. The Decemberists Picaresque (2005)
84. The Flying Burrito Brothers Burrito Deluxe (1970)
85. Dillard & Clark The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (1969)
86. Ry Cooder Paradise and Lunch (1974)
87. Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt (1969)
88. Gillian Welch The Harrow and the Harvest (2011)
89. John Hiatt Slow Turning (1988)
90. Bonnie “Prince” Billy I See a Darkness (1999)

91. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Weathervanes (2023)
92. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals Cold Roses (2005)
93. Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
94. Mount Eerie A Crow Looked at Me (2017)
95. Rhiannon Giddens Freedom Highway (2017)
96. Iris DeMent Infamous Angel (1992)
97. Gene Clark White Light (1971)
98. Neko Case Blacklisted (2002)
99. Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
100. Calexico Feast of Wire (2003)

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First posted 3/22/2024; last updated 11/1/2025.

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Friday, March 22, 2024

The Top 60 Folk/Folk Rock Albums of All Time

Folk/Folk Rock:

The Top 60 Albums

Call it folk, folk-rock, roots music, country rock, or whatever else floats your fancy. Music typically driven by acoustic instruments or which harkens back to musical forms of a century ago has played a large role in shaping popular music and then responding to popular music trends. The DMDB aggregated more than 30 lists and then took those albums from 3 or more lists and ranked them according to overall DMDB points.

This has since been divided into two lists. This one focuses on folk and folk rock, roughly music from the 1930s through the 1980s. A second list has been been dedicated to what I’m calling “New Americana.” Like folk and folk rock, this is music which is roots-based, but tends to have a more modern spin as it is largely comprised of albums from the 21st century with representation of the ‘80s and ‘90s as well. In addition to Americana, this music is also referred to as indie folk and alt-country.

Make sure you also check out the DMDB list of top country albums as there is a lot ocross-polination between country, folk, and Americana. I’ve created three separate lists for these genres and allowed an album to only show up on one of the three lists. Check out those and other best-of-genre/category lists here.

1. Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
2. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)
3. Carole King Tapestry (1971)
4. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
5. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
6. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968)
7. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971)
8. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970)
9. Neil Young Harvest (1972)
10. Love Forever Changes (1967)

11. The Band The Band (1969)
12. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu (1970)
13. Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings (1936-37)
14. Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
15. Van Morrison Moondance (1970)
16. The Band Music from Big Pink (1968)
17. George Harrison All Things Must Pass (1970)
18. Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
19. Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman (1988)
20. Grateful Dead American Beauty (1970)

21. Bob Dylan The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
22. Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)
23. Nick Drake Five Leaves Left (1969)
24. Bruce Springsteen Nebraska (1982)
25. Bob Dylan Love and Theft (2001)
26. Leonard Cohen The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
27. Simon & Garfunkel Bookends (1968)
28. Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
29. The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday (1967)
30. The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

31. Grateful Dead Workingman’s Dead (1970)
32. Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind (1997)
33. Various Artists compiled by Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music (box set, recorded 1926-32, released 1952)
34. James Taylor Sweet Baby James (1970)
35. Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding (1967)
36. Bob Dylan Modern Times (2006)
37. John Cougar Mellencamp Scarecrow (1985)
38. Nick Drake Bryter Layter (1970)
39. Fairport Convention Liege and Lief (1969)
40. Nick Drake Pink Moon (1972)

41. Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
42. Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
43. Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)
44. Simon & Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (1966)
45. Bob Dylan The Royal Albert Hall Concert (The Bootleg Series Volume 4) (live, 1966)
46. Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
47. Neil Young On the Beach (1974)
48. Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline (1969)
49. Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
50. John Prine John Prine (1972)

51. Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out the Lights (1982)
52. The Kingston Trio At Large (1959)
53. Randy Newman 12 Songs (1970)
54. Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964)
55. Indigo Girls Indigo Girls (1989)
56. Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
57. Tim Buckley Starsailor (1970)
58. Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking (1969)
59. Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020)
60. Eagles Eagles (1972)

