Cahoots (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Cahoots

| type = studio

| artist = the Band

| cover = Cahoots (The Band album - cover art).jpg

| alt =

| released = September 15, 1971

| recorded = Early 1971

| studio = Bearsville (Woodstock, New York)

| genre =

• Roots rock
• folk rock
• country rock
• Americana

| length = 46:41

| label = Capitol

| producer = The Band

| prev_title = Stage Fright

| prev_year = 1970

| next_title = Rock of Ages

| next_year = 1972

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Cahoots

| type = studio

| single1 = Life Is a Carnival" / "The Moon Struck One

| single1date = 1971

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/cahoots-mw0000651780|title=Cahoots – The Band | Songs, Reviews, Credits |website=AllMusic|access-date=20 December 2021}}

| rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

| rev2score = B−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: B|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=B&bk=70|access-date=February 21, 2019}}

| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3score = B−{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2000/09/01/music-review-band/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417033244/https://ew.com/article/2000/09/01/music-review-band/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-04-17|title=Music Review: 'The Band'|last=Scherman|first=Tony|date=September 1, 2000|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=April 16, 2019}}

| rev4 = MusicHound

| rev4score = 3/5{{cite book|editor-last1=Graff|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last2=Durchholz|editor-first2=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/72 72]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/72}}

| rev5 = Pitchfork

| rev5score = 5.8/10{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-band-cahoots-50th-anniversary-edition/|title=The Band: Cahoots (50th Anniversary Edition)|website=Pitchfork.com|access-date=20 December 2021}}

| rev6 = Q

| rev6score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite journal|date=October 2000|title=The Band: Cahoots|journal=Q|pages=139}}

| rev7 = Rolling Stone

| rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite magazine|date=August 31, 2000|title=The Band: Cahoots|magazine=Rolling Stone|pages=69–73}}

| rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev8score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}Brackett, Nathan, with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&q=cahoots&pg=PA42 The New Rolling Stone Album Guide] (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 42. {{ISBN|0-7432-0169-8}}.

}}

Cahoots is the fourth studio album by Canadian-American rock band the Band. It was released on September 15, 1971 to mixed reviews, and was their last album of original material for four years. The album's front cover was painted by New York artist/illustrator Gilbert Stone, while the back cover features a photograph portrait of the group by Richard Avedon. The album features guest vocals from Van Morrison. Libby Titus, the partner of drummer Levon Helm and mother of their daughter Amy Helm, also contributed uncredited backing vocals to "The River Hymn", the first time a woman appeared on a Band album.{{Cite web|url=https://theband.hiof.no/albums/libby_titus.html|title = Libby Titus|website=Theband.hiof.no}}{{Cite web|url=https://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/10/09/the-band-river-hymn/|title = The Band, "The River Hymn" (1971): Across the Great Divide|website=Somethingelsereviews.com|date = 9 October 2014}}

Rolling Stone critic Jon Landau described the mood of the album as being "filled with a 'tinge of extinction.{{'"}}{{cite web|title=Cahoots|author=Landau, Jon|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/cahoots-102781/|access-date=2020-08-22|publisher=Rolling Stone|date=November 11, 1971}}

In 2021, a "50th Anniversary" edition of the album was released containing a remix of the original tracks plus outtakes and a partial concert recording from the Olympia Theatre, Paris in May 1971.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/21304192-The-Band-Cahoots|title=The Band – Cahoots (2021, Remixed, Expanded , CD)|access-date=20 December 2021|website=Discogs.com|date=December 2021 }}