Classic Masters

Artist: Robbie Robertson
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724353985820
EAN: 0724353985820
ASIN: B00006ALB1

Release Date: 2002-07-30

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Tracks:

Making A Noise (Olympic Version)
Stomp Dance (Unity)
Unbound (Glen Ballard Remix)
Ghost Dance (New Mix)
Coyote Dance
In The Blood
The Code Of Handsome Lake
Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song)
Sacrifice
The Sound Is Fading
Golden Feather (New Mix)
Peyote Healing
Take Your Partner By The Hand (New Mix)

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Customer Reviews:

The re-invention of an American storyteller.......2005-02-09

Lets face it folks, artists mature (like most of us). Their influences and skills evolve, as does the technology with which to best express them, but this just doesn't seem to stop weepy fans from longing for music stylistically identical to one small period of output in a performers long and colorful career.
Such is the case with Robbie Robertson.

This is not the same Robbie Robertson who toured Canada with the Hawks playing Memphis style R&B in 1959.
It's not the same Robbie Robertson who birthed electric folk with Dylan in a basement in Woodstock in 1967.
It's certainly not the same Robbie Robertson who handily bested Clapton during a guitar duel in The Last Waltz in 1978, and it's not even the same Robbie Robertson who's first solo album on Geffen in 1987 showed us he was still after all these years an unrivaled American storyteller.

CLASSIC MASTERS is a complilation culled exclusively from two enigmatic 1990's albums. These display a mature Robbie Robertson rediscovering his Native American heritige while breaking his own musical boundries with the introduction of native chant, loops, spoken word recitation and hip-hop rhythms. The results are both startling and seductive. This CD presents choice cuts from those 90's releases spiced up with a few curious but superior alternate mixes. The tracks are in turn hypnotic and smokey-groove. Much in the same way Peter Gabriel integrated world music with british 80's pop so does Robbie Robertson successfully incorporate American Tribal music and contemporary African American rhythym into the familiar palette of Robertsonian storytelling.

Sure it would have been nice to include a few tracks from his precious solo efforts, (Broken Arrow and Testimony would have fit in nicely) but maybe Geffen wouldn't play ball. So, if you can pull yourself tearfully away from his impressive but dusty back catalog, CLASSIC MASTERS is an tantilizing introduction to what Robbie Robertson has become and perhaps some clues to where he is headed.

Wonderfull and Fresh.......2004-04-21

Even that tracks are mostly from Red Boy , it is a pleasure to listen to Robbie's arrangements and his way to tell a story both musically and lyrically . A true master of sounds with Soul and Spirit . A must for Robertson's fans . His Six Nation theme is as real as life can get . By killing and alineating american indians , the usa has killed it's soul . A tragedy in itself . Robbie brings back the hope of a better relation with the usa's true nature : harmory in the Spirit World ...

excellent compilation : tribute to native americans.......2002-10-09

the 2 c.d.s that the tracks on this one come from are my 2 favorites by robbie robertson. sincere,spiritual music that can be listened to over and over again. pay no attention to the previous 3 star review. this is remarkable music, a tribute to the forgotten american indian. every time i hear this music, it sends chills up my spine. it's that good,trust me, i've listened to alot of music.

Closer to Moby than the Band........2002-07-30

It's a decent CD, but I'll probably only listen to it sporadically. All the selections are from Robbie's Music For Native Americans/Contact From The Underworld of Redboy phase, and they haven't included anything from his first 2 albums or any of his soundtrack contributions (although his 2002 Olympic mix of Making A Noise is included). If you are an aging Band fan, you'll think this CD is terrible, but if you enjoyed Moby's PLAY CD you'll get a kick out of Robbie's mixture of Trad Native American songs and modern drum/bass techniques. Again, not a bad CD, but not something I'll spend much time listening to, I listen to Robbie Robertson for evocative narratives about an outsiders view of America, not for an outsiders version of youth culture and music.

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