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If you're lucky enough to be at One Monument Square in Portland tonight, you can get to see The The Band Band. That's not a stammer on my part; that's the name of a tribute band that does the songs by Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson, and does them very, very well.
The Band got their chops in the early sixties, touring Canada and the US; they served as Bob Dylan's backing band on his Dylan Goes Electric tour of England, and in the late 60s they released two albums that still show up on top-100 lists today; Music From Big Pink and The Band.
Here are the The Band Band covering three songs from the latter: "Rag Mama Rag"...
"Up on Cripple Creek"...
And "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."
And as long as we're talking about the Band's covered songs, let's throw in the original Band covering a song - in this case, they're fantastic reworking of Marvin Gaye's "Don't Do It."
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