The Band Songs : Cover Songs & Music Videos Category

  • The Laptop Sessions: “Long Black Veil” (The Band / Johnny Cash Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Thursday, June 12th, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    Welcome to another video blog in the Laptop Sessions music video series! Today, I bring you a cover song that was written in the 1950s and was covered on two separate occasions by two of my favorite artists — Johnny Cash and the Band. Cash recorded it most famously on his Folsom Prison concert and the Band included it on their 1968 album Music from Big Pink. Both are great albums, and this is a fun song. I hope you like it…

    See you next session!

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    Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 7″:

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  • The Laptop Sessions: “Stage Fright” (The Band Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Sunday, May 25th, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    I’m proud to present the first in a week-long event here at http://LaptopSessions.com entitled “Title Tracks Week”!! Each day this week, we’ll unveil a new session devoted to a song whose title is the same as the album it was on. For instance, I chose a song from the Band’s 1970 album Stage Fright called — well, you may have guessed it already — “Stage Fright.”

    This is an interesting song to me, as I’ve heard and read rumors over the years that this song was written by the Band’s Robbie Robertson in reference to Bob Dylan. If anyone would know, it would be someone like Robertson, who has played many shows with Dylan over the years, most often as his lead guitarist. (He’s particularly well-known for being the electric guitarist that powered Dylan’s sound in the mid-60s, when he first “went electric.”)

    For anyone who’s seen Dylan play on stage, it does make sense that he might suffer from a form of stage fright…

    So, without further ado, here’s the first of seven title tracks this week — even Original Wednesday this week will be a title track. I hope you’ll check back tomorrow for Jeff’s installment!

    See you next session!

    Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
    Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 7″:

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The Band Acoustic Rock Cover Songs and Free mp3 Downloads

With the mid-sixties and Bob Dylan’s rise to acoustic guitar music fame, came his transition from unplugged settings to recording new rock music with a full electric band behind him. Although he would go on to use many different players over the years, there is one band that stood out – The Band. Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist, and the boys of the Band were the first songwriters brave enough to step out on the road with Dylan and play his first electric concerts. The music reviews, particularly from fans, tore these concerts apart and trashed them. In reality, although Dylan was still making good acoustic guitar music (and even played the first half of the concert with acoustic guitar music only), he and the Band were making amazing new rock music in the second half of the concerts. Anyone willing to open up their ears and minds and listen to new music were delighted by the sounds of Dylan gone electric. This crazy ride through 1966 Europe kickstarted the Band’s career, and they were soon recording their first album, Music From Big Pink, an album which included many of their excellent songs – some of the best new rock music of their career – as well as interesting cover songs, from Dylan among others. The Laptop Sessions have already begun to draw on the Band’s catalog for material and inspiration for their acoustic cover songs.