Allman Brothers Band: The Weight (3/9/2009, w/Levon Helm, Taj Mahal + partial Phil & Friends)

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3/9/2009, NYC, Opening Night.....first March Madness in two years! The World's Greatest Live Rock 'n' Roll Band and FIVE yes five special guests perform The Band's classic "The Weight" before 2,800 Peach Heads in the world's best concert venue, Broadway at 74th Street!! Guests include Levon Helm, Brian Mitchell, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams of Phil Lesh & Friends, and Taj Mahal. "The Weight" was written by: Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson. "The Weight" is rated at #41 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.
"The Weight" takes the folk music motif of a traveler, who in the first line arrives in Nazareth in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Once there, he encounters various residents of the town, the song being a story of these encounters. Nazareth is the hometown of the guitar manufacturer C. F. Martin & Company. Years later, the band Nazareth took its name from this line.
The residents include a man who cannot direct the traveler to a hotel, Carmen and the Devil walking side by side, "Crazy Chester," who offers a bed in exchange for the traveler taking his dog, and Luke who has gone out to wait for the apocalypse, leaving his young bride neglected.
In Levon Helm's autobiography "This Wheel's on Fire," Helm explains that the people mentioned in the song were based on real people the Band knew. The "Miss Anna Lee" mentioned in the lyric is Helm's longtime friend Anna Lee Amsden.
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[stratking69er]

@2514zetnom

I assume the question is supposed to be humorous ? If not, you must be a really dopey twat !!

[2514zetnom]

Who are these guys? Their terrible they need to practice

[SeanmanBand]

amazing! Its like the Last Waltz :)