BEST OF/20TH CENTURY 04/17/2012 without getting mired in retro

without getting mired in retro sound for its own sake or contemporary country's synthetic trappings

the addition of synthesizers didn't alienate the band's headbanging following

yet the songs are fleshed out beautifully with strings

Personnel: Leon Russell (vocals

A1                    Sure Shot                    3:20

BEST OF/20TH CENTURY 04/17/2012 without getting mired in retroThe Band's greatest strength was their ability to sound like the whole history of American pop music rolled into one big rustic blender, creating in the process a kind of frozen mythic landscape that somehow informs the present by suggesting the past. It was quite a hat trick, and it's easy to glimpse a little bit of that funky and mythic R&B carnival the Band represented in this brief ten song set. Songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,"