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- Artist(s): Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel
- Summary: The re-release of The Band's fourth studio album Cahoots features a new remix and remaster by Bob Clearmountain as well as alternative tracks and a previously unreleased 1971 bootleg concert at Olympia Theatre in Paris.
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- Record Label: Virgin
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MojoDec 15, 2021The 50th-anniversary edition affirms the underrated triumph in Cahoots. [Feb 2022, p.97]
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Dec 15, 2021The live disc, a partial retrieval of a concert at the Olympia Theatre in Paris in May 1971, reminds, despite its rawness, of The Band’s unmatched on-stage brilliance and the legacy they’d already built up with the likes of Rag Mama Rag and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. ... Among the out-takes, Bessie Smith is a further indicator that their sense of American ‘roots’ was fully integrated.
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Dec 15, 2021Ultimately, completists may debate the worth of this particular anniversary offering, due not only to the aforementioned repetition but also because of the definitive live Band recordings that accompanied the recent re-releases of The Band and Stage Fright. That said, a half-century anniversary makes any Band album well worth revisiting.
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UncutDec 15, 2021Robbie Robertson has enlisted Bob Clearmountain to provide a new mix in order to give the recordings more "space" and clarity, and it especially reaps rewards on the woozy duet between Richard Manual and co-writer Van Morrison, "4% Pantomime", and Allen Toussaint's New Orleans brass arrangement on "Life Is A Carnival". [Feb 2022, p.43]
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Dec 15, 2021It’s still a fundamentally flawed album, and those flaws were symptoms of a larger ailment within the Band. Perhaps that explains the overriding nostalgia on these songs, that sense of having something beautiful and essential. Cahoots is a eulogy for a Band that was already in the past tense.