Stage Fright (Album)

Occupation

Stage Fright is the third studio album by the Canadian folk and country - rock group The Band. It was released on August 17, 1970 to the label, Capitol Records. By the critics, the album was mostly well received, even if it is in retrospect mostly overshadowed by the classic status of its two predecessors. However, Stage Fright had better chart positions than the other albums of the band. In the U.S. Billboard charts, the album peaked at No. 5 in the UK until 15th place

Stylistically, Stage Fright is oriented more on rock than the first two albums of the band. The atmosphere of the album was darker, and the vocal harmonies that had characterized the earlier recordings, were pushed aside. Robbie Robertson has established itself increasingly as the main songwriter of the group. Richard Manuel, however, appeared Stage Fright the last time in the songwriting credits of an album the band on.

Stage Fright was the first album of the band, on which each of the musicians played at least two instruments. Also it was the first album of the group, which produced the five musicians themselves. John Simon, who had produced the first two Band albums, appeared only on one track, The WS Walcott Medicine Show, as a guest musician on. Todd Rundgren acted on Stage Fright as a sound engineer.

In October 1970, Time to Kill was released as a single with The Shape I'm In the B-side. The song was on the Billboard charts rather limited success, in which he reached his climax with number 77. The UK Top 40 is not the single reached.

Track list

A-side

B-side

Republication

On August 29, 2000 Capitol released the album on CD with the following bonus tracks:

Record label Genre Country-Rock Bass guitar Vielle Singing John Simon (record producer) Cahoots (album) Rock music
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