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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Further adventures in crate-digging. Danko was the first member of The Band to record an album under his own name. As far as I can tell it was never released on CD in the US, and it doesn't stream. Too bad; it's pretty good. Not life changing good, but at least as good as a middling album by The Band- Cahoots, say. The other members of The Band show up on these tracks, along with,  inter alia, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Ronnie Wood and others of that ilk. Interestingly, Danko gets composing or co-composing credits on all of the songs.

 Danko, Rick - Rick Danko - Amazon.com Music

The whole solo album thing from that period is a funny thing. The other day on Sirius Radio I heard a cut from John Entwistle's Rigor Mortis Sets In. I suppose it might have been fun to have made the record, but  the decision by the label to release it has to have been a pretty clear cash grab. "The kids love The Who- let's see if they go for this." See, also, Bill Wyman's Monkey Grip. I wouldn't put Danko's set in that category, quite. He wrote some songs which are pretty okay, and the group he was in wasn't going to record them, so why not take a run at it?


// posted by Bill @ 9:26 AM
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