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Friday, September 16, 2022

Top 100 Modern Folk Songs: 1980-2022

Modern Folk Songs, 1980-2022:

Top 100 Songs

Songs on this list fall under various banners including folk, folk-rock, modern folk, alt-country, and Americana. Most genre lists at Dave’s Music Database are created by aggregating best-of lists from multiple sources. In this case, it was difficult to find lists focused on modern folk. As such, this list was compiled by pulling together any acts from 1980 forward who appeared on any best-of folk or folk rock song lists and folk/Americana album lists. Those applicable songs were then listed in order of overall ranking on Dave’s Music Database.

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1. Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” (1988)
2. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2003)
3. The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
4. Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (1994)
5. Passenger “Let Her Go” (2012)
6. Suzanne Vega “Luka” (1987)
7. Tracy Chapman “Give Me One Reason” (1995)
8. Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home” (1996)
9. Mumford & Sons “I Will Wait” (2012)
10. k.d. lang “Constant Craving” (1992)

11. Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow” (2013)
12. Grateful Dead “Touch of Grey” (1987)
13. Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” (1984)
14. Indigo Girls “Closer to Fine” (1989)
15. Neil Young “Harvest Moon” (1992)
16. Jeff Buckley “Last Goodbye” (1994)
17. Tracy Chapman “Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution” (1988)
18. Mumford & Sons “Little Lion Man” (2009)
19. Ray LaMontagne “You Are the Best Thing” (2008)
20. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as The Swell Season “Falling Slowly” (2007)

21. Brandi Carlile “The Joke” (2017)
22. The Soggy Bottom Boys “Man of Constant Sorrow” (2001)
23. Bruce Springsteen “Atlantic City” (1982)
24. The Lumineers “Ophelia” (2016)
25. Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard “Pancho and Lefty” (1983)
26. Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker” (2016)
27. Shawn Colvin “I Don’t Know Why” (1992)
28. The Lumineers “Stubborn Love” (2012)
29. Mumford & Sons “Believe” (2015)
30. Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” (2015)

31. Bob Dylan “Things Have Changed” (2000)
32. Mumford & Sons “Guiding Light” (2018)
33. Bruce Cockburn “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” (1984)
34. Mumford & Sons “The Cave” (2009)
35. Beck “Lost Cause” (2002)
36. Tracy Chapman “Crossroads” (1989)
37. Indigo Girls “Galileo” (1992)
38. Tracy Chapman “Baby Can I Hold You” (1988)
39. Brandi Carlile “The Story (I Was Made for You)” (2007)
40. Loreena McKennitt “The Mummer’s Dance” (1997)

41. Kacey Musgraves “Justified” (2021)
42. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit “If We Were Vampires” (2017)
43. The Lumineers “Gloria” (2019)
44. Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos” (2017)
45. Bon Iver “Holocene” (2011)
46. Bruce Cockburn “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” (1984)
47. The Head and the Heart “All We Ever Knew” (2016)
48. Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson “Left of Center” (1986)
49. Kacey Musgraves “Rainbow” (2018)
50. Indigo Girls “Power of Two” (1994)

51. Fleet Foxes “White Winter Hymnal” (2008)
52. Bright Eyes “First Day of My Life” (2005)
53. Bruce Springsteen “The Ghost of Tom Joad” (1995)
54. The Highwomen “Crowded Table” (2019)
55. Kacey Musgraves “Space Cowboy” (2018)
56. Lucinda Williams “Righteously” (2003)
57. Bon Iver “Skinny Love” (2007)
58. Indigo Girls “Hammer and a Nail” (1990)
59. Tracy Chapman “Telling Stories (There Is Friction in the Space Between)” (2000)
60. Bruce Springsteen “Devils & Dust” (2005)

