Moondog Matinee

Moondog Matinee
Studio album by The Band
Released October 15, 1973
Recorded March–June 1973
Studio Bearsville Sound Studios, Bearsville, NY; Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA; New York, NY
Genre Rock
Length 35:09
Label Capitol
Producer The Band
The Band chronology
Rock of Ages
(1972)Rock of Ages1972		 Moondog Matinee
(1973)		 Planet Waves
(with Bob Dylan)
(1974)Planet Waves1974
Reissue cover
Australian alternate cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert ChristgauB+[2]
Down Beat[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[3]
MusicHound5/5[4]
Rolling Stone(mixed)[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Moondog Matinee is the fifth studio album by Canadian/American rock group the Band, released in 1973. It consists entirely of cover material reflecting the group's love of R&B and blues music, with one exception in their interpretation of the theme from the film The Third Man.

In a 2002 interview, Levon Helm described the reasoning for recording an album of covers: "That was all we could do at the time. We couldn't get along—we all knew that fairness was a bunch of shit. We all knew we were getting screwed, so we couldn't sit down and create no more music. 'Up on Cripple Creek' and all that stuff was over—all that collaboration was over, and that type of song was all we could do."[7]

The original idea had been to replicate the group's setlists of the mid-'60s when they had been known as Levon and the Hawks, playing clubs throughout Canada and the US. Of the ten tracks, only one, "Share Your Love (With Me)" had been performed by the group in the mid-'60s. The rest were merely tracks the group admired, two of them, "Holy Cow" and "A Change Is Gonna Come", chronologically coming after the group's club days.

Rhapsody praised the album, calling it one of their favorite cover albums.[8]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Ain't Got No Home"Clarence "Frogman" HenryLevon Helm3:20
2."Holy Cow"Allen ToussaintRick Danko, Helm3:15
3."Share Your Love (With Me)"Deadric Malone, Alfred BraggsRichard Manuel2:50
4."Mystery Train"Junior Parker, Sam PhillipsHelm5:35
5."Third Man Theme"Anton KarasInstrumental2:43

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
6."Promised Land"Chuck BerryHelm3:00
7."The Great Pretender"Buck RamManuel3:07
8."I'm Ready"Fats Domino, Al Lewis, Sylvester BradfordHelm3:22
9."Saved"Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerManuel3:42
10."A Change Is Gonna Come"Sam CookeDanko4:15

2001 reissue bonus tracks

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Didn't It Rain (Outtake)"Traditional3:16
12."Crying Heart Blues (Outtake)"Joe Brown3:29
13."Shakin' (Outtake)"Sam Cooke3:31
14."What Am I Living For (Outtake)"Fred Jay, Art Harris5:04
15."Going Back to Memphis (Outtake)"Chuck Berry5:02
16."Endless Highway (Studio version)"Robertson5:09

Personnel

The Band
Additional personnel
Technical
  • Mark Harman – engineer
  • Jay Ranellucci – engineer
  • John Wilson – engineer
  • Edward Kasper – artwork

References

  1. ↑ link
  2. ↑ link
  3. 1 2 "The Band – Moondog Matinee CD Album". CD Universe/Muze. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds) (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 72. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  5. ↑ link
  6. ↑ Brackett, Nathan, with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 42. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  7. ↑ Lopate, Mitch. "He Shall Be Levon...: The Band's Levon Helm Is Rocking Harder Than Ever With The Barnburners", GRITZ magazine, Fall 2002.
  8. ↑ Rhapsody’s Favorite Covers Albums retrieved 01-08-10 Archived 2010-07-31 at the Wayback Machine..
  9. ↑ http://theband.hiof.no/albums/moondog_matinee.html
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