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The Band - The Band #21

£395.00

Known to fans and collectors alike as "The Brown Album", The Band's second studio release arrived on September 22, 1969, via Capitol Records - less an album than a sepia-toned scrapbook of mythic Americana.

In the liner notes to the 2000 reissue, music historian Rob Bowman frames it as a kind of concept album, though not in the strict sense. Rather, these songs feel like dispatches from a half-remembered past: dusty rail towns, failing harvests, Civil War ghosts, and bar room philosophers.

Tracks like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” hum with the weight of history, while “Jawbone,” with its off-kilter 6/4 rhythm, teeters like a drunk trying to dance and testify at the same time.

The Band wasn't just chronicling a bygone America - they were conjuring it.

Known to fans and collectors alike as "The Brown Album", The Band's second studio release arrived on September 22, 1969, via Capitol Records - less an album than a sepia-toned scrapbook of mythic Americana.

In the liner notes to the 2000 reissue, music historian Rob Bowman frames it as a kind of concept album, though not in the strict sense. Rather, these songs feel like dispatches from a half-remembered past: dusty rail towns, failing harvests, Civil War ghosts, and bar room philosophers.

Tracks like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” hum with the weight of history, while “Jawbone,” with its off-kilter 6/4 rhythm, teeters like a drunk trying to dance and testify at the same time.

The Band wasn't just chronicling a bygone America - they were conjuring it.

SIDE A 

  • "Across the Great Divide" - 2:53

  • "Rag Mama Rag"  - 3:04

  • "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - 3:33

  • "When You Awake" (Manuel, Robertson) - 3:13

  • "Up on Cripple Creek" - 4:34

  • "Whispering Pines" (Manuel, Robertson) - 3:58

SIDE B 

  • "Jemima Surrender"  (Helm, Robertson) - 3:31

  • "Rockin' Chair" - 3:43

  • "Look Out Cleveland" -  3:09

  • "Jawbone" (Manuel, Robertson) - 4:20

  • "The Unfaithful Servant" - 4:17

  • "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" - 3:39

 

MUSICIANS

  • Rick Danko – bass guitar, fiddle, trombone, vocals

  • Levon Helm – drums, mandolin, rhythm guitar, vocals

  • Garth Hudson – organ, clavinet, piano, accordion, melodica & more

  • Richard Manuel – piano, drums, baritone saxophone, harmonica, vocals

  • Robbie Robertson – electric and acoustic guitars

 

RECORDED TO TAPE

  • April 1966 – November 1966

  • Pool house in Holywood Hills - California, The Hit Factory - New York City

Label: Capitol
Production: John Simon

 

BOOKLET CONTENT

Containing our traditional collection of all analog print treasures and memorabilia. 



*The total circulation of this Mastercut release is strictly limited to a maximum total of 999 records.
As of today, the following different editions have been released:
Premier Cut: 01-99

Due to the fact that MASTERCUTS are not stock items but cut piece by piece in real time by a small team in Vienna, we kindly ask for your understanding that based on the overwhelming global demand for these editions production, assembly and delivery of your very personal MASTERCUT treasures can currently take up to 4 weeks.

Number Of Discs: 1

Speed:33RPM

Variant: Archival Tape Edition No. 21

Type: Acetate lacquer cut direct from tape, can be played on a normal turntable