61. The Avett Brothers “Ain’t No Man” (2016)
62. Chris Stapleton “Starting Over” (2020)
63. The Head and the Heart “Missed Connection” (2019)
64. The Lumineers “Life in the City” (2019)
65. Sharon Van Etten “Seventeen” (2019)
66. Mumford & Sons “The Wolf” (2015)
67. Neko Case, k.d. lang, & Laura Veirs “Atomic Number” (2016)
68. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Please Read the Letter” (2007)
69. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” (2007)
70. Sufjan Stevens “Chicago” (2005)

71. Bob Dylan “Everything Is Broken” (1989)
72. Leonard Cohen “Everybody Knows” (1988)
73. Bruce Springsteen “We Shall Overcome” (1998)
74. Suzanne Vega “Solitude Standing” (1987)
75. Bob Dylan “Mississippi” (2001)
76. Suzanne Vega “Tom’s Diner” (1987)
77. Sturgill Simpson “In Bloom” (2016)
78. Neko Case “Hold on Hold On” (2006)
79. The Head and the Heart “Lost in My Mind” (2011)
80. Neil Young “Philadelphia” (1994)

81. Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs “Beg, Steal or Borrow” (2010)
82. Shawn Colvin “Steady On” (1989)
83. Brandi Carlile “Right on Time” (2021)
84. Tracy Chapman “All That You Have Is Your Soul” (1989)
85. Indigo Girls “Get Together” (1987)
86. Bob Dylan “Dignity” (1994)
87. Shawn Colvin “Round of Blues” (1992)
88. Shawn Colvin “Diamond in the Rough” (1989)
89. The Avett Brothers “Kick Drum Heart” (2009)
90. Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues” (2011)

91. The Lumineers “Cleopatra” (2016)
92. Mumford & Sons “Lover of the Light” (2012)
93. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen “Like I Used To” (2021)
94. The Head and the Heart “Rhythm & Blues” (2016)
95. Willie Nelson “City of New Orleans” (1984)
96. Ray LaMontagne “Strong Enough” (2020)
97. Neko Case “Last Lion of Albion” (2018)
98. Jason Isbell “24 Frames’ (2015)
99. Josh Ritter “Getting Ready to Get Down” (2015)
100. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Can’t Let Go” (2021)

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Friday, May 13, 2022

Lyle Lovett released 12th of June, his first album in ten years

12th of June

Lyle Lovett

Released: May 13, 2022

Peak: -- US, -- UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: alt-country/Americana

Tracks:

Song Title (Writers) [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. Cookin’ at the Continental [4:14]
  2. Pants Is Overrated [4:07] (4/22/22, --)
  3. Straighten Up and Fly Right [2:58]
  4. Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You [3:36]
  5. Peel Me a Grape [3:39]
  6. Her Loving Man [5:22]
  7. 12th of June [4:54] (3/21/22, --)
  8. Pig Meat Man [4:43]
  9. The Mocking Ones [3:42]
  10. Are We Dancing [2:36]
  11. On a Winter’s Morning [6:21]

Rating:

3.884 out of 5.00 (average of 5 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

For 35 years, Lyle Lovett “has been flummoxing genre purists” with “playfully engaging jazz, big band swing, western swing, folk, gospel, and blues.” PM “If he were coming up today, he’d likely be considered Americana.” WP His “musical menagerie” PM has been accompanied by “the absurdist and transgressive humor of lyrics” PM that “hewed close to the…[country] tradition or offered a playful dissonance, often doing both in the same song.” PM Add in “his oft-inscrutable deadpan and prematurely weathered visage” PM and it is quite the success story that he turned his “anti-Nashville sensibility into a viable business model,” PM “carving out a loyal niche following.” PM

12th of June, his first studio effort in a decade, offers “a little of everything in the singer-songwriter’s back catalog.” PM His previous album, 2012’s Release Me, was a contractually-obligated work for Curb Records. Since then, “he was more than happy to bide his time, stockpiling songs and waiting for the right deal to come along.” WP That deal came from Verve Records, home of jazz legends such as Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holiday.

