well well well .. at this point of his life he decided to deliver the song like that ! i heard him doing that song more clean but i dont care its his song ! " to be home again " ! i liked it anyway ! Grande richard! el mastro !

Wow, thank you for posting the actual live performance!

The Band Did Not Fuck Around

The Band did not Fuck Around Folk's

Happy Heavenly 81st Birthday Rick Danko December 29 1943 - December 10 1999

❤

Classic!

He never knew he was gifted the golden voice. He sat back while levon sang. You can't blame him.

Never appreciated enough in his time but this poor guy from Florida did. Rest well sir those with quality ears miss your gifts.🙏

He was a great singer but I think he was a great guitar player

Until I heard and saw this version, I had always thought that Ray Charles's performance was definitive. Richard Manuel's, however, is so soulful and heartfelt, and all the more authentic when you learn about his tragic end.

Love you Rick forever and always. A great musician, singer and songwriter. A very humerous and positive man. You'll never be forgotten ❤

Had tickets never made it there NY St Thruway shut down

Those Voices!!

how could someone with so much kill themself?

That voice literally makes time stand still. Mesmerizing performance. What a great of all time Richard was.

2 of the great ones

He sounds like a cross between Ray Charles and Dr. John. Beautiful

I would bet that Richard liked Ray Charles' music as much as my Mom.

We really didn't know him. And it's our loss.

I'm so glad that I got to see Rick in a really intimate setting, a solo performance in a really small coffeeshop called the Rose Tattoo Cafe in Philadelphia in the early 1990s. I even got to talk to him after the show and get his autograph. I don't remember what he played, but it was probably a lot of the songs he played on here because it was right around the same time. RIP.

Met him twice. Sundowner Club in Norman. Then at the Onyx Club in OKC. We made recordings thanks Beas, still listen to them. This group later the Band was much better as the Hawks. The soul of the entire group is unmatched. Rich nailed Ray and put that Canadian spin on it.

This just popped up. Hauntingly beautiful yet sad was that scene. It's permanently there in my head.

This is what Robertson said about this song: “There was this guy, “Cowboy” Dan Johnson, who had worked for Scorsese for about five years and he’d worked for me at one time too. He was a strange combination of characters. He was from Kentucky, he’d been on the front line at ‘Nam, he was an excellent chef - you’d never guess it, ’cause he was a big brute. Anyway, I was in New York, working with Marty, and when I was leaving, this guy, Dan, asked if he could catch a ride up town with me. So he came and we decided to go into this bar and have a couple of beers. We talked for a few minutes. Then I drove him back to his place, I went to my hotel. The next day, I got a call and was told that Dan had died. He died of acute meningitis of the brain. There was no scandal. Here was a guy who just went home and died. It was so devastating to me and Marty. It just blew us apart. We talked about it and thought it would be a nice thing to write a song in memory of Dan. So I ended up doing that, instead of another one I’d originally done. So ‘Between Trains’ was about Dan and for him.

Awesome!! Thank you!!

The white Ray Charles

RIP Richard ... you are missed by so many ... especially me

If ever I needed someone to sing me out of being held by gunpoint, to save my life.. it would be DANKO

God bless you Rick. We still love you!!

Where is the video of this recording?

Rick Danko szeretünk!

One of the best songs ever.

EAgoora Robbie

Beautiful analog live mix.

Always the best

Rick and Levon sang in The Band, but they both called Richard the lead singer.

He has such a Ray Charles vibe ...

Follow the bouncing Rick Danko!!! 🗽

With “horn”. I’d bet my house that Garth was doing a Sax solo.

I NEED A SHOT, A WOMEN TO WALTZ JUST ONE SONG 😊 ARE YOU IN😊

Great find! Just one correction: Robbie is the sole writer/composer of the song.

He always sung like a bird! I still miss him...

There will never be three singers in one person again.

The Canadian Ray Charles.

Never heard this before, fantistic!!

Timeless

Yeah. Very compelling vocalist and musician. People don't realize that when you're on the road all the time, you do not have much of a life outside of playing the gig. If you don't have other outside interests or motivations, it is easy to fall into drugs because they are usually always available. Also the music business is as nasty as any other business with the added caveat that it is easy to let or affect your ego.

Poor sound quality.

the only voice that could even come close to ray's when singing this and "georgia". miss this whole "band" so much (with or without robbie)...they were just incredible..

Richard my favorite.