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Robbie Robertson - Testimony (Unity Mix) 5:42 02. The Band - Bessie Smith 4:18 03. Bob Dylan & The Band - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 3:38 04. The Band - The Night They Drove The Old Dixie Down (Live) 4:53 05. Levon & The Hawks - He Don't Love You (And He'll Break 2:38 Your Heart) 06. Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River 4:56 07. The Band - Life Is A Carnival (Live) 4:06 08. The Band - It Makes No Difference 6:32 09. The Band - The Weight (Live) 5:18 10. The Band - Out Of The Blue 3:22 11. Levon & The Hawks - I'm Gonna Play The Honky Tonks 3:04 12. Bob Dylan - Obviously Five Believers 3:35 13. Robbie Robertson - Soap Box Preacher 5:21 14. The Band - Twilight (Song Sketch) 3:22 15. Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks - Come Love 3:08 16. Robbie Robertson - When The Night Was Young 5:05 17. The Band - The Shape I'm In (Live) 3:52 18. Robbie Robertson - Unbound 4:37 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ One of the premier songwriters of the rock era, Robbie Robertson was born July 5, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario. The son of a Jewish father and Mohawk mother, Jaime Robbie Robertson's first brush with live music came at the Six Nations Reservation, his mother's girlhood home; at the age of five, he also gained exposure to the country music of rural America. Not long after, he began taking guitar lessons from a cousin, and gradually began composing his first songs. As time wore on, his musical interests evolved from country to big band to rock, and he eventually dropped out of school to pursue a career as a performer. Released as a companion to Robertson's 2016 memoir of the same name, "Testimony" is the singer/songwriter's own take on his musical history - an 18-track compilation that samples from every era of his career, from his time supporting Ronnie Hawkins to his stabs at moody trip-hop. While the book ends when the Band disbands, Testimony finds space for selections from his solo career - five songs total, with 1991's "Storyville" earning the largest play and the electronica aspects of 1998's "Contract From The Underworld Of Red Boy" and 2011's "How To Become Clairvoyant" diminished. Still, The Band naturally figures heavily into the equation here, but Robertson avoids his biggest hits along with some of his best-known songs. Instead, he culls heavily from The Band's Live at the Academy of Music 1971 performance - it's better known as the 1972 LP "Rock Of Ages" - and the 2005 Band box "A Musical History", which is where all the early cuts from Levon Helm & The Hawks and the Robertson-sung "Twilight (Song Sketch)" were first released. If "Testimony" is light on rarities, what matters is context. By piecing together all these elements of his career - including his time backing Hawkins ('Come Love') and Bob Dylan ('Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' from 'Before The Flood') - he paints a fairly rich portrait of his musical achievements, so "Testimony" does indeed wind up being a musical memoir. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Group ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