Out Sept. 17, 2013
During the final week of 1971, The Band played four legendary concerts
at New York City's Academy Of Music, ushering in the New Year with
electrifying performances, including new horn arrangements by Allen
Toussaint and a surprise guest appearance by Bob Dylan for a New Year's
Eve encore. Select highlights from the concerts were compiled for The
Band's classic 1972 double LP, Rock Of Ages, which peaked at No. 6 on
the Billboard 200 and remains a core album in the trailblazing group's
storied Capitol Records catalog.
For the first time, all four of
the concerts' multi-track recordings have been revisited for 'Live At
The Academy Of Music 1971,' a new 4CD+DVD collection. The expansive new
collection features new stereo and 5.1 Surround mixes, including 19
previously unreleased performances and newly discovered footage of two
songs filmed by Howard Alk and Murray Lerner. 'Live At The Academy Of
Music 1971' takes a deep dive into The Band's historic shows for a
definitive document of the pioneering group's stage prowess at the apex
of their career.
Live At The Academy Of Music 1971 is presented in a
deluxe, 48-page hardbound book with previously unseen photos, a
reproduction of Rolling Stone's original Rock Of Ages review by magazine
co-founder Ralph J. Gleason, an essay by The Band's Robbie Robertson,
and appreciations of The Band and the set's recordings by Mumford &
Sons and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The collection's first two
discs feature performances of every song played over the course of the
four concerts, and the New Year's Eve soundboard mix on discs 3 and 4
puts the listener in the room for that entire legendary night: Uncut,
unedited, taken straight from the master recordings and presented in
full for the first time. The set's DVD presents the tracks from discs 1
and 2 in 5.1 Surround, plus Alk and Lerner's filmed performances of
'King Harvest (Has Surely Come)' and 'The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show.'
The
stereo mixes for the first two discs and the DVD's 5.1 Surround mix
were done by Bob Clearmountain, with the stereo mixes for discs 3 and 4
helmed by Sebastian Robertson and Jon Castelli, assisted by Ryan Nasci.
The collection was mastered by Patricia Sullivan at Bernie Grundman
Mastering. The concerts were originally recorded by Phil Ramone with
Mark Harman.
Additional Disc Information: (Disc 3) New Year's Eve
At The Academy Of Music 1971 (The Soundboard Mix)/(Disc 4) New Year's
Eve At The Academy Of Music 1971 (The Soundboard Mix)/(Disc 5) [DVD]
Live At The Academy Of Music 1971 in 5.1 Surround Sound plus archival
film clips of two previously unissued performances from December 30,
1971.
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