Complete List Of The Band Songs From A to Z

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The Band developed a sound that changed the course of American rock music, even though four of its five best-known members came from Canada. Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson drew on blues, gospel, soul, country, folk, and early rock and roll. Their recordings sounded steeped in American musical history without simply recreating the past. The voices of Helm, Manuel, and Danko were especially important, bringing different personalities to songs that still feel remarkable decades later.

The musicians first came together while playing in Ronnie Hawkins’s backing group, the Hawks, during the late 1950s and early 1960s. After going out on their own, they recorded as the Canadian Squires and Levon and the Hawks before working with Bob Dylan during his controversial electric period. Their time with Dylan led to the Woodstock-area recordings later associated with The Basement Tapes. Those sessions helped establish the musical language that listeners would recognize when the group adopted the name The Band.

Their 1968 debut, Music from Big Pink, introduced enduring songs such as “The Weight,” “Tears of Rage,” and “I Shall Be Released.” The following year, The Band delivered “Up on Cripple Creek,” “Rag Mama Rag,” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” Albums including Stage Fright, Cahoots, and Northern Lights – Southern Cross carried the group through the 1970s. They also proved to be a formidable concert act, as documented on Rock of Ages and the farewell concert film and soundtrack The Last Waltz.

Robbie Robertson stopped touring with the group after the 1976 farewell performance, and the original quintet never recorded another studio album together. The Band returned to the road in 1983 without Robertson. Richard Manuel died in 1986, but the remaining musicians continued with a revised lineup that included Jim Weider, Richard Bell, and Randy Ciarlante. The reunion years produced Jericho, High on the Hog, and Jubilation, a final album released in 1998, a year before Rick Danko’s death.

The song collection below covers the ten core studio albums, non-album sides, selected important officially released archival tracks, and material made with Bob Dylan. It also identifies distinctive performances from The Last Waltz and other collaborative releases. Rather than repeating every live performance or remastered version of the same song, the entries emphasize the original releases and recordings with a separate musical identity. The album lists that follow include studio records, live albums, collaborations, and major compilation releases.

Complete List Of The Band Songs From A to Z

0–D

“4% Pantomime” – Cahoots (1971)
“Acadian Driftwood” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“Across the Great Divide” – The Band (1969)
“Ain’t Got No Home” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“Ain’t No More Cane (on the Brazos)” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“Ain’t That a Lot of Love” – Islands (1977)
“All Along the Watchtower (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“All La Glory” – Stage Fright (1970)
“All La Glory (early version)” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Amazon (River of Dreams)” – Jericho (1993)
“Apple Suckling Tree” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Atlantic City” – Jericho (1993)
“Baby Let Me Follow You Down (live)” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Bob Dylan
“Baby Lou” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Back to Memphis” – High on the Hog (1996)
“Back to Memphis (live)” – Live at Watkins Glen (1995)
“Bacon Fat” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Ballad of a Thin Man (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“Beautiful Thing” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Before You Accuse Me” – Stage Fright (50th Anniversary Edition; Calgary 1970 recordings) (2021)
“Bessie Smith” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“Blind Willie McTell” – Jericho (1993)
“Blues Stay Away from Me” – Jericho (1993)
“Book Faded Brown” – Jubilation (1998)
“Bound by Love” – Jubilation (1998)
“Caledonia Mission” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Calgary Blues” – Stage Fright (50th Anniversary Edition; Calgary 1970 recordings) (2021)
“Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (with Bob Dylan)” – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? single (Bob Dylan and Levon and the Hawks) (1965)
“Caravan” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Van Morrison
“The Caves of Jericho” – Jericho (1993)
“Chain Gang” – High on the Hog (2006 expanded reissue) (2006)
“A Change Is Gonna Come” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“Chest Fever” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Christmas Must Be Tonight” – Islands (1977)
“Christmas Must Be Tonight (alternate version)” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“Clothes Line Saga” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Country Boy” – Jericho (1993)
“Coyote” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Joni Mitchell
“Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Crazy Mama” – High on the Hog (1996)
“Crying Heart Blues” – Moondog Matinee (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“Daniel and the Sacred Harp” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Dear Mrs. Roosevelt (live with Bob Dylan)” – A Tribute to Woody Guthrie (1972)
“Deuce and a Quarter” – All the King’s Men (Scotty Moore and D. J. Fontana) (1997)
“Didn’t It Rain” – Moondog Matinee (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“Dirge” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“Don’t Do It” – Rock of Ages (live) (1972)
“Don’t Wait” – Jubilation (1998)
“Don’t Ya Tell Henry” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“Down in the Flood (live with Bob Dylan)” – Rock of Ages (2001 expanded edition) (2001)
“Down South in New Orleans” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Bobby Charles
“Dry Your Eyes” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Neil Diamond

