Prog / Prog related Gems

This recording was the first solo album RR made after his many years in The band.

Apart from Fripp’s Exposure i cant remember i’we ever seen a Personel list as this one.

Personnel

Robbie Robertson – vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards

Manu Katché – drums on 1 2 6 7 8, percussion on 1 7 8

Bill Dillon – guitars on 1 2 5 6 7 8 9, backing vocal on 2

Tony Levin – Chapman Stick on 5 7, bass on 6 8

Daniel Lanois – percussion on 2 3 4 8, backing vocal on 2 3 4, Omnichord on 5, guitar on 5 8

Additional personnel

Tinker Barfield – bass on 1 5

Martin Page – drum programming on 1

Garth Hudson – keyboards on 1 5

Peter Gabriel – keyboards on 1 3, vocal on 1, drum program on 3

Larry Klein – bass on 2

BoDeans (Sam Llanas, Kurt Neumann) – backing vocals on 2 5

Sammy BoDean (Sam Llanas) – backing vocal on 6

Terry Bozzio – drums on 3 5

Abraham Laboriel – bass on 3

Larry Mullen Jr. – drums on 4 9

Adam Clayton – bass on 4 9

The Edge – guitar on 4 9

Bono – vocals, bass on 4, backing vocal on 9, guitar on 9

Hans Christian – bass guitar on 5

Maria McKee – backing vocal on 5

Cary Butler – backing vocal on 8

Ivan Neville – backing vocal on 9

Gil Evans Horn Section – horns on 9

Rick Danko - backing vocal on 8

RR music writing and poetry is strong all the way, an album without any fillers.

In general the album is in a Rock style not far from the one U2’s got on their best Albums.

But this is still more varied than any U2 album, and especialy Manu Katche’s / Terry Bozzio drums and Tony Levin’s Bass, lift this album to a level of its own.

Fallen Angle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQZhSNHCRC4

A Track sounding as if it would be the unrealeased track from Peter Gabriel’s So.

RR’s vocal is beatutiful on this one, and the PG backing vocal makes it a collecters must have.

Showdown At Big Sky

A short clip from the track here (not the bast sound) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmsKXurXqlQ

Not the best song on the album, but still a solid Rock song, liftet by great Manu Katche drums

Somewhere Down That Crazy River, defenitly the less prog related song, but as i cant find links to other better tracks 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ3LOu9IK7Y&feature=fvst