Across the Great Divide (album)

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Across the Great Divide

| type = box set

| artist = the Band

| cover = Across The Great Divide (the Band album - cover art).jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1994|11|15}}

| recorded = January 1963 – January 1986

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length = 131:57

| label = Capitol

| producer = John Simon and the Band

| prev_title = Jericho

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Live at Watkins Glen

| next_year = 1995

}}

{{Album ratings

| noprose = yes

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r207797}}

| rev2 = MusicHound

| rev2score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite book|editor-last1=Graff|editor-first1=Gary|editor-link1=Gary Graff|editor-last2=Durchholz|editor-first2=Daniel|year=1999|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/72|url-access=registration|location=Farmington Hills, MI|publisher=Visible Ink Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/72 72]|isbn=1-57859-061-2}}

}}

Across the Great Divide is a box set by Canadian-American rock group The Band. Released in 1994, it consists of two discs of songs from the Band's first seven albums, and a third disc of rarities taken from various studio sessions and live performances. The set is now out of print, having been replaced by the five-CD/one-DVD box set A Musical History which was released in September 2005.

Track listing

All songs written by Robbie Robertson, unless otherwise noted.

=Disc one=

Tracks 1–7 from Music from Big Pink (1968). Tracks 8–15 from The Band (1969). Tracks 16–19 from Stage Fright (1970).

  1. "Tears of Rage" (Bob Dylan, Richard Manuel) – 5:19
  2. "The Weight" – 4:35
  3. "I Shall Be Released" (Dylan) – 3:12
  4. "Chest Fever" – 5:13
  5. "In a Station" (Manuel) – 3:30
  6. "To Kingdom Come" – 3:19
  7. "Lonesome Suzie" (Manuel) – 4:01
  8. "Rag Mama Rag" – 3:03
  9. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" – 3:31
  10. "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" – 3:38
  11. "Rockin' Chair" – 3:39
  12. "Whispering Pines" (Manuel, Robertson) – 3:56
  13. "Up on Cripple Creek" – 4:31
  14. "Across the Great Divide" – 2:54
  15. "The Unfaithful Servant" – 4:16
  16. "The Shape I'm In" – 4:01
  17. "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" – 4:13
  18. "All La Glory" – 3:34
  19. "Stage Fright" – 3:44

=Disc two=

Tracks 1–4 from Cahoots (1971). Tracks 5–9 from Rock of Ages (1972). Tracks 10–11 from Moondog Matinee (1973). Tracks 12–14 from Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975). Tracks 15–17 from Islands (1977).

  1. "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) – 4:18
  2. "The Moon Struck One" – 4:08
  3. "Life Is a Carnival" (Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Robertson) – 3:57
  4. "The River Hymn" – 4:37
  5. "Don't Do It" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) – 4:42
  6. "Caledonia Mission" – 3:21
  7. "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" – 3:52
  8. "Get Up Jake" – 3:16
  9. "This Wheel's on Fire" (Danko, Dylan) – 3:54
  10. "Share Your Love with Me" (Deadric Malone, Alfred Braggs) – 2:54
  11. "Mystery Train" (H. Parker Jr., Sam Phillips, additional lyrics by Robertson) – 5:40
  12. "Acadian Driftwood" – 6:40
  13. "Ophelia" – 3:29
  14. "It Makes No Difference" – 6:32
  15. "Livin' in a Dream" – 2:50
  16. "The Saga of Pepote Rouge" – 4:13
  17. "Right as Rain" – 3:54

=Disc three=

  1. "Who Do You Love?" (Bo Diddley) – 2:40
  2. *by Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks, released March 1963
  3. "Do the Honky Tonk" (Don Robey) – 2:58
  4. *by Levon & the Hawks, recorded live in 1964, previously unreleased
  5. "He Don't Love You" – 2:36
  6. *by Levon & the Hawks, released 1964
  7. "Katie's Been Gone" (Manuel, Robertson) – 2:46
  8. *from The Basement Tapes (1975)
  9. "Bessie Smith" (Danko, Robertson) – 4:18
  10. *from The Basement Tapes
  11. "Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)" (Manuel) – 3:18
  12. *Previously unreleased demo
  13. "Ain't No Cane on the Brazos" (Traditional, arr. by Danko, Helm, Garth Hudson, Manuel, Robertson) – 4:26
  14. *Recorded live 1969 at the Woodstock Festival, previously unreleased
  15. "Slippin' and Slidin'{{-"}} (Richard Penniman) – 3:13
  16. *Recorded live 1970 Syria Mosque Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, previously unreleased
  17. "Twilight" – 3:15
  18. *from The Best of the Band (1976)
  19. "Back to Memphis" (Chuck Berry) – 5:58
  20. "Too Wet to Work" (Garth Hudson) – 2:30
  21. *Performed by Garth Hudson solo, during thundershower
  22. *Recorded live 1973 at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen festival in Watkins Glen, New York
  23. "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" (Stevie Wonder, Ivy Jo Hunter) – 3:25
  24. "Don't Ya Tell Henry" (Dylan) – 3:23
  25. "Endless Highway" – 5:09
  26. *Tracks 10–14 from Live at Watkins Glen (1995)
  27. "She Knows" (Jimmy Griffin, Robb Royer) – 3:22
  28. *Credited to Richard Manuel; Rick Danko and Garth Hudson also perform
  29. *Recorded live 1986 at the Lone Star Cafe in New York City, New York, previously unreleased
  30. "Evangeline" – 3:11 (with Emmylou Harris)
  31. "Out of the Blue" – 3:11
  32. "The Weight" – 4:35 (with The Staple Singers)
  33. "The Last Waltz Refrain" – 1:31
  34. "Theme from The Last Waltz" – 3:26
  35. *Tracks 16–20 from The Last Waltz (1978)

Personnel

;Producers

  • The Band – producers (disc one, tracks 16–19, disc two, tracks 1–17 and disc three tracks 2, 4–5, 8–14)
  • John Simon – producer (disc one, tracks 1–15)
  • Robbie Robertson – producer (disc three, tracks 16–20)
  • Henry Glover – producer (disc three, track 1)
  • Eddie Heller – producer (disc three, track 3)
  • Albert Grossman – producer (disc three, track 6)
  • Eric Blackstead – producer (disc three, track 7)
  • Garth Hudson – producer (disc three, track 15)
  • See individual albums for engineering credits.

;Other participants

References