Americana as a musical genre starts with this album. [4][5], Kelly Dearmore of the blog Sounds Like Nashville gave a largely negative review, criticizing the lack of country sound relative to the band's preceding albums and comparing many songs negatively to Brown's electronica side project Sir Rosevelt. One of the tracks features a collaboration with Brandi Carlile. They went on to make more albums before they busted up in the late '70s, but other than the live album Rock of Ages, with those exquisite horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint and performances without equal, nothing as memorable as those first two records ever emerged again. The words and situations are vivid and concrete (“Standing by your window in pain, a pistol in your hand”), but there’s just enough vagueness in the lyrics to force a listener to complete the picture being drawn. Thus the rating is 4 stars. The price for this version is reasonable. Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2020. Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2017. The five stars are for the music, not the edition, which I just got and haven't played. Bob—who is one of the best in the world at doing the stuff—brings up the tapes and he starts to work and do his magic on it. A lot of it’s habit. It sounds better, you hear everything better and this is an awesome recording. Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2015. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Having sent back two copies of this magnificent work I now realise my record deck will be unable to play it as it can’t play 45s. Variety of vocal keeps your interest up. What we could do, we discovered, is we can take the original tapes, put it just like it was, but with today’s technology, we can present it with less hum and hiss and things that you got from tape and everything back then, in a more pristine way. Please try again. This is the best album the Band has put out. It is Zac Brown Band's sixth US top 10 album. We hear all these names: Jake, Annabella, Virgil Caine, Jemima, W. S. Wolcott. I was hoping they would do the same for "the Band", which I thought was better than their debut. "[3], The Owl debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 106,000 album-equivalent units, including 99,000 pure album sales. Songs evocative of the South and some very memorable. The way they crafted songs told you they’d listened to every conceivable style and genre, from folk songs to rhythm and blues. Verified Purchase . I will not—I swear—be sucked into talking about the profundity of The Band’s Brown Album, which has wound up the record’s de facto title because the original bore no title on its cover, just “The Band,” and because the record jacket was… brown. I was happy when I saw my opinion echoed by Robertson in an interview in Billboard (hey, I wasn’t imagining things): “I went back to the original masters with Bob Clearmountain [the genius sound engineer credited with this remix] and we thought, ‘Let’s make this better for now for what we couldn’t do back then. There’s been more pseudo-profundity spewed about this record than any other I can think of, except maybe Sgt. Saw L. Helm at the Ryman at the end of his career (too much smoking) and in my opinion was great though not the Helm of the 60-70s. Combining elements from rock, folk, & country music, they churned out top-notch albums for a good decade during their heyday. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. They certainly didn’t sound like kids. Brown didn't interpret this lack of success as rejection. At least the cool parts). They’d soaked it all up and they took what they needed wherever they found it. It is stunningly original, brilliantly recorded and played. Good sound quality on this remastered version. Everything about the recording sounded bigger, clearer, with more clarity and space in the music. Why doesn’t it say in needs to be played at 45 on the order page? I won’t say it was like hearing a new song. If you love this album too, go grab a copy of the 50th-anniversary box set edition (new mix on vinyl and CD, along with the usual outtakes and the recording of their Woodstock performance, some promo photos, and a DVD video doc about making the record that’s a lot better than most things like this).

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