Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks The Roulette Years
(2 CDs)
- Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks The Roulette Years Dvd
- Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks The Roulette Years Cast
This is probably the Hawkins CD most worth hunting down for Band fans. It has everything on the Rhino album (except for cut 18, which is a track recorded in 1970).The two-CD set contains a lot of stuff with Levon drumming, and a fair bit of stuff with Robbie and Rick, and several songs with Garth and Richard too. Altogether there are six songs that feature the complete Band lineup backing Hawkins. Three of the songs are shelved recordings from the early 60's with the young Levon singing lead and Robbieand Rick on instruments (along with saxman Jerry Penfund), including anengaging version of 'Further on up the Road'. Quite a few ofthe songs have the complete Band/Hawks lineup in place (with one interesting substitution: Roy Buchanen plays bass and Rick Danko is on Rhythm guitar on versions of 'Bo Diddley' and the version of 'Who Do You Love?' that appears also on the Across the Great Divide box set).Garth Hudson contribute a few things to several cuts on this compilation (he is not playing on the Rhino collection), including a wild series of organ fills to 'Bossman' in which you can hear intimations of the Garthhood to come. The CD pair contains acomplete record of all the participants in the recording sessions Hawkins played in while with Roulette from 1958 to 1963.
The compilation includes'Suzie-Q', a good, but not great, cover of Ronnie's cousin Dale's hit,the Helm/Robertson/Danko/Penfound song 'What a Party','There's a Screw Loose' (there sure is, this track is worth the CD price), and'Kansas City' by Rockin' Ronald, although Ronnie says it's not him singing on that one.
Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks: The Roulette Years (2 CDs) This is probably the Hawkins CD most worth hunting down for Band fans. It has everything on the Rhino album (except for cut 18, which is a track recorded in 1970). Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks - The Roulette Years Disc 1 1. Further on up the Road 17. Nineteen Years Old 18.
Peter Viney on the tracks featuring The Band:
'The Roulette Years' is an essential album to have. There are somedoubts as to the 100% accuracy of the notes but they list sessiondates and who did what. In the sense of 'The Band' as the fivemembers, I'm not sure there are any. The tracks include JerryPenfound, the sixth Hawk. So that's the 7/5/63 session (dates are inBritish order) with the six Hawks: Bossman, High Blood Pressure,Instrumental intro, There's A Screw loose. Then there's a session on2/2/62 mastered at a much later date with Arkansas (version 2), andtwo takes of Mojo Man. That's seven tracks, but five 'songs.'The 1963 session that yielded Who Do You Love & Bo Diddley has four +Jerry Penfound, but no Garth. It adds Roy Buchanan and King Curtis.
Before that you're into three (Rick, Robbie, Levon) plus Jerry. 5tracks from 18/9/61, five from 13/9/61, one from 15/9/61. There isn'ta keyboard player listed on these at all. Go back earlier and you getjust Levon & Robbie, and earlier still, just Levon.
--from The Band guestbook, November 2011
Tracks
Disc 1
| 1. | Ruby Baby | |
| 2. | Forty Days | |
| 3. | Horace | |
| 4. | One of These Days | |
| 5. | Whatcha Gonna Do | |
| 6. | Wild Little Willy | |
| 7. | Mary Lou | (233K) |
| 8. | Oh Sugar | |
| 9. | Odessa | |
| 10. | Need Your Lovin' | |
| 11. | Red Hot | |
| 12. | Dizzy Miss Lizzy | (249K) |
| 13. | Hay Ride | |
| 14. | C-Riff Rock | |
| 15. | Baby Jean | (239K) |
| 16. | Southern Love | |
| 17. | Someone Like You | |
| 18. | Hey Boba Lou | |
| 19. | Love Me Like You Can | |
| 20. | You Cheated, You Lied | |
| 21. | Dreams Do Come True | |
| 22. | Lonely Hours | |
| 23. | Clara | |
| 24. | Honey Don'T | |
| 25. | Sick And Tired | |
| 26. | Ballad of Caryl Chessman | |
| 27. | Summertime | |
| 28. | You Know I Love You |
Disc 2
| 1. | Sexy Ways | |
| 2. | Come Love | |
| 3. | Searchin' | |
| 4. | Honey Love | |
| 5. | I Feel Good | |
| 6. | Suzie-Q | |
| 7. | Matchbox | |
| 8. | What a Party | |
| 9. | Bo Diddley | |
| 10. | Who Do You Love | (245K) |
| 11. | Bossman | |
| 12. | High Blood Pressure | |
| 13. | There's a Screw Loose | |
| 14. | Arkansas | |
| 15. | Mojo Man | |
| 16. | Further on up the Road | |
| 17. | Nineteen Years Old | |
| 18. | Kathy Jean | |
| 19. | Mojo Man | |
| 20. | Sexy Ways | |
| 21. | Ruby Baby | |
| 22. | Forty Days | |
| 23. | Hay Ride | |
| 24. | Light in the Window | |
| 25. | My Heart Cries | |
| 26. | Look for Me | |
| 27. | Love It up | |
| 28. | Your Love Is What I Need | |
| 29. | Kansas City |
Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks: The Roulette Years - 1995 - Sequel Records, UK, WED CD 266
Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks The Roulette Years Dvd
