Robbie Robertson: Robbie Robertson 1987 (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023)

Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023). Robbie Robertson, a talented

guitarist, songwriter, and singer, who led the Canadian-American ensemble known as the Band to recognition in the rock music scene of the 1970s, died at the age of 80 on Wednesday. He was well known for working with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese.The gifted guitarist was born on July 5, 1943. As confirmed in a statement from his management, Robertson was suffering from a long illness and died because of it.
                        

Jaime Royal “Robbie” Robertson OC was a well-known musician from Canada. His work as the Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter, as well as his solo music projects, were his most notable

accomplishments.The Band’s contributions by Robertson were crucial in establishing the Americana music genre. Both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame inducted him as a member of the Band in recognition of his achievements. In addition, he received recognition for his individual accomplishments as well as those of the Band by being inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame.
                      

THE BAND

                  
He is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists. As a songwriter,

Robertson is credited with writing "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "Up on Cripple Creek" with the Band, and had solo hits with "Broken Arrow" and "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and many others. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters.
                 

As a film soundtrack producer and composer, Robertson is known for his collaborations with director

Martin Scorsese, which began with the rockumentary film The Last Waltz (1978), and continued through a number of dramatic films, including Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Casino (1995), The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He worked on many other soundtracks for film and television.

ROBBIE ROBERTSON - ROBBIE ROBERTSON 1987

                       

Robbie Robertson is the solo debut album by Canadian rock musician Robbie Robertson, released in 1987. First off, everyone seems to want this album to sound like something its not. People hear this is Robertson’s debut album and they think “this will sound like The Band” or “like an album from Dylan

or the early 1970’s singer songwriters.” If one gives it a fair shot they will see it for what it is: an album with plenty of great songs, made by the most distinctive producer of the 1980’s. The first half of the album shows off a wide variety of range in Robertson: from the ethereal “Fallen Angel” where Robertson hits some insane high notes; the sudden shift changes in “Showdown at Big Sky”; “Broken Arrow” is a folk song of deep introspection, and the way Robertson delivers it moves the soul; “Sweet Fire of Love” cuts loose in a rocking way that is bombastic and detailed. These songs alone convey a mix of multiple Native American styles and showcases Robertson as a diverse vocalist.
                           

BOB DYLAN & ROBBIE ROBERTSON

The second half of the album fares well too, with “Hell’s Half Acre” being another bruising rocker; “Somewhere down this Crazy River” harking back to the storytelling ways of 1950’s jazz and lounge vocalists and evoking a moody atmosphere; and “Sonny got Caught in the Moonlight” being a gripping

tale told in a folk rock style much like “Broken Arrow”. The only tracks that suffer from dated 1980’s qualities are “American Roulette” and “Testimony”, but the former is still a decent rock tune. While it is obvious that Daniel Lanios’ production takes over any album he produces (So by Peter Gabriel, Joshua Tree by U2, This is the Ice Age by Martha and the Muffins, Forth World by Jon Hassall), and that this album guests many stars and friends of the time era (U2, BoDeans), the songs themselves are Robbie’s. Also, he came before ANY of them, so I can’t fault the guy for absorbing new sounds. Personally, I feel if this sounded like The Last Waltz part 2, it would be a lame retread. But it’s not, it is a genius debut solo album by one of the best songwriters of all time.
             

VAN MORRISON - BOB DYLAN - ROBBIE ROBERTSON

Robbie Robertson – Robbie Robertson
Label: Geffen Records – 9 24160-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock

TRACKS

                  

01.Fallen Angel   5:54
Backing Vocals, Keyboards – Peter Gabriel
Bass – Tinker Barfield
Drum Programming – Martin Page
Keyboards – Garth Hudson
Percussion – Manu Katché
02.Showdown At Big Sky   4:48
Backing Vocals – Bill Dillon, BoDeans, Daniel Lanois
Bass – Larry Klein
03.Broken Arrow   5:23
Backing Vocals – Daniel Lanois
Bass – Abraham Laboriel
Drum Programming, Keyboards – Peter Gabriel
Drums – Terry Bozzio
04.Sweet Fire Of Love   5:17
Backing Vocals – Daniel Lanois
Featuring – U2
05.American Roulette   4:57
Backing Vocals – BoDeans, Maria McKee
Bass – Hans Christian, Tinker Barfield
Chapman Stick [Bass (Stick)] – Tony Levin
Drums – Terry Bozzio
Keyboards – Garth Hudson
06.Somewhere Down The Crazy River   4:57
Backing Vocals – Sammy BoDean
Bass – Tony Levin
Guitar, Omnichord – Daniel Lanois
07.Hell's Half Acre   4:21
Chapman Stick [Bass (Stick)] – Tony Levin
Percussion – Manu Katché
08.Sonny Got Caught In The Moonlight   3:52
Backing Vocals – Rick Danko
Bass – Tony Levin
Drum Programming – Cary Butler
Guitar – Daniel Lanois
Percussion – Manu Katché
09.Testimony   4:50
Backing Vocals – Ivan Neville
Bass – Daniel Lanois
Featuring – U2

