Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

This also over in The Last Waltz thread. Ringo looks and sounds amazing for a guy pushing 80!

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This is a great version of this song. We all should look so good pushing 80. Here's another cover of The Weight featuring Marty Stuart and The Staple Singers from the Rhythm Country and Blues album which is a great mix of country/soul/r&b singers joining in on classic pop/rock/r&b.

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"Gimme Shelter" from the same project and involving some of the same musicians:

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THE LAST WALTZ NASHVILLE
Saturday, November 23
Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN

We are thrilled to announce The Last Waltz Nashville: An All-Star Celebration of the Band’s Historic Farewell Concert to be held on Saturday, November 23 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN.

This inaugural holiday event captures the excitement of The Band’s historic 1976 Thanksgiving concert with some of music’s biggest stars including Darius Rucker, Michael McDonald, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Nathaniel Rateliff, Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson, Margo Price, Don Was, John Medeski, Cyril Neville, Dave Malone, Bob Margolin, Terence Higgins and Mark Mullins & The Levee Horns.

This once in a lifetime concert event includes a rare, very special appearance by music icon Robbie Robertson of The Band.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 10 AM CT at [ticketmaster.com]. Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase pre-sale tickets beginning today, Tuesday, October 8 at 10 AM CT through Citi’s Private Pass program and will be available until Thursday, October 10 at 10 PM CT] VIP packages, including great seats and exclusive event merchandise, will be available. The Last Waltz Nashville: An All-Star Celebration of The Band’s Historic Farewell Concert will cap off the November run of 2019’s Last Waltz Tour, currently on sale now at [thelastwaltz.com].

Blackbird Presents continues its tradition of supporting important charities, particularly during the holiday season. Thus we are excited to announce that a portion of proceeds will go directly to Farm Aid [farmaid.org], whose mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America, and Thistle Farms [thistlefarms.org], a nonprofit social enterprise, based in Nashville, TN, dedicated to helping women survivors recover and heal from trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. In addition to supporting these organizations, Blackbird Presents will organize a donation drive to help support Second Harvest [secondharvestmidtn.org], whose mission is to feed hungry people and work to solve hunger issues in Middle Tennessee.

Over forty years ago, The Band performed their final concert to a sold-out crowd with a who’s who of Rock ‘n’ Roll royalty in attendance. “As far as farewells go, this one was major,” stated Rolling Stone Magazine in a 2016 expose about the famed concert. The evening culminated with “Don’t Do It,” The Band’s cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Baby Don’t You Do It.” After the last note, Robbie Robertson, The Bands’ lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member, said “Goodnight. Goodbye.” walking off stage, forever immortalizing this epic event.

“It is such an honor that the musical celebration of The Last Waltz and The Band carries on today. Blackbird Presents and this extraordinary lineup of talent makes me proud to be a part of this ongoing and wonderful tradition,” says Robbie Robertson.

“These songs are so deeply intrenched in our hearts that they have become a part of who we are as humans,” said Keith Wortman, Founder of Blackbird Presents. “I am honored to present this show, with these artists, in our beloved Nashville and I’m especially proud to support Farm Aid, Thistle Farms and Second Harvest during this holiday season.”

The Last Waltz Tour: An All-Star Celebration of The Band’s Historic Farewell Concert is an extension of Blackbird Present’s November 2019 Last Waltz Tour and the acclaimed 2016 two-night, sold-out concert event The Last Waltz New Orleans and 2017’s The Last Waltz 40th Anniversary Tour which was praised by audiences and critics across the country. “You soon knew that The Band’s legacy would be well feted. Earplugs were required — for the crowd, not the band,” wrote the Huffington Post in its review of the show at the Orpheum in Boston, Massachusetts. “The last 30 minutes of The Last Waltz @SaengerNOLA was the best thing I’ve heard @jazzfest,” said Keith Spera, music critic, The New Orleans Advocate.

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Over forty years ago, The Band performed their final concert to a sold-out crowd with a who’s who of Rock ‘n’ Roll royalty in attendance. “As far as farewells go, this one was major,” stated Rolling Stone Magazine in a 2016 expose about the famed concert. The evening culminated with “Don’t Do It,” The Band’s cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Baby Don’t You Do It.” After the last note, Robbie Robertson, The Bands’ lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member, said “Goodnight. Goodbye.” walking off stage, forever immortalizing this epic event.

What's swept under the rug is the fact that The Last Waltz concert WAS NOT the last live performance by the original five members of The Band.

