Jubilation

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Product Description ------------------- In 1968, The Band emerged from Woodstock, NY with Music from Big Pink, a milestone album that changed the way fans of rock & roll listened to American music. 30 years later, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson celebrate with the 10th studio album of their extraordinary career - a set of vibrant new songs performed acoustically that continue to explore The Band's unique synthesis of rock, folk, country and R&B. Guests on the album include Eric Clapton and John Hiatt. .com ---- The Band as it now stands simply cannot carry the weight it once did. Avatar Robbie Robertson has been gone since 1976, meaning he's been an ex-Band member longer than he was in the long-lived outfit. Richard Manual, in his prime the group's most versatile vocalist, died in 1987. Still, bassist-vocalist Rick Danko, drummer-vocalist Levon Helm, and master instrumentalist Garth Hudson--along with a few supplemental players--forge ahead. With Helm, who's been the back of the post-Robertson group, ailing, the Band of Jublilation is left largely in the shaky hands and voice of Danko, whose past personal problems are well-documented. (In 1997 he was given a five-year suspended sentence in Japan for heroin possession.) This 11-song collection isn't going to make anyone forget Music from Big Pink ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000088EC/%24%7B0%7D ). And yet there's a certain kind of nobility to be found in Danko's strained-but-true singing in "Book Faded Brown" and "If I Should Fall" as well as in Helm's more abraded vocals in Allen Toussaint's "A Blind Fool's Love." Eric Clapton and John Hiatt make cameo appearances here, but they don't really elevate the . In truth, Jubiliation isn't really an album about getting higher; it's about three musicians sharing a load that's wearing them down bit by bit but hasn't gotten the best of them yet. --Steven Stolder P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review ------ ...Eric Clapton's lead guitar helps out a tune, and John Hiatt proves a welcome diversion on "Bound by Love." -- Entertainment Weekly The [music] has the loosey-goosey focused but ramshackle quality of the Band's best work. Despite an occasional lapse into pretentiousness, the Band has always seemed to have an inordinate a of fun with its music. -- People See more ( javascript:void(0) )