The Band - Northern Lights-Southern Cross (2001)

Track Listing
1. Forbidden Fruit
2. Hobo Jungle
3. Ophelia
4. Acadian Driftwood
5. Ring Your Bell
6. It Makes No Difference
7. Jupiter Hollow
8. Rags and Bones
9. Twilight
10. Christmas Must Be Tonight

Details
Number of CDs:	1
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
EAN:	0724352539420

Album Notes
The Band: Robbie Robertson (vocals, guitar); Richard Manuel (vocals, piano, organ, Clavinet); Rick Danko (vocals, bass); Levon Helm (vocals, drums); Garth Hudson (soprano saxophone, woodwinds, piccolo, accordion, organ, synthesizer, brass).Engineers include: Ed Anderson, Nat Jeffrey.Recorded at Shangri-La Studio, Zuma Beach, California. Originally released on Capitol.Digitally remastered by Larry Walsh (Capitol Recording Studios).When this album was released in 1975 it was The Band's first album of new material in four years. Though the intervening period had brought forth the brilliant ROCK OF AGES live album and an exuberant set of covers, MOONDOG MATINEE, nay-sayers feared The Band were buying time and that their creative well had perhaps run dry. NORTHERN LIGHTS, SOUTHERN CROSS was greeted as a triumph and a return to form after the less focused CAHOOTS. With only eight songs, they let the mood of each find its true and proper length. From the sly "Ophelia" to the evocative "Acadian Driftwood," the songs embrace character and a sense of place in the best possible ways. "It Makes No Difference" shows their perfect sense of knowing which of their three fine singers to use for each type of song. And the playing is, as always, exemplary.