After a mirage of an intro, “Jawbone” – one of the most underrated moments on ‘The Band’ – catches a shambolic groove .

Not much, thus far into the Band’s official discography, had hinted at the lip-busting brawn of their early work with Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan – until this.

That a group of men in their 20s, as the Band were at this moment, could say so much about the pull of old ways remains simply remarkable.

A lip-smacking, knuckle-dragging hoot, The Band’s “Jemima Surrender” won’t win any awards for cosmopolitan thinking, but it couldn’t be more fun.

The Band’s Richard Manuel doesn’t sing this as if telling the story of a man walled off by loneliness; he lives and breathes every bruising syllable.

That the Band’s “Up on Cripple Creek” was difficult to capture on tape runs counter to everything you hear on this galloping moment of sheer joy.

A triumph of narrative balance, the Band’s “When You Awake” perhaps could only work within a performance by Rick Danko.

Amy Helm, a key member of her father Levon Helm’s touring unit, discusses the emotional aftermath of his death.

Levon Helm’s delicately poignant vocal completely animates this key song from the Band – stripping bare the awful costs of these kind of conflicts.

A cross between a Memphis blues and a Storyville saloon romp, “Rag Mama Rag” showed the Band’s complete grasp of American song styles.