Much of the album was recorded in Nashville in the fall of 2019, but the release was delayed because of the pandemic. For the first time in more than 35 years, he found himself home for a solid two years instead of regularly touring with his 15-piece Large Band. It allowed for “uninterrupted time with his children, taking on parenting duties with April with virtually no outside help.” WP

The ten-year gap between releases “didn’t apply any rust to Lyle Lovett and his merry band of collaborators…Lovett has polished this amalgamation of styles to a near-flawless sheen.” PM “This record will remind listeners why Lyle is a national musical treasure.” AZ He “approached the album as a vehicle to reintroduce himself and his Large Band” AMG by mirroring earlier albums like Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. “It follows its blueprint to a tee” AMG but “it works, possibly because absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder: it’s simply a pleasure to hear a new Lyle Lovett album after ten years.” AMG

Like that album, June kicks off with “a hopping instrumental jump blues opener” AMG before moving into a rollicking, fun song with “a bit of mischief -- in this case,” AMG “the gospel=flecked wry humor of Pants Is Overrated,” PM “an observation he gleaned from watching his two toddlers cavort in their diapers.” AMG The “call-and-response song structure…has echoes of ‘Church’ from 1992’s Joshua Judges Ruth and seems to be a playful parable against conforming to conventions.” PM

He then settles “into astutely chosen jazz and blues standards” AMG which he’d released before. He first released Straighten Up and Fly Right in 1996 on the Dear God soundtrack. Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Been Good to You was recorded with Matt Rollings initially and released on the soundtrack for Kissing Jessica Stein in 2001. Peel Me a Grape was first released in 1999.

The latter two have been recorded here as “sublime duets with longtime vocal sparring partner Francine Reed.” AMG “Their mesh of vocal styles is kinetic, playful, and essential the body of work here and before.” PM She decided to retire in 2022 so these recordings serve as “a tribute to a vocalist who has been an integral part of Lovett’s music through the decades.” AMG

These songs are “punctuated by plaintive Texan balladeering and the occasional clever original.” AMG “Her Loving Man embodies the deadpan seriousness with which Lovett has performed songs in the ‘traditional’ country music style of the late 1960s, but often with an unexpected twist. He sings that she (the subject of the narrator’s affection) is the ‘queen of know / K-N-O-W, I mean,’ thus upending our assumption of this being an ode to a recalcitrant lover until he spells it out for us.” PM

That song and Are We Dancing “are touching portraits of lived-in devotion that echo the bond he shares with April. (They've been together for 25 years, and married for the past five.) The Mocking Ones is a rumination on friendships and the ways that people grow apart over time.” WP There’s even “a love song to the simple pleasures of bacon (Pig Meat Man)” PM inspired by how much his son loves eating it. WP Overall, the album “reveals…subtle nods to shifting times, which is enough to make this a nourishing experience in addition to an outright good time.” AMG

“The emotional heart of this new album is” PM “the nakedly sincere title track,” AMG 12th of June, which “explores notions of fatherhood and tradition.” WP It refers to the day in 2017 when, just shy of the age of 60, Lovett became a first-time father. He says, “I’m so grateful to have had this experience at all…I always imagined having children…But I had absolutely no idea how much I would enjoy it.” WP He says of his kids, “These are the two most interesting people I’ve ever met.” WP

“This tender ballad opens with a gentle acoustic guitar in conversation with a rippling brook of piano notes.” PM “The song accounts for the beautiful fragility of this life,” PM reflecting on fatherhood and serving up images of “covered dish reunions where a Texas creek runs through a family cemetery, and the invoked voices of the departed who watch over us.” PM

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Sunday, March 21, 2021

David Baerwald Hellbound Train, Hard Times, Reckless Boy (2016-2018)

