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Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
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Levon Helm
…And The RCO All-Stars
(ABC, 1977)
Heartbeat of the first, and best, Americana band, the drummer and sometime singer breaks out.
Dirt Farmer, Helm’s most recent solo album, was much played in the MOJO office when it was released at the end of 2007, got a four-star star review (MOJO 169), but in one of those inexplicable quirks of panel voting failed to make our Best Of The Year list. Personally, I was dumbfounded. As so often. But it was not the first time Helm had made an overlooked album. Thirty years before Dirt Farmer, he’d gathered a quorum of likeminded players (Booker T. Jones, Dr. John, Duck Dunn, Steve Cropper, Paul Butterfield among them) to breeze through 10 songs, nine covers and his own Blues So Bad, co-written with Henry Glover. From a brisk arrangement of Kokomo Arnold’s Milk Cow Boogie, something he might have played with The Hawks since time immemorial, Earl King’s Sing, Sing, Sing (Let’s Make A Better World), with co-Band veteran Garth Hudson on unmistakable accordion, and Fred Carter’s A Mood I Was In are just three of the light, rootsy delights. Other highlights: Chuck Berry’s Havana Moon, Dr. John’s Washer Woman, Paul Butterfield’s harmonica, Helm/Rebennack’s That’s My Home, but above all that distinctive Helm voice, tuneful as a tinkling bell, easy rolling as Old Man Mississippi, and his unobtrusive but exact drumming.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 24/11/2008
Further Listening
Rick Danko - Rick Danko (1977)
Robbie Robertson - Storyville (1991)
Ry Cooder - Into The Purple Valley (1972)
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