Peter Viney on "The Weight"Revised version, 2. This version comes nearly ten years after the.

Jawbone magazine, and over those years I’ve had a steady. They. accelerated when the use of ‘The Weight’ in a Cingular/ATT ad brought the song back into people’s consciousness in.

What was once an article by me has been expanded into a. Call it the “Remastered Expanded. Version With Bonus Tracks”. Many thanks to all those who sent. I’ve tried to include. I’m. interested in the pictures the song has painted for people over. Robbie Robertson meant.

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I’ve been told before that my interpretations. I expect them to be. Any literary. analyst crawling for a let- out when caught out in nonsense will point. The. lyrics are transcribed from the DVD- Audio version. Music From Big. Pink, which has on screen lyrics and they differ slightly from those. Band site, which were taken from the sheet music.

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I have. followed the line breaks on the DVD- Audio. As the remastered. DVD- Audio was done by Robbie Robertson, I assume that it is the. Music From Big Pink’s initial success was. Top 1. 00 Rock Albums of All Time. It got to. #3. 0 in the US charts while.

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The Weight, written by. Robbie Robertson, reached only #6. Other artists had. The Weight. Versions by Jackie. De. Shannon (US #5. Aretha Franklin (US #1. April 1. 96. 9. featuring Duane Allman on guitar), The Supremes with The Temptations.

US #4. 6, September 1. Significantly for both. Diana Ross and The. Supremes With The Temptations’ album from which the single. US #2 and the Aretha Franklin album, Soul 6. US #1. 5. The Weight was also heard on the soundtrack.

Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper film Easy Rider in 1. US # 6 in. October 1. The Band agreed to their.

Smith did a close cover. Dunhill soundtrack album. Versions. also appeared on contemporary albums by Bloomfield and Kooper (Live. Adventures of Bloomfield & Kooper ), Spooky Tooth (a very. The. Staple Singers and King Curtis. Virtually every cover cuts out a.

Four hit singles as well as its presence on even more. In the UK the original single was more. September. 2. 8 1. In other words, the Band were not solely responsible for. The Weight is the centrepiece of the album, both. First, Robbie Robertson on The Weight.

Robbie Robertson: I just wrote it. It’s just one of those things. I thought of a couple of words that led to a couple more, and the. I knew I wrote the song. That song was the only song on.

Music From Big Pink’ that we never did rehearse. We just. figured that it was a simple song, and when it came up we gave it a. We said that’s fine. We didn’t even know if we were going.

Robbie Robertson: When I wrote ‘The Weight’, the first song. Music From Big Pink’, it had a kind of American.

I was reinventing using my connection to the universal. The Nazareth in ‘The Weight’ was Nazareth. Pennsylvania. It was a little off- handed - ‘I pulled into. Nazareth’. Well I don’t know if the Nazareth that Jesus. I do know that you.

Nazareth, Pennsylvania! I’m experimenting with North.

American mythology. I didn’t mean to take sacred, precious. On the album, The Weight closes side one, so. Robertson must mean it was the first song written for Big Pink. Robbie Robertson: (Buñuel) did so many films on the. People trying to be good in ‘Viridiana’.

Nazarin’, people trying to do their thing. In ‘The. Weight’ it’s the same thing. People like Buñuel.

In Buñuel there. were these people trying to be good and it’s impossible to be. In ‘The Weight’ it was this very simple thing. Someone says, ‘Listen, would you do me this favour? When you. get there will you say “hello” to somebody or will you.

Oh? You’re going to Nazareth, that’s where the. Do me a favour when you’re there.’ This is. Watch Sacrament Download. So the guy goes and one thing leads to. Holy Shit, what’s this. I’ve only come here to say “hello” for. I’ve got myself in this incredible predicament.’.

It was very Buñuelish to me at the time. The Weight has been painting pictures for me for. Pennsylvania. My Nazareth is. Neighbouring. towns might be called Jerusalem or Babylon … or Jericho (which. Band’s comeback album title. Carmen and the devil are strutting their stuff in red silk.

