The Band, “Endless Highway” from Before the Flood (1974): Across the Great Divide
With the Band’s “Endless Highway,” there remains this profound sense of unfinished business.
With the Band’s “Endless Highway,” there remains this profound sense of unfinished business.
This Robbie Robertson collaboration with Rick Danko is comfortably like, but also thrillingly unlike, everything that came before.
Rick Danko’s voice, poignant now with aged wisdom, finds previously unknown depths on this song with the Band.
“It Makes No Difference” was a moment like few others from the Band, and Rick Danko’s greatest vehicle.
It’s utterly clear just what Robbie Robertson is lamenting on this song from the Band.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, former Band vocalist Rick Danko found renewed vigor within another collaborative experience on ‘Danko/Fjeld/Andersen.’
“Get Up Jake” initially got left off 1969’s ‘The Band,’ apparently because it sounded too much of a piece.
That this song, a legendary outtake from Bob Dylan’s ‘Infidels,’ heralded the Band’s long-hoped-for return to the studio was fitting.
Rick Danko sounds ready, finally, to pass over the threshold, to begin his journey away from the Band.
The Band’s ‘Stage Fright,’ it seems, could only have ended in one of two ways: Damnation or salvation. “The Rumor” seems to represent the latter.