Product Description
High Quality & Very Rare Original Japanese Pressing Of The Critically Acclaimed Debut LP By The Band! Vinyl & Cover In Top Condition! Includes Two Inserts With Lyrics In English & Japanese.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer — and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Very small surface mark on first song.
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Side 1:
Tears Of Rage
To Kingdom Come
In A Station
Caledonia Mission
The Weight
Side 2:
We Can Talk
Long Black Veil
Chest Fever
Lonesome Suzie
This Wheel’s On Fire
I Shall Be Released
AMG –
It was The Band's sound that stood out the most, Helm's propulsive drumming, Robertson's distinctive guitar fills, inventive keyboard textures of Garth Hudson, all topped by the rough, expressive singing… The Band, the group's 2nd album, was a deliberate & accomplished effort. Though a Canadian, Robbie Robertson focused on a series of American archetypes from the union worker in "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" & the retired sailor in "Rockin' Chair" to, most famously, the Confederate Civil War observer Virgil Cane in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." The album effectively mixed the kind of mournful songs that had dominated Music from Big Pink, here including "Whispering Pines" & "When You Awake", with rollicking uptempo numbers like "Rag Mama Rag" & "Up on Cripple Creek" (both sung by Levon Helm & released as singles, with "Up on Cripple Creek" making the Top 40). It was The Band's sound that stood out the most, from Helm's propulsive drumming to Robertson's distinctive guitar fills & the endlessly inventive keyboard textures of Garth Hudson, all topped by the rough, expressive singing of Manuel, Helm, & Rick Danko that mixed leads with harmonies. The arrangements were simultaneously loose & assured, giving the songs a timeless appeal.