I know this is not a popular opinion, but A Change Is Gonna Come, written by Sam Cooke, is my favorite track on The Band's album Moondog Matinee, released on October 15, 1973. One of my favorite Rick's vocal performances. Soulful.
📷John Scheele
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Happy Danko/Dylan Saturday!
Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Bob Dylan, 1974 tour.
Photo by Larry Morris
Happy Rick Danko Fashion Friday!
Remembering Janis Joplin who died on this day in 1970.
With Rick, riding on the Festival Express train, summer 1970.
Photo by John Scheele
Rick holding a watermelon, photo by Elliott Landy, 1969
The Band's self-titled album is associated with autumn, especially its last song. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) showcases so perfectly the talent of Richard, Robbie, Levon, Garth, and of course, of Rick, who plays here one of his most popular bass lines.
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Happy Danko/Dylan Saturday!
Rick, Bob Dylan, Bob Neuwirth, David Blue and Venetia Cunningham, at Ondine, New York, October 5, 1965.
Photo by Jerry Schatzberg
Happy Rick Danko Fashion Friday!
The Band, Woodstock, 1969, photo by David Gahr
Classic shot by Elliott Landy
The Band posing with Rick's Hudson, outside his house on Zena Road, Woodstock, 1969
"I feel autumn in the air" 🍂
Written by Rick Danko, Home Cookin' was recorded in 1976, but wasn't released until 2005 on the box set A Musical History.
Robbie Robertson said about this song: "When I hear it my heart breaks, because it's so beautiful."
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Happy first day of fall! 🍁🍂🍁
Photo by David Gahr, 1969
Happy Rick Danko Fashion Friday and happy birthday to The Band's self-titled album, released on this day in 1969.
Rick said about this second album that it changed everybody’s lives.
Photo by Elliott Landy, photoshoot for the album
Happy Rick Danko Fashion Friday and happy birthday to Cahoots, The Band's fourth studio album, released on this day in 1971. This is the picture on the back cover, taken by Richard Avedon.
Rick in 1962, at Summer Garden, Port Dover, Ontario
Rick: "Levon and Robbie started to work with me, teaching me about the bass and the bass feeling. I rehearsed for maybe two months off the stage before they’d let me on."
Photo by Gary Lucas
Cahoots, The Band's fourth studio album, was released on September 15, 1971. It opens with Life Is A Carnival, written by Rick, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson, and with horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint.
Photo by Richard Avedon
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Happy Danko/Dylan Saturday!
Bob Dylan and The Hawks, Providence, October 1965
Photo by Edward Grazda
On this day in 1976, The Band played at the rock festival Sunday Break II, in Austin, Texas. Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton and The Steve Miller Band, to name a few, were also on the bill.
Photos by Watt M. Casey, Jr.
Most known for the segment of The Last Waltz where Rick plays this heartbreaking song for Martin Scorsese, Sip The Wine was included on Rick's eponymous album, released in December 1977. An essential in his repertoire.
Photo by Michael Ochs
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Happy Sunday!
As promised, more of these pictures that a fan sent me on Facebook from a Rick Danko/Paul Butterfield show in Minneapolis.
Happy Danko/Dylan Saturday!
Backstage during the 1974 tour: Rick, Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper and an unidentified woman.
Photo by Barry Feinstein
Thank you to Dave who sent me some pictures on Facebook. These are from a Rick Danko/Paul Butterfield show in Minneapolis in 1979.
More to come!
Rick, Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson, Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969.
Photo by Amalie R. Rothschild
Van Morrison will celebrate his birthday on August 31. Former resident of Woodstock and friend of The Band, he joined them at The Last Waltz in 1976 and offered one of the most memorable performances of the concert. And what to say about the purple suit?
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It's National Dog Day 🐶
Rick: "Then I got Hamlet the dog from Bob Dylan. Hamlet was as big as a bear - a big dog."
Photo by Elliott Landy
Happy Rick Danko Fashion Friday!
With Janis Joplin, John “Marmaduke” Dawson, and Jerry Garcia on the Festival Express, summer 1970
Rick and Joni Mitchell, The Last Waltz, 1976.
Photo by Davis Gans
Rick co-wrote All Our Past Times with Eric Clapton. The song was released in 1976 - with Rick sharing vocals - on Clapton's album No Reason To Cry. The same year, Rick, Eric and The Band performed it at The Last Waltz.
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Happy Danko/Dylan Saturday!
On August 18, 1997, Rick Danko made a surprise appearance at Bob Dylan's concert at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Photo by John Atashian
Happy Rick Danko Fashion Friday!
To end the Woodstock Festival week in style.
Photo by Henry Diltz
STEVE WEITZMAN: Here's a photo I took of Robbie and Rick coming offstage immediately following their set at an all-day festival in Austin, Texas called Sunday Break 2 on Sept. 5, 1976. It was 103 degrees that day and people could barely breathe which clearly shows in the pic.