Hellbound Train/Hard Times/Reckless Boy

David Baerwald

Released: 2016-2018

Available on Amazon: March 21, 2021

Peak: --

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: Americana

Tracks (Hellbound Train (2016):

Song Title [time]

  1. Hellbound Train [3:48]
  2. Hi Ho Nobody’s Home [1:52]
  3. John Henry [2:38]
  4. Wayfaring Stranger [4:10]
  5. Omie Wise [3:30]

Tracks (Hard Times (2017):

Song Title [time]

  1. Down in the Willow Garden [3:24]
  2. Deep Ellum Blues [2:53]
  3. Hard Times [3:49]
  4. Banks of the Ohio [3:27]
  5. John Hardy [3:05]
  6. Long Journey Home [2:44]
  7. Pretty Polly [3:42]
  8. Drifting Too Far from the Shore [3:55]

Tracks (Reckless Boy (2018):

Song Title [time]

  1. Devil’s Train [2:18]
  2. Black Water Blues [3:02]
  3. Black Highway Blue [2:18]
  4. Time Is a Hunter [3:23]
  5. Reckless Boy [3:19]
  6. Vile and Blasphemous [3:04]
  7. Darkness Night [3:21]
  8. I’ll Die That Day [3:44]

About the Albums:

After releasing A Fine Mess in 1999, Baerwald went on a long hiatus from releasing a proper album. Here Comes the New Folk Underground dropped in 2002, but was really an abbreviated version of A Fine Mess with three new songs. In 2004, he did release some new material on the Around the Bend soundtrack, but that wasn’t exclusively his work.

In 2016, he dropped the surprise EP Hellbound Train through the A-Tone Recordings label. “All of the tracks on this album are traditional compositions with arrangements by David and…Dr. Steven Trip.” DB1 The title cut was previously featured on A Fine Mess and Here Comes the New Folk Underground, but this version is “much slower and atmospheric.” DB1

Another EP followed in 2017. Hard Times “can almost be considered Hellbound Train part 2,” DB2 considering it traverses the same territory with Baerwald dipping his toe quite convincingly into the Americana pool. Reckless Boy, released under the name The Regulators followed, although it was a collection of originals. DB3 Tracks on the latter are credited ot Baerwald, Dr. Steven Trip, and George Doering, who is “a popular session musician and a member of the bluegrass band, the Brombies.” DB3

This gave Baerwald three EPs in three years after a dozen years of studio inactivity. Collectively, the three essentially serve as a new Baerwald album, although there’s no evidence that it will be released as such. Hellbound Train and Reckless Boy are both available on Spotify and Amazon, however.

All three of these EPs are available through the Extreme Music website (links below), which is “a clearing house for music available to purchase/license for movies, TV, and the web.” DB1

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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

50 years ago: The Band released “The Weight”

The Weight

The Band

Writer(s): Robbie Robertson (see lyrics here)

Released: August 8, 1968

First Charted: August 18, 1968

Peak: 63 US, 59 CB, 46 HR, 2 CL, 21 UK, 36 CN, 2 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 74.62 video, -- streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

The Band started out as the backing band for Ronnie Hawkins before forming as their own entity in 1967. Comprised of four Canadians and the Arkansas-born Levon Helm, they came to exemplify the form of folk-rock which became known as Americana. Their debut album, Music from Big Pink, included the single “The Weight.” While the song peaked at a meager #63 on the Billboard Hot 100, it gained considerable airplay over the years on album-rock stations and has become their “best-known and most enduring recording.” AMG

“The Weight” is a true showcase for The Band’s collective talents. As the band’s chief songwriter, Robbie Robertson weighs in with his “acutely studied Dylanisms.” DM The song opens “with stately guitar and drum beats that lock in with the dead certainty of a firing squad, adding elegiac honky-tonk paino chords from [Richard] Manuel, crowned by Helm’s singing on the verse, [Rick] Danko’s vocal on the bridge, and harmonies tossed around like a live grenade.” DM The song “is as fine an example of rock and roll record-making as existed in the year of its birth and it has dated not a whit.” DM