Chester. is the town character straight out of the TV series Gunsmoke. Dodge City in the 1. Gunsmoke ran from 1. TV. Chester Goode was the name of the deputy marshall in the. In the TV series, Chester had a.

As he limped after the town marshall, Matt Dillon, he. Marshall Dillon!’, ‘Marshall.

Dillon!’ (Marshall Dylan! Marshall Dylan? 5). Carmen might be the programme’s. Miss Kitty, who owned the. Longbranch Saloon - a tart with a heart. Old Luke’s another.

TV series this time) whose rockin’. The Cannonball steams into the station, a great. Pure Americana…. OK, a Cannonball summons up a streamlined 1. Wabash Cannonball, and a wild. Carmen wouldn’t be invited ‘Come on let’s go. I see wouldn’t. distinguish between town and downtown. Chester caught the narrator.

John. Simon, who produced the album says that ‘Crazy Chester’. Band. 6. Levon Helm maintains that everyone in the song was known to them. Levon Helm: The song was full of our favorite characters.

Luke’. was Jimmy Ray Paulman (of The Hawks). Young Anna Lee’. was Anna Lee Williams from Turkey Scratch. Crazy Chester’. was a guy we all knew from Fayetteville who came into town on. Saturdays wearing a full set of cap guns on his hips … he was. Hopalong Cassidy and a friend of The Hawk’s. This was confirmed by a website post from Arkansas.

Fayetteville: My. Crazy Chester. Chester used to walk. He wore a cheap red dime- store cowboy hat and wore his. He knew everyone, and. It amazes me that I've been singing along with the. I'm just now learning that. The Band. frequented the Iris Hotel, Tastee Freeze and the Rockwood Club here.

Fayetteville. My mom in law was a waitress at the Rockwood and has. Crazy Chester is from here too! Everyone here knows. WOW! Robbie has acknowledged that characters in songs had. TV interview, when asked if there really was.

Chester and a Bessie, that “each. This is how most novelists work too. Levon’s quote places Luke in the Wild West as. Wild West. It doesn’t matter. Other people. place the town in the post war Deep South.

Mike Chivers: My. Post Civil war venue when everything is screwed.

I considered the. Miss Moses" was a. Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who returned south. Old Luke" would. be a slave not interested in being delivered from freedom other than. Anna Lee would be a reference to. Luke invites the main character (A white.

Rebel soldier) to stay and keep her "company" as. The lyrics are impressionistic and will live with your. Mike’s picture and whatever. Robbie’s picture and Levon’s pictures might have been.

Pulling into Nazareth. A Time magazine article in 1.

Old Testament character and a. I pulled into Nazareth. Was feelin’ about half past dead. I just need some placewhere I can lay my head‘Hey, Mister can you tell mewhere a man might find a bed?’He just grinned and shook my hand.

And ‘no’ was all he said. It sounds pretty New Testament - no room at the inn.

Nazareth is set in an American landscape. The guy he meets. It might be that a rock musician pulls into Nazareth.

Pennsylvania but if so, Nazareth warps itself into the biblical town. Robbie liked playing with. In Up On Cripple Creek he leaps from Cripple.

Creek (whether the 1. Watch Barely Lethal Megavideo. Colorado gold rush or the Appalachian folk. Lake Charles, Louisiana watching Spike Jones on the box. Robertson lyric, a century or so of chronological time is.

Suddenly we are. involved in it, hearing the contemporary voices, seeing things. And a crucial part of the strategy is that the event tends to. Take a load off Fanny. This chorus is so incredibly well- known, yet readers of. I. thought it was Annie … because later there’s ‘What. Miss Anna Lee’. I had my Annie / Fanny doubts at first. I’ve heard a few interpretations - a Canadian musician. Watch Regeneration Online Hoyts there.

Take a load off Fanny’ was all. English frontal sense of the word ‘fanny’. American posterior one) - Take a load off Fanny/of.

Fanny, and you put the load right on me. The clap is Miss Fanny’s. Of course, being Canadian, he claimed to have. The Band. Twenty years later.