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Live on Breeze Hill

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Released
  
September 14, 1999

Length
  
56:23

Artist
  
Rick Danko

Producer
  
Rick Danko

Recorded
  
May 23, 1998

Label
  
Woodstock/Breeze Hill

Release date
  
14 September 1999

Genres
  
Folk rock, Country rock

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Live on Breeze Hill (1999)
  
Times Like These (2000)

Similar
  
Rick Danko albums, Other albums

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Live on Breeze Hill was The Band bassist Rick Danko's third solo album, and the last released before his death in December 1999. It was credited to the "Rick Danko Band": Rick Danko, Garth Hudson & Aaron Hurwitz. Focusing on an intimate show with Danko fronting a nine-piece group featuring three fellow members of The Band as well as auxiliary member Aaron Hurwitz, the album features a mostly predictable selection of live numbers from the glory days of The Band, with only "Crazy Mama" (a late period Band track), "Blaze of Glory" (a track Danko did with Danko/Fjeld/Andersen) and "Next Time You See Me" (the obligatory track featuring Hurwitz on lead vocal) coming from Danko's post-Band era.

Contents

"Sip The Wine", issued on Danko's 1977 debut, opens the album, coming not from the concert which makes up the rest of the album, but rather from the studio, an update that showed just how much the last twenty-some years had done to Danko.

Issued jointly by Woodstock Records and Breeze Hill Records, it was later made available as part of a two-disc set from Japan's Dreamsville Records, paired with Danko's posthumous Times Like These, featuring two additional tracks, an otherwise unavailable studio version of "Blind Willie McTell" and a radio edit of the opening "Sip the Wine".

Track listing

  1. "Sip the Wine" (Rick Danko) – 5:23
  2. "Twilight" (J. R. Robertson, R. Danko) – 5:16
  3. "Crazy Mama" (J. J. Cale) – 5:59
  4. "Stage Fright" (J. R. Robertson) – 4:55
  5. "Ophelia" (J. R. Robertson) – 3:51
  6. "Blaze of Glory" (Larry Keith, Danny Morrison, Johnny Slate) – 4:14
  7. "Next Time You See Me" (Earl Forest, Bill Harvey) – 4:51
  8. "Caledonia Mission" (J. R. Robertson) – 3:41
  9. "The Shape I'm In" (J. R. Robertson) – 4:21
  10. "Chest Fever" (J. R. Robertson) – 6:41
  11. "It Makes No Difference" (J. R. Robertson) – 6:12
  12. "Outro" -1:01

Personnel

  • Rick Danko – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Garth Hudson – keyboards, organ, piano, soprano & alto saxophones, accordion
  • Aaron "Professor Louie" Hurwitz – piano, Hammond organ, accordion, vocals
  • Jim Weider: Guitars
  • Roger Mason – electric & bass guitars
  • Randy Ciarlante – drums, percussion, vocals
  • Tom "Bones" Malone – trombone, baritone sax
  • Lenny Pickett – tenor sax, clarinet
  • Jim Hynes – trumpet

    • Songs

    1Sip the Wine5:18
    2Twilight5:16
    3Crazy Mama5:59

    References

    Live on Breeze Hill Wikipedia
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