LINE - UP

                    

Robbie Robertson – vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
Bill Dillon – guitars on tracks 1, 2, and 5–9; backing vocal on track 2
Tony Levin – Chapman Stick on tracks 5 & 7; bass on tracks 6 & 8
Manu Katché – drums on tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8; percussion on tracks 1, 7, and 8
Daniel Lanois – percussion on tracks 2, 3, 4, and 8; backing vocal on tracks 2, 3, and 4; Omnichord on track 6; guitar on tracks 5 and 8

ADDITIONAL PERSONEL

Eluriel "Tinker" Barfield – bass on tracks 1 and 5
Garth Hudson – keyboards on tracks 1 and 5
Peter Gabriel – keyboards on tracks 1 and 3; vocals on track 1; drum program on track 3; vocal cameo on track 9
Larry Klein – bass on track 2
Abraham Laboriel – bass on track 3
Terry Bozzio – drums on tracks 3 and 5
Bono – vocals, bass on track 4; backing vocal and guitar on track 9
The Edge – guitar on tracks 4 and 9
Adam Clayton – bass on tracks 4 and 9
Larry Mullen, Jr. – drums on tracks 4 and 9
Hans Christian – bass guitar on track 5
Gil Evans Horn Section – horns on track 9
BoDeans, Sam Llanas, Kurt Neumann, Maria McKee  Sammy BoDean, Sam Llanas, Cary Butler, Rick Danko, Ivan Neville (Backing vocals)

MP3 @ 320 Size: 104 MB
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Robbie Robertson : Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy 1998

Robbie Robertson, (born Jaime Royal Robertson, July 5, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band.

One of the premier songwriters of the rock era, Robbie Robertson was born July 5, 1943, in Toronto, Ontario.

Contact from the Underworld of Redboy is an album by Robbie Robertson that was released in 1998 by Capitol Records. The album is composed of music inspired by Native American music (including traditional Native American songs and chants) as well as modern rock, trip-hop, and electronica, often integrated together, and features many guest artists.

Continuing their affiliation with Dylan, the group, renamed simply the Band, went on to become one of rock's seminal acts; propelled by Robertson's acute, evocative examinations of American mythology and lore, they made a series of seminal LPs, including 1968's Music from Big Pink and the following year's self-titled masterpiece.

The Band dissolved on Thanksgiving Day 1976 following an all-star concert filmed by director Martin Scorsese and later released as The Last Waltz.

The electronics are interwoven with blues, folk, country, and rock, as well as American Indian music.

And, as on Music for the Native Americans, Robertson is primarily concerned with American Indians throughout Contact, whether it's through the chants of "Peyote Healing" or the protest of "Sacrifice," which features Leonard Peltier a Native American who has been imprisoned since 1976 on charges of murder many believe are fabricated on a telephone call. Both his lyrical and musical concerns can get bogged down in their own pretensions, but often, the results are provocative and unique.


Tracklist

    1.  The Sound Is Fading     5:01    
    2.  The Code Of Handsome Lake     6:11    
    3.  Making A Noise     5:13    
    4.  Unbound     4:36    
    5.  Sacrifice     6:19    
    6.  Rattlebone     4:26    
    7.  Peyote Healing     6:10    
    8.  In The Blood     4:35    
    9.  Stomp Dance (Unity)     4:49    
    10. The Lights     5:54    
    11. Take Your Partner By The Hand (Red Alert Mix)  6:43

LEONARD   PELTIER

Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM).
In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Peltier has been identified as a political prisoner by certain activist groups.
Amnesty International placed his case under the "Unfair Trials" category of its Annual Report: USA 2010 , citing concerns with the fairness of the proceedings.
His murder conviction has survived appeals in various courts over the years.

In 2002 and 2003, Paul DeMain, editor of News From Indian Country, wrote that sources had told him that Peltier had said he killed the FBI agents.

Peltier issued a statement in 2004 accusing one witness of perjury for her testimony and being a sellout. The two men charged in the murder of Aquash were convicted.

His last parole hearing was in July 2009.
His request for parole was denied. Peltier's next scheduled hearing will be in July 2024.





SACRIFICE


You know we have a million stories to tell
I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told.

Sacrifice your freedom
Sacrifice your prayer.

Take away your language
Cut off all your hair.

Sacrifice the loved ones
Who always stood by me
Stranded in the wasteland
Set my spirit free.


My name is LEONARD PELTIER
I am a Lakota and Anishnabe
And I am living in the United States penitentiary
Which is the swiftest growing
Indian reservations in the country
I have been in prison since 1976
For an incident that took place on the Oglala-Lakota Nation.

There was a shoot-out between members of the American Indian Movement
And The FBI and the local Sheriffs State Troopers.

Two agents were killed and one Indian was murdered.

