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I was looking at "Robbie Robertson" "Discography" and was surprised to see that one of his albums, from 1968, was missing, "Contact from the Underworld of Redboy".
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Hi Noel, it’s there but unfortunately I guess it’s not visible if you only have Tidal. The album is visible under Qobuz. Observe the Qobuz icon on the album cover and the absence of Tidal’s.
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Hi Singleton, thanks for the reply.
I can see what you are saying, Tidal, for some unknown reason, doesn’t have this album in their catalogue, but Qobuz does.
Fortunately I have a copy on CD, so I can always access it in “My Library”.
A great album from a great artist that I wanted others to be aware of and enjoy as much as me.
Cheers.
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Hi Nigel. thanks for reminding me to take the opportunity to listen. It would have been a mistake to pass this album by. I’ve known of Robbie Robertson for ages but this is the first time I’ve actually heard him. I’ll be sure to check out additional albums. I believe you had a typo the album was released in 1998. Again many thanks
Hi Singleton, you are right about the release date being 1998, which I did mean to type in, but those typos can occur so easily.
Enjoy listening to Robbie Robertson’s amazing albums, I have all of them and always enjoy sitting down with a cool beer to hear his cool music.
The first album, “Robbie Robertson” has one of my favourite tracks, “Somewhere Down the Crazy River”.
Daniel Lanois, the album producer, had this to say about the song…
" When asked about the inspiration for the album’s single “Somewhere Down the Crazy River”, Lanois commented, "Robbie Robertson was describing what it was like to hang out in Arkansas with Levon Helm in his old neighbourhood. He was telling me about the hot nights and fishing with dynamite, and was asking someone for directions for someplace somewhere down the crazy river . … I had presented him with this instrument that Brian Eno introduced me to called the Suzuki Omnichord, like an electric autoharp. He found a little chord sequence with it that was sweet and wonderful. As he was developing his chord sequence I recorded him and superimposed his storytelling, which I was secretly recording, on top. That was the birth of ‘Somewhere Down The Crazy River.’ It’s kind of like a guy with a deep voice telling you about steaming nights in Arkansas.
This song is notable as Robertson’s only solo hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number 15 on the UK Singles Chart. His follow-up single there, “Fallen Angel” (also from the album), reached number 95.
“Fallen Angel” is a beautiful song of remembrance for fellow “The Band” member, Richard Manuel, the keyboard player, singer and songwriter.
Cheers,
Noel
Hi Noel,
The mention of Brian Eno has me reminiscing of Roxy Music’s Avalon as well as a lot of British punk that I listened to briefly back in the day side by side with classic old school rap. I’ll have to try to remember and revisit the genre in Roon.
“If you’re up there can you touch me. Can you see me. I don’t know. If you’re up there can you reach me and lay a flower in the snow.”
Lost my best friend not long ago. We road through the years and wars together and it’s hard fighting devils without him. I miss him greatly. Thanks for the song.
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