Jericho (album)
{{ Album infobox |
Name = Jericho |
Type =
Album | Artist =
The Band |
Cover = JerichoCover.jpg |
Background = Orange |
Released =
November 2,
1993 |
Recorded = June 1985 - Early 1993 |
Genre =
Rock |
Length = 56:53 |
Label =
Rhino | Producer =
John Simon,
Aaron Hurwitz | Reviews =
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AMG link | Last album =
The Last Waltz (album) (
1978) | This album =
Jericho (
1993) | Next album =
High On The Hog (
1996) |
Jericho was the tenth long player by
Canadian-
American rockers
The Band, and the first to feature the latter-day configuration of the group. Coming a full seventeen years after their "farewell concert", it was their first release for the
Rhino subsidiary
Pyramid Records. Joining original members
Levon Helm (drums/mandolin/guitar/vocal),
Rick Danko (bass/guitar/vocal) and
Garth Hudson (
organ/keyboards/horns) were
Jim Weider (who had played guitar for the group from the time of their
1983 reformation),
Randy Ciarlante (who had joined on drums in
1990) and
Richard Bell (who had joined as keyboardist in
1991). In addition to this sextet, there are an additional fourteen musicians. Having such a large amount of guests would be commonplace on the latter-day group's albums.
Without
Robbie Robertson around as lyricist, the group had to rely on several outside sources to supplement their four original tracks. Among those covered were
Bob Dylan,
Bruce Springsteen,
Muddy Waters,
Willie Dixon and folksinger
Artie Traum. Despite the dearth of original material, the result was perhaps the group's finest hour since
1975's
Northern Lights - Southern Cross.
#Remedy (Linden-Weider)#Blind Willie McTell (Dylan)#The Caves Of Jericho (Bell-Helm-Simon)#Atlantic City (Springsteen)#Too Soon Gone (Shear-Szelest)#Country Boy (Barer-Brooks)#Move To Japan (Flood-Helm-Simon-Szelest-Weider)#Amazon (River of Dreams) (Traum)#Stuff You Gotta Watch (Morganfield)#The Same Thing (Dixon)#Shine A Light (Grebb-Moore)#Blues Stay Away From Me (Delmore-Delmore-Glover-Ranney)
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Rick Danko:
bass,
guitar and
vocal*
Levon Helm:
drums,
acoustic guitar,
mandolin and
vocal*
Garth Hudson: organ,
keyboards,
synthesizers and
horns
*
Randy Ciarlante:
drums,
percussion and
backing vocal*
Richard Bell:
piano and
keyboards*
Jim Weider:
guitars and
backing vocal*
Richard Manuel:
piano and
vocal on "Country Boy"
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Stan Szelest:
electric piano on "Atlantic City" & "Blind Willie McTell"
*
Aaron Hurwitz:
producer and
engineer*
John Simon:
producer*
Chris Andersen:
engineer*
Steve Churchyard:
engineer*
Champion Jack Dupree:
piano on "Blind Willie McTell"
*
Vassar Clements:
fiddle on "The Caves Of Jericho" and "Stuff You Gotta Watch"
*
Eric Brazilian:
mandolin on "Atlantic City"
*
Rob Hyman:
keyboards on "Atlantic City"
*
Steve Jordan:
drums on "Blues Stay Away From Me"
*
Jules Shear:
harmony vocal on "Too Soon Gone"
*
Tommy Spurlock:
steel guitar on "The Caves Of Jericho"
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Artie Traum:
acoustic guitar on "Amazon (River Of Dreams)"
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Colin Linden:
backing vocal on "Amazon (River Of Dreams)"
*
Bobby Strickland:
tenor and
baritone saxophones on "Remedy" and "Stuff You Gotta Watch"
*
Dave Douglas:
trumpet on "Remedy" and "Stuff You Gotta Watch"
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Rob Leon:
bass on "Too Soon Gone", "Amazon" and "The Caves Of Jericho"
