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Songs by Canada's second finest export (after Michael J. Fox) You will notice that I have not yet included their most famous song - The Weight. This is for technical reasons insofar as I am finding it hard to convincingly replicate sections where the instruments drop out. All La Glory (The...

A singer-songwriter classic from 1974 - famed for David Lindley's wonderful guitar licks plus its use in the Scorsese film Taxi Driver. My settings are: Jazz - Ballad Melodic Tempo - 80 Key of C Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne

Recorded during the Big Pink sessions but not released until 1975 on The Basement Tapes. Cass Elliot did a cover. Tempo - 90 Style - Shuffle Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) - Richard Manuel

Recorded for the Big Pink sessions before being released on The Basement Tapes 1975. Features a very attractive and rare mix of Robbie and Rick on vocals. BPM - 132 Style - Jazz Ballad Melodic Bessie Smith (The Band) - Robertson & Danko

Originally recorded with Bob Dylan during the 1967 Basement Tapes sessions, The Band"s version became a feature for Richard Manuel's haunting falsetto (and a symbol of his decline as his voice became increasingly ravaged). The chart is based on the Big Pink version with some of the bass...

Dylan walked into Big Pink one day and handed Richard Manuel the lyrics to this tune. Manuel put the music to it - a rock & roll kid trying to make sense of Dylan"s imagery. This chart is for The Band's version that opened their first album. Be sure to check out the Woodstock version online...

Blessed with a vocal as lonesome as the title, this track was apparently chosen over the equally gorgeous Katie's Been Gone when the album Music From Big Pink was sequenced. Key of C BPM 75 Style: Jazz - Ballad Even Lonesome Suzie (The Band) - Richard Manuel

Chart for another classic from the 2nd album, ending with some wonderful vocal back-and-forth between Richard Manuel and Levon Helm. Mostly taken from the official sheet music, the first 4 bars have 3 time signatures which might take a bit of rehearsal. I've tabbed the outro as 2/4 to...

I plan to spend the weekend trying to approximate the country-funk of The Weight by The Band though it is a song that certainly pushes the boundaries of iRP, involving the drums dropping out for bars, time signature changes, a syncopated bass line using 8th notes slides to get the stolid verse...

Cheers, Bob - it seems to run all right as is but I'll file your notes: I'm working on two more charts where this will come into play.

My chart for the final track from The Band's eponymous sophomore album. I feel I've reasonably approximated the feel and pausing between sections of the original - although it's generally notated in 4/4, I feel 2/4 is closer to the anxious feel of the song. BPM 110 Style: Jazz - Ballad EVen...

Hi Bob, That is strange - I did check that it imported after the same thing happened with another post. I add the code after my text, however I may have re-added the chart after adding The Band to the title..? Anyway, here's the chart: In A Station (The Band) - Richard Manuel

3rd track from the album Music From Big Pink - a quiet little gem with a soulful vocal and some spectral keyboard work by Garth Hudson. BPM 65 Style: Jazz - Ballad Melodic or Even. Key - G major In A Station (The Band) - Richard Manuel

The final classic from these much-revered pioneers of Americana. I have the changes for all parts save the solos - for lack of space, I have not replicated the complete structure. The bass moves are based on the wonderful live version from The Last Waltz. BPM 70-75 Style: Jazz - Ballad...

Re-posting: Christmas Must Be Tonight (The Band) - Robbie Robertson