Rags and Bones

An Exploration of The Band

By: Jeff Sellars - editor, Kevin C. Neece - editor

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

After performing with Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957-1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon Helm) eventually rose to fame in the sixties as backing musicians for Bob Dylan. This collaboration with Dylan presented the group with a chance to expand musically and strike out on their own. The Band's fusion of rock, country, soul, and blues music-all tinged with a southern flavor and musical adventurousness—created a unique soundscape. The combined use of multiple instruments, complex song structures, and poetic lyrics required attentive listening and a sophisticated interpretive framework. It is no surprise, then, that they soon grew to be one of the biggest bands of their era.

In Rags and Bones: An Exploration of The Band, scholars and musicians take a broad, multidisciplinary approach to The Band and their music, allowing for examination through sociological, historical, political, religious, technological, cultural, and philosophical means. Each contributor approaches The Band from their field of interest, offering a wide range of investigations into The Band's music and influence.

Commercially successful and critically lauded, The Band created a paradoxically mythic and hauntingly realistic lyrical landscape for their songs—and their musicianship enlarged this detailed landscape.

©2022 University Press of Mississippi (P)2023 Tantor

not the best audiobook you could get on the band.

well written but overly gaudy and ornate wording. the author was more excited about their own linguistic abilities than the band so much that it takes away from the experience of receiving the information. for some reason it doesn’t suite the subject matter. on top of that this has got to be the worst voice for this book. i wish i could move the pitch down so the voice wasn’t so annoying and grating. get any other book on the band besides this and the 33&1/3 book.
overall a bunch of regurgitated 2nd hand info.