The “winding, impressionistic story song [is] cut from the rural traditions of roots music – folk, country, and gospel – but re-imagined from a distinctly postmodern vantage point.” AMG It “significantly influenced American popular music,” WK something apparent as early as 1969 thanks to three covers by Aretha Franklin, Jackie DeShannon, and the Supremes with the Temptations which charted higher than the original. The song has since been covered by numerous artists including the Allman Brothers Band, the Black Crowes, Garth Brooks, the Zac Brown Band, Eric Church, Joe Cocker, John Denver, Grateful Dead, Hanson, Waylon Jennings, Mumford & Sons, Panic! At the Disco, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Stapleton, Dionne Warwick, and Weezer.

Robbie Robertson wrote “the laid back country-gospel parable” SS from the first-person perspective of a Bible Belt American Southerner visiting the town of Nazareth, Pennyslvania, and checking in with some of his friend Fanny’s strange friends there. SF Levon Helm, who sang lead on the song, said, “The song was full of our favorite characters.” DT Robertson said the song was inspired by Luis Buñuel, a Spanish filmmaker, known for surreal imagery and criticism of organized religion. WK

PBS described it as “a masterpiece of Biblical allusions, enigmatic lines and iconic characters” and called it “an essential part of the American songbook.” WK “The literal meaning of the song is elusive, however.” TC The song’s title “appears to concern the mounting burdens and demands of society which no one individual can reasonably shoulder.” AMG

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Sunday, July 1, 2018

Today in Music (1968): The Band released Music from Big Pink

Music from Big Pink

The Band

Released: July 1, 1968

Peak: 30 US, -- UK, 18 CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US

Genre: folk rock/Americana

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to charts.

  1. Tears of Rage (37 CL)
  2. To Kingdom Come
  3. In a Station
  4. Caledonia Mission
  5. The Weight (8/8/68, 63 BB, 59 CB, 28 GR, 46 HR, 2 CL, 21 UK, 36 CN, 2 DF)
  6. We Can Talk
  7. Long Black Veil (39 CL)
  8. Chest Fever (13 CL)
  9. Lonesome Suzie
  10. This Wheel’s on Fire (25 CL)
  11. I Shall Be Released (32 CL, 20 DF)

Total Running Time: 42:22

The Players:

  • Rick Danko (bass, vocals)
  • Levon Helm (drums, vocals)
  • Garth Hudson (organ)
  • Richard Manuel (piano, vocals)
  • Robbie Robertson (guitar)

Rating:

4.450 out of 5.00 (average of 26 ratings)

Awards:

(Click on award to learn more).

Before Their Debut

The musicians who comprised The Band originally came together in 1958 as the Hawks, the backing band for Canadian rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. By the mid-‘60s, they gained an even higher profile image supporting Bob Dylan in the mid-‘60s when he went electric. “Their collaborations with the folk king made the Hawks more adaptable during their live sets and gave them something of a jam-band feel.” CS

When Dylan was laid up after a motorcycle accident, the Band joined him at his retreat in Woodstock, New York – what became known as “Big Pink.” They recorded what became known as The Basement Tapes in 1967, although they weren’t publicly released until after The Band became a known entity. Their efforts also resulted in The Band’s debut album, Music from Big Pink.

