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Songs

Deep dives on the Band's essential catalog, weighted toward the four albums where the songwriting was strongest: Music from Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright, and Cahoots, with the best of the later records included as well. Each page covers the writing and recording story, who actually sang lead, and where the song has traveled since.

## Music from Big Pink (1968) - The Weight - Tears of Rage - Chest Fever - We Can Talk - Long Black Veil - I Shall Be Released

## The Band (1969) - Across the Great Divide - Rag Mama Rag - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Up on Cripple Creek - Whispering Pines - King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

## Stage Fright (1970) - The Shape I'm In - Stage Fright - The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show

## Cahoots (1971) - Life Is a Carnival - When I Paint My Masterpiece - 4% Pantomime

## Northern Lights–Southern Cross (1975) - Ophelia - It Makes No Difference - Acadian Driftwood - Forbidden Fruit

## Non-album singles - Twilight, a 1975 outtake from the Northern Lights sessions, released as the B-side to "Acadian Driftwood" rather than on the album itself