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The Band tribute sets track list
Star-studded compilation includes covers by My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Gomez, Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, and Bruce Hornsby.
Loads of bands have cited the Band as an influence over the years, and now many of them are getting a chance to prove it on a new star-studded tribute compilation, for which the track listing was unveiled today.
The Band, 1969.
The album, dubbed Endless Highway: The Music of the Band, will hit stores January 30 on 429 Records a subsidiary of the Savoy Label Group.
It will be led by My Morning Jacket's cover of "It Makes No Difference," recorded at Band drummer Levon Helm's home studio in Woodstock, N.Y.
The compilation also features a cover of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by the Allman Brothers Band, Death Cab For Cutie's "Rocking Chair," Jack Johnson's "I Shall Be Released," Gov't Mule's "The Shape I'm In," and Gomez's "Up on Cripple Creek."
"Picking a song from their catalog was like looking at your group of close friends and deciding which one is 'the closest,'" My Morning Jacket drummer Patrick Hallahan told Billboard.com. "You find that they're all 'the closest' in their own relative way. We hold that song in the utmost reverence. It's not only one of the saddest love songs ever written, but more importantly highlights the beauty of Rick Danko. His delivery on that song is one of the first reasons I fell in love with the Band in the first place."
The track listing for Endless Highway:
Jack Johnson, "I Shall Be Released"
The Allman Brothers Band, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Death Cab for Cutie, "Rocking Chair"
My Morning Jacket, "It Makes No Difference"
Lee Ann Womack, "The Weight"
Jakob Dylan, "Whispering Pines"
Gomez, "Up On Cripple Creek"
Bruce Hornsby, "King Harvest"
Rosanne Cash, "Unfaithful Servant"
Blues Traveler, "Rag Mama Rag"
Joe Henry, "Bessie Smith"
Guster, "This Wheel's On Fire"
Widespread Panic, "Chest Fever"
John Hiatt & North Mississippi Allstars, "Ain't No More Cane"
Jackie Greene, "Look Out Cleveland"
Animal Liberation Orchestra, "Ophelia"
Steve Reynolds, "Stage Fright"
Josh Turner, "When I Paint My Masterpiece"
Government Mule, "The Shape I'm In"
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