Artist: Levon Helm
Title: Ramble At The Ryman
Label: Dirt Farmer Music
Release Date: 2011
Format: MP3 @ 320 K
Levon Helm was more than just a drummer, singer, and mandolinist for The Band. He was the group’s very soul, and not just because of the loamy rural tenor made famous by songs like “The Weight.” As the only actual Southerner in a Canadian outfit that mythologized the American South, Helm shouldered the load of a nostalgic yet troubled history that was, for his compatriots, mostly a dream. You could almost hear this existential burden in his weary yet unbowed style of drumming—a little behind the beat, as if life were always moving faster than he’d like. On live disc Ramble at the Ryman, with a characteristically exuberant blend of rock, blues, country, and folk, Helm proves himself once again to be one of our most vibrant conservators of traditional Americana.
Track List:
01. Ophelia
02. Back To Memphis
03. Fannie Mae
04. Baby Scratch My Back
05. Evangeline
06. No Depression In Heaven
07. Wide River To Cross
08. Deep Elem Blues
09. Anna Lee
10. Rag Mama Rag
11. Time Out For The Blues
12. A Train Robbery
13. The Shape I'm In
14. Chest Fever
15. The Weight
Personnel:
Levon Helm - vocals, mandolin, drums
Buddy Miller - vocals, guitar
Larry Campbell - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, fiddle
Teresa Williams, John Hiatt - vocals, acoustic guitar
Sheryl Crow - vocals, autoharp
Amy Helm - vocals, mandolin, drums
Sam Bush - vocals, mandolin
Sammy Davis, Jr. - vocals, harmonica
Brian Mitchell - vocals, accordion, piano, organ
Billy Bob Thornton -vocals
Erik Lawrence , Jay Collins - saxophone
Steven Bernstein - trumpet
Clark Gayton - trombone, tuba
Tony Leone - drums
George Receli - percussion
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