The Sound of the First Album

They were rumoured to have recorded Big Pink live in the studio in just a couple of weeks. The music “certainly sounds as organic as that.” PM The music sounded like “a loose jam session, the arrangements giving alternating emphases to different instruments, while the lead and harmony vocals passed back and forth as if the singers were making up their blend on the spot.” AM “There are no stage hogs; everyone stands out.” PM

They “delved deeply into he American soil for their sound and themes, using organ, fiddles, and mandolins in place of effects-laden electric guitars.” RD Their sound was a merging of “their varying interests in folk, R&B, jazz, country and soul.” PM They didn’t “fit in with the ‘60s and ‘70s rock scenes…The Band remained firmly rooted in tradition” CQ singing about “family, faith, and rural life” AM “through a lens of mountainous, archaic Americana, spinning yarns about courageous settlers and the Civil War.” CQ

It “detonated in the middle of the psychedelic era,” RD coming off “as a shockingly divergent musical statement only a year after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, when rock had moved toward ornate productions.” AM The album “still sounds bacingly fresh more than three decades after it was recorded.” RD

The Members

“With their passionate, free-flowing delivery and vocal harmonies that were as powerful and ragged as Crosby, Stills and Nash’s…the Band redfined how a rock group worked together – neither as a single, melodious unit nor as a backup band supporting a single frontman, but as five talented individuals bouncing musical ideas off each other like a heavily amplified porch quintet.” CS

Richard Manuel's “aching pipes drench the entire album in earnest, alcoholic tears, especially on closer ‘I Shall Be Released.’” CQ His “haunting, lonely voice” AM infuses the album with “much of its frightening aspect, even when he wasn't singing lead (especially his moans in ‘The Weight’).” AM

“Rick Danko’s and Levon Helm’s rough-hewn styles reinforced the songs’ rustic fervor. The dominant instrument was Garth Hudson's organ, which could be icy and majestic, his other keyboards introducing novel sounds.” AM “Robbie Robertson's unusual guitar work further destabilized the sound” AM and got him “recognized as one of the most soulful guitarists of his day.” CS

The Influence

The Band spearheaded “a movement more toward roots styles and country elements in rock. Over time, Music from Big Pink came to be regarded as a watershed work in the history of rock, one that introduced new tones and approaches to the constantly evolving genre.” AM There’s a certain irony that the form of music now referred to as Americana owes a debt to a “four Canadians and a an Arkansas farm boy.” RD It has been suggested, though, that “as outsiders, the group’s members were in a unique position to appreciate American folklore and mythology.” CS

“Following their lead were folks like George Harrison and Eric Clapton, envious that this Canadian-American group were as authentic as it gets and trying desperately to ride their collective coattails toward a rootsier sound. But as Big Pink lays out, these boys had this sound in their bloodstream, in their bones, in their muscle memory. It all came natural and sounded as perfect and lived-in as could be.” PM

The Songs

Here are thoughts on some of the individual songs from the album.

The album’s best-known song was The Weight, a song which “considered various acts of kindness that went wrong” AM and featured “the stacked harmonies and traded leads of Levon Helm and Rick Danko.” PM

“Dylan features prominently, penning the classic plea I Shall Be Released, a song which “expressed the hopeless hope of a prisoner who determined his salvation by viewing the world in reverse (‘I see my light coming shining from the west unto the east,’ he sang, as if the earth were spinning in the opposite direction from its usual course).” AM

Dylan also collaborated with Manuel on “the wrenching opening track, Tears of Rage,” RD “a lament by parents about a rebellious child.” AM Bassist Rick Danko and Dylan worked together on “the vengeful This Wheel’s on Fire.” RD

Chest Fever featured “Garth Hudson’s Captain Nemo organ solo.” PM “Robertson’s genius [is] already fully evident on Caledonia Mission.” RD

Notes:

The 2000 CD reissue “included nine bonus tracks…Among the new material, there were alternate takes of ‘Tears of Rage’ and ‘Lonesome Suzie’ (the former only marginally different, the latter a completely different approach to the song); versions of four songs previously released on the 1975 album The Basement Tapes (‘Yazoo Street Scandal,’ ‘Katie’s Been Gone,’ ‘Long Distance Operator,’ and ‘Orange Juice Blues [Blues for Breakfast]’); covers of country and blues material (‘If I Lose,’ ‘Key to the Highway’); and one original song probably from the group's initial demo session (‘Ferdinand the Imposter’).” AM

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