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Bowman rated "Acadian Driftwood" as "one of Robertson's finest compositions, equal to anything else the Band ever recorded." [2] According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Kemp, "Acadian Driftwood" is one of three songs on Northern Lights – Southern Cross, along with "Ophelia" and "It Makes No Difference," on which "Robertson reclaims his reputation as one of rock's great ...
Three songs from the album – "It Makes No Difference", "Ophelia" and "Acadian Driftwood" – were performed at The Last Waltz, the group's 1976 penultimate stage performance of all five members. "It Makes No Difference" and "Ophelia" were included in the film and on the original 1978 soundtrack album , and "Acadian Driftwood" was included in ...
Like his songs, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Acadian Driftwood", he touched on history that connects to his life and family. The Battle of Wounded Knee and the near-extinction of the bison are outlined in the song "Ghost Dance". [158] He won a Juno Award for Producer of the Year. [139]
Hoskyns considers it and "Acadian Driftwood" to be "the most moving songs Robertson had written in five years." [1] Allmusic critic Rob Bowman claims that it "might be the best romantic ballad ever done by the group." [6] The Sarasota Herald-Tribune described the song as "poignant" and praised its eloquence as being worthy of a Grammy Award. [7]
Endless Highway: The Music of The Band (429 Records/SLG Music/EMI, 2007). The Roches perform the Band classic "Acadian Driftwood". Please Give (2010). The Roches sing "No Shoes" by Paranoid Larry. Amen & Goodbye (2016). Suzzy appears on the songs "I Am Chemistry," "Half Asleep," and "Gerson's Whistle" on the fourth album by the Brooklyn indie ...
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
"Acadian Driftwood" performed by the Roches – 6:20 "The Unfaithful Servant" performed by Rosanne Cash – 4:56 "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) performed by Josh Turner – 5:03 "Life Is a Carnival" (Danko, Levon Helm, Robertson) performed by Trevor Hall – 4:09 "Look Out Cleveland" performed by Jackie Greene – 3:13
At the start of the song he's hauling logs off a mountain and at the end he may be weighing options: "rolling in" to home base for a new cargo or seeing his Bessie again. One verse has the singer and Bessie listening to and commenting on the music of 1940s and 1950s bandleader Spike Jones. Robertson said of Jones, "I was a Spike Jones admirer.