Live at Watkins Glen

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Live at Watkins Glen
Live at Watkins Glen (The Band album - cover art).jpg
Live album by
ReleasedApril 4, 1995
RecordedAugust 17, 1969 – July 28, 1973
GenreRock
Length44:36
LabelCapitol
ProducerThe Band
The Band chronology
Across the Great Divide
(1994)
Live at Watkins Glen
(1995)
High on the Hog
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2/5 stars[1]

Live at Watkins Glen is a 1995 album by the Band, presented by Capitol Records as a live album from the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen rock festival held outside Watkins Glen, New York, on July 28, 1973 in front of 600,000 people. Garth Hudson's organ solo, "Too Wet to Work", and the plainly titled "Jam" come from the actual Watkins Glen concert, as does the introduction of the group by Bill Graham. The former track appears on the out-of-print 1994 box set Across The Great Divide, but the latter track is only present on the Watkins Glen disc. The remainder of the tracks are two studio outtakes with overdubbed crowd noise, “Back to Memphis” and “Endless Highway”, plus four tracks from the Academy of Music shows in December 1971 and "Don't Ya Tell Henry" from the Woodstock festival in 1969. The two studio outtakes are available on the 2001 re-release of Moondog Matinee, without the crowd overdubs. The Academy of Music tracks are available on the 2001 two-CD re-release of Rock of Ages as "previously unavailable" tracks.

The album was originally prepared by The Band in 1973 and was supposed to be released in 1974 under the title “Is Everybody Wet?” but its release was cancelled.[2]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Robbie Robertson unless otherwise noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Back to Memphis"Chuck Berry6:16
2."Endless Highway" 5:18
3."I Shall Be Released"Bob Dylan4:24
4."Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever"Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder3:25
5."Too Wet to Work"Garth Hudson3:29
6."Don't Ya Tell Henry"Dylan4:01
7."The Rumor" 4:57
8."Time to Kill" 4:54
9."Jam"The Band3:02
10."Up on Cripple Creek" 4:48

References[]

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ "The Band in 1972-73" (PDF). theband.hiof.no. Retrieved 2019-02-28.

Personnel[]

The Band
Additional personnel
  • Wayne Watkins – reissue producer
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