Look Out Cleveland

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| name = Look Out Cleveland

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| artist = The Band

| album = The Band

| released = September 22, 1969

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| length = 3:09

| label = Capitol

| writer = Robbie Robertson

| producer = John Simon

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"Look Out Cleveland" is the title of the Robbie Robertson-written song on The Band's self-titled album, also known as The Brown Album. The song begins with a boogie-woogie blues riff by pianist Richard Manuel followed by lead singer Rick Danko warning -- "Look out Cleveland, storm is coming through, And it’s runnin’ right up on you".{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} The song's reference is presumably to Cleveland, Ohio,{{cite web |url=https://phish.net/song/look-out-cleveland/history |title=Look Out Cleveland |author=Anon. |work=Phish.net |accessdate=May 15, 2021 |quote=“Look Out Cleveland,” a song by The Band about a storm bearing down on “The Mistake by the Lake”...}}{{better source needed|reason=Anon fan at a fansite making an unconsidered assumption. No reason to think she's not correct, but it's not like she researched and rejected that it could be Cleveland Texas|date=May 2021}} but Cleveland, Texas has also been suggested.{{Cite web |url=http://songmango.com/look-out-cleveland-the-band-review/ |title=Look Out Cleveland (1969) |author=Anon. |work=Song Mango |access-date=2020-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915062026/http://songmango.com/look-out-cleveland-the-band-review/ |archive-date=2019-09-15 |url-status=dead |quote=Because the song refers to Houston in the chorus, we can safely assume that the Cleveland in the song is not the one in Ohio, but rather the town northeast of the big city of the Lone Star State}}{{better source needed|reason=Unsigned far-fetched woolgathering by an anon writer for an obscure now-defunct website|date=May 2021}}

"Look Out Cleveland" differs from most of the songs on The Band's first two albums in that is more influenced by urban blues music than by rural music.{{cite web|title=Across the Great Divide: The Band, "Look Out Cleveland" from The Band (1969)|author=DeRiso, N.|date=7 November 2013|url=http://somethingelsereviews.com/2013/11/07/across-the-great-divide-the-band-look-out-cleveland-from-the-band-1969/|publisher=Something Else!|accessdate=2015-05-25}} According to music critic Nick DeRiso, Elton John's early song "Take Me to the Pilot" appears to be influenced by this song.