Three of us were charged with the deaths of the FBI agents.

My co-defendants were found not-guilty by reasons of self-defense
My case was separated and I was found guilty before
a jury of non-Indian people

The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents
Nor did he know what participation Leonard Peltier may have played in it.

But someone have to pay for the crime.

Sacrifice your freedom
Sacrifice your prayer
Take away your language
Cut off all your hair
Sacrifice the loved ones
Who always stood by me
Stranded in the wasteland
Set my spirit free.


The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents
Nor did he know what participation Leonard Peltier may have played in it
But someone has to pay for the crime.


There's a lot of nights that I lay in my cell
And I can't understand why this hell this hell and this terror
That I have been going through for twenty-one years hasn't ended.


Sacrifice your freedom
Sacrifice your prayer
Take away your language
Cut off all your hair
Sacrifice the loved ones
Who always stood by me
Stranded in the wasteland
Set my spirit free.
But yet I know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice
To make things better for our people
The sacrifice I have made when I really sit down to think about it
Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago
Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made

Some gave their lives
Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arms
So the sacrifice I have made is nothing compared to those


I've gone too far now to start backing down
I don't give up
Not 'til my people are free will I give up
And if I have to sacrifice some more
Then I sacrifice some more


Sacrifice your freedom
Sacrifice your prayer
Take away your language
Cut off all your hair

Sacrifice the loved ones
Who always stood by me
Stranded in the wasteland

Set my spirit free
But yet I know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice
To make things better for our people

The sacrifice I have made when I really sit down to think about it
Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago
Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made
Some gave their lives

Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arms
So the sacrifice I have made is nothing compared to those

I've gone too far now to start backing down
I don't give up
Not 'til my people are free will I give up
And if I have to sacrifice some more
Then I sacrifice some more

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Robbie Robertson & the Red Road Ensemble : Music for the Native Americans 1994

Robbie Robertson (born Jaime Robert Klegerman, 5 July 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band.
He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Bob Dylan hired The Band for his famed, controversial tour of 1966, his first wide exposure as an electrified rock and roll performer rather than his earlier acoustic folk sound. Robertson's distinctive guitar sound was an important part of the music; Dylan famously praised him as "the only mathematical guitar genius I’ve ever run into who doesn’t offend my intestinal nervousness with his rearguard sound."

Music for The Native Americans is a 1994 album by Robbie Robertson, compiling music written by Robertson and other colleagues (billed as the Red Road Ensemble) for the television documentary film The Native Americans.

The album was Robertson's first foray into writing music specifically inspired by his Mohawk heritage.

Tracks

1. "Coyote Dance" (Dave Pickell, Jim Wilson) - (4:07)
2. "Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song)" (Pura Fe) - Ulali (4:17)
3. "Ghost Dance" (Robertson, Jim Wilson) - (5:12)
4. "The Vanishing Breed" (Robertson, Douglas Spotted Eagle) - (4:39)
5. "It Is a Good Day to Die" (Robertson) - (5:46)
6. "Golden Feather" (Robertson) - (5:22)
7. "Akua Tuta" (Claude McKenzie, Florent Vollant) - Kashtin (4:51)
8. "Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood" (Robertson) - (4:52)
9. "Cherokee Morning Song" - Rita Coolidge (2:58)
10. "Skinwalker" (Robertson, Patrick Leonard) - (5:56)
11. "Ancestor Song" (Traditional) - Ulali (2:54)
12. "Twisted Hair" (Jim Wilson) - Robbie Robertson and Bonnie Jo Hunt (3:23)

Size 136 MB
Released : October 4, 1994
Format : CD
Label : Capitol Records
Bitrate 320
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Featuring :

Rita Coolidge - Vocals
Kashtin
Douglas Spotted Eagle
The Silvercloud Singers
Jim Wilson
Ulali




Mohawk (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. Their current settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada. Their traditional homeland stretched southward of the Mohawk River, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, westward to the border with the Oneida Nation traditional homeland territory, and northward to the St Lawrence River.

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GHOST DANCECrow has brought the message
to the children of the sun
for the return of the buffalo
and for a better day to come

You can kill my body
You can damn my soul
for not believing in your god
and some world down below

You don't stand a chance
against my prayers
You don't stand a chance
against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
but we shall live again,
we shall live again

My sister above
She has red paint
She died at Wounded Knee
like a later day saint

You got the big drum in the distance
the blackbirds in the sky
That's the sound that you hear
when the buffalo cry

You don't stand a chance
against my prayers
You don't stand a chance
against my love
They outlawed the Ghost Dance
but we shall live again,
we shall live again

Crazy Horse was a mystic
He knew the secret of the trance
And Sitting Bull the great apostle
of the Ghost Dance

Come on Comanche
Come on Blackfoot
Come on Shoshone
Come on Cheyenne

We shall live again

Come on Arapaho
Come on Cherokee
Come on Paiute
Come on Sioux

We shall live again