About a year later at a Rick Danko solo show at The Roxy they all got onstage for an extended encore and happily performed some of their songs.


But another year or so after that, when The Last Waltz film came out it was sold on the story of it being their very last show. Now Robertson was more concerned about creating this legend (and becoming a film star) and therefore, no more reunited Band performances for him after that.


While it's a great line-up of musicians, I think that film just takes itself way too seriously. After viewing it, I just wanted to hear something by Jan and Dean.


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Warrren Haynes almost makes it worth it.

An all-star lineup captures the enduring spirit of ’The Last Waltz’

By Stuart Munro
November 11, 2019

There are few phenomena in the rock world stranger than the tribute band, an enterprise in which the parties involved are dedicated to quashing their own personalities and creativity in order to “become” another, iconic act.

The Last Waltz Tour 2019, which came to the Orpheum Theatre Sunday evening, was not that. It wasn’t a carbon-copy replication of an artist, but an homage to an event: the famous farewell concert performance by the Band 43 years ago on Thanksgiving Day 1976, an event whose fame was amplified by the triple LP and the Martin Scorsese film that followed.

Call it, then, a third cousin to the tribute act. Some of the trappings of the original concert were there, including a stage set that evoked its predecessor, complete with three chandeliers hanging overhead (no turkey dinner for attendees, though). The show opened and closed with the same songs, “Up on Cripple Creek” and “Don’t Do It” (the last song the original incarnation of the Band ever performed). And there were “special guests” in the form of Cyril Neville, Dave Malone, and Bob Margolin, to represent the multitude — Ronnie Hawkins, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, to name some of them — who joined the Band onstage four decades ago.

It wasn’t a song-by-song reiteration of the 1976 performance, however; that would have required adding at least a couple more hours to the three hours of music the audience heard on Sunday. Rather, it was a salute to the spirit of ’76, played by an all-star band that had the chops to do it: Warren Haynes, Lukas Nelson, and Jamey Johnson playing guitar and sharing vocal duties, John Medeski on keys, Don Was on bass, and Terence Higgins on drums, joined for most of the evening by an absolutely killer horn section, the Levee Horns.

Not surprisingly, Band songs played more-or-less the way the Band played ‘em was the dominant motif of the affair, from (of course) “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Stage Fright,” and “Life Is a Carnival,” to a rumbling “Chest Fever” (with the song’s famous mad-scientist organ intro echoed by Medeski) that led off the second set and an emotive “I Shall Be Released” that ended it. This band, like the Band, boasted three lead singers, with Haynes, Nelson, and Johnson trading off on some, Johnson standing in for Levon Helm on such fare as “Cripple Creek” and “Dixie” and Nelson’s reedy tenor taking the lead on “The Shape I’m In,” “King Harvest (Has Surely Come),” and others.

Songs played by that Thanksgiving Day guest roster received due recognition as well, via a suitably rollicking version of Van Morrison’s “Caravan” and a “Helpless” that saw Lukas Nelson channeling Neil Young’s quaver. But Sunday’s show also went off-script at times, mainly on its recapitulations of some of the other selections that the guest artists joined the Band to play. Sunday night, Cyril Neville of the Neville Brothers and Dave Malone of the Radiators turned Ronnie Hawkins’s relatively straightforward version of Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love” into an eerie, swampy slowdown, and went New Orleans on the ’50s chestnut “Mystery Train.” And after playing Muddy Waters’s “Mannish Boy,” Bob Margolin — who, since he was on the Winterland Ballroom stage playing that song as a member of Waters’s band, constituted a direct link to the 1976 show — led a fine version of Eric Clapton’s “Further On Up the Road” that leaned bluesy. Those performances added a few wrinkles to an otherwise faithful, and joyful, re-creation of what the Band wrought.

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Here are some video clips I shot at the Last Waltz Nashville.

Robbie was terrific. I waited a lifetime to hear him1

Rateliff was incredible on "Caravan".





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Thank you for your videos!
Wish I was there!

Nice videos, thank you.

Well thats awesome. See, I just wish he strapped on the guitar and played Band songs more often. He's still so good.

I agree, Robbie is still good and I really enjoyed the event. Couldn't help but thnk i have been waiting a lifetime to hear it!

Thanks, Chrism. Great job.

Went to our local production here in Dayton, Ohio last night. It’s a great show every year with all local musicians, performed at the Dayton Art Institute.

"Take all the pain...It's yours anyway"

I would love to see Robbie play. I did get to meet him once, very cool guy. Clearly underrated guitar player.

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