The Band.
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhrN39li1M[/YOUTUBE]
Brilliant music. It pretty much sums up everything I love to hear, be it folk music, Americana, country, blues, rockabilly, rock, elements of gospel and church music, and just to put it together in one neat little package.
Acadian Driftwood, dealing with the deportation of the Acadians to Louisane, is one of the few songs that actually brought me to tears when I heard it for the first time. Up On Cripple Creek is not blues, it's not rock, it's not country; it's all of that and yet none of it. If you listen closely, there are elements of
funk music in there as well. And then there's the mysterious case of "King Harvest". Fairly little people know about the influence The Band had on rock music, Levon Helm pretty much invented a new drumming technique, Garth Hudson was the first person to ever use a wah-wah pedal on a Hohner clavinet, and Eric Clapton saw them as one of his greatest examples. The famous song "Let It Be" by The Beatles was also influenced by The Band's pure sound.
Youtube links from now on:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnlU6rPfwY&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHyovwX7JM&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]
(Especially for SFTS, Levon Helm is an Arkansas boy)
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