The Band

"the Band，这个加拿大乐团的故事，应该追溯到什么时候开始讲呢？是从他们和老将Ronnie Hawkins在六○年代初期走唱江湖练功夫的时代开始，还是从他们还叫做The Hawks的时代，和Bob Dylan一起踏上那场永远翻转了流行音乐史的1965-1966年巡回演唱讲起？或许，我们应该把场景设定在Woodstock乡间那幢叫做Big Pink的老房子，看看那间孵育出The Basement Tapes的地下室里那座传说中的双轨录音座？ 　　

关于The Band的传奇故事太多太多了。他们以独立艺人的姿态崛起，恰好是在Bob Dylan出车祸隐居起来的1967年。而在他们仅仅出了两张专辑‐‐\\Music From Big Pink(1967), the Band(1968)之后，The Band已经被目为当代最伟大最顶级的摇滚乐团，足以和Beatles, Stones平起平坐了。 　　

1968年，声望如日中天的Eric Clapton听了The Band同名专辑之后，毅然决定解散Cream，他说︰是这张专辑让他体会到，摇滚乐可以不用塞满永无止境的solo。这是一张改变了他的生命的专辑‐‐\\在那个年代，被The Band改变生命的听众，Clapton只是千千万万分之一而已。"

                                                                  ---------译自《the band》专辑

The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group (1967–1976) consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano, vocals); Richard Manuel (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ, vocals); Garth Hudson (organ, piano, clavinet, accordion, synthesizer, saxophone); and Rick Danko (bass guitar, violin, trombone, vocals), and one American, Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar, vocals).　　

the band

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'Til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... "
Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee."
Now I don't mind'em chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... "

Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Cane back up when he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... "
我名叫佛吉肯恩，服务於往返丹维尔的列车
直到大批骑兵队前来，再度拆毁了铁轨
1865 年的冬天，我们都饿著肚子，快活不下去
我搭著火车前往已沦陷的里奇蒙市
那是我永难忘怀的一段时光，啊........
那一夜，他们打败了南方联盟
所有的鐘声都响了起来
那一夜，他们打败了南方联盟
每个人都在歌唱
他们唱著：啦啦啦........
和老婆一起回到田纳西
有一天，她对我说：
" 佛吉，快点来看！
　罗伯李将军走掉了 "
我不在乎联军忙著劈木砍柴
我也不管钱的来源是否正当
想要的全部拿走，其餘留下
但他们永远夺不走最美好的东西
那一夜，他们打败了南方联盟
所有的鐘声都响了起来
那一夜，他们打败了南方联盟
每个人都在歌唱
他们唱著：啦啦啦........
就像我的父亲，我现在是个工人
就像我的兄长，我也起义造反
噢！当时他才十八岁，骄傲而英勇
但有个北方佬使他长眠墓中
我以脚下的鲜血立誓
即使被击倒，你也找不到人取代我－－佛吉肯恩
那一夜，他们打败了南方联盟
所有的鐘声都响了起来
那一夜，他们打败了南方联盟
每个人都在歌唱
他们唱著：啦啦啦........