E–J

“Endless Highway (live)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“Endless Highway (studio version)” – Moondog Matinee (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“Evangeline” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978)
“Ferdinand the Imposter” – Music from Big Pink (2000 expanded reissue) (2000)
“Forbidden Fruit” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“Forever Young” – High on the Hog (1996)
“Forever Young (Bob Dylan and The Band studio version)” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“Forever Young (fast version with Bob Dylan)” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“Free Your Mind” – High on the Hog (1996)
“French Girls” – Jubilation (1998)
“Further On Up the Road (Eric Clapton live version)” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Eric Clapton
“Further On Up the Road (Hawks recording)” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“The Genetic Method” – Rock of Ages (live) (1972)
“Georgia on My Mind” – Islands (1977)
“Get Up Jake” – Rock of Ages (live) (1972)
“Get Up Jake (studio version)” – Ain’t Got No Home single (B-side) (1973)
“Go Go Liza Jane” – Go Go Liza Jane / He Don’t Love You single (Levon and the Hawks) (1968)
“Going Back to Memphis” – Moondog Matinee (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“Going, Going, Gone” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“Goin’ to Acapulco” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“The Grand Coulee Dam (live with Bob Dylan)” – A Tribute to Woody Guthrie (1972)
“The Great Pretender” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“Hazel” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“He Don’t Love You (And He’ll Break Your Heart)” – The Stones I Throw / He Don’t Love You single (Levon and the Hawks) (1965)
“Helpless” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Neil Young
“High Cotton” – Jubilation (1998)
“The High Price of Love” – High on the Hog (1996)
“Hobo Jungle” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“Holy Cow” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“Home Cookin’” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Honky Tonk” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“I Ain’t Got No Home (live with Bob Dylan)” – A Tribute to Woody Guthrie (1972)
“I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (live)” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Bob Dylan
“(I Don’t Want to) Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes” – Rock of Ages (live) (1972)
“If I Lose” – Music from Big Pink (2000 expanded reissue) (2000)
“If I Should Fail” – Jubilation (1998)
“I’m Ready” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“I Must Love You Too Much” – High on the Hog (1996)
“In a Station” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“I Shall Be Released” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Islands” – Islands (1977)
“It Ain’t Me, Babe (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“It Makes No Difference” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“I Want to Be the Rainmaker” – A Musical History (archival song sketch) (2005)
“Jawbone” – The Band (1969)
“Jemima Surrender” – The Band (1969)
“Jemima Surrender (early version)” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Jupiter Hollow” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“Just Another Whistle Stop” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (live with Bob Dylan)” – I Want You single (B-side) (1966)

K–O

“Katie’s Been Gone” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“Kentucky Downpour” – Jubilation (1998)
“Key to the Highway” – Music from Big Pink (2000 expanded reissue) (2000)
“King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” – The Band (1969)
“Knockin’ Lost John” – Islands (1977)
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“Last of the Blacksmiths” – Cahoots (1971)
“Last Train to Memphis” – Jubilation (1998)
“The Last Waltz Refrain” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978)
“Lay Lady Lay (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“Leave Me Alone” – Uh-Uh-Uh / Leave Me Alone single (Canadian Squires) (1965)
“Let the Night Fall” – Islands (1977)
“Life Is a Carnival” – Cahoots (1971)
“Like a Rolling Stone (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“Livin’ in a Dream” – Islands (1977)
“Lo and Behold!” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Lonesome Suzie” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Lonesome Suzie (alternate take)” – Music from Big Pink (2000 expanded reissue) (2000)
“Long Black Veil” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Long Distance Operator” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“Look Out Cleveland” – The Band (1969)
“Loving You (Is Sweeter Than Ever)” – Rock of Ages (2001 expanded edition; live) (2001)
“Mannish Boy” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Muddy Waters
“Million Dollar Bash” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Mojo Hannah” – Stage Fright (50th Anniversary Edition; Calgary 1970 recordings) (2021)
“The Moon Struck One” – Cahoots (1971)
“Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“Move Me” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Move to Japan” – Jericho (1993)
“Mystery Train” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“Never Say Goodbye” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” – The Band (1969)
“Nineteen Years Old” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Not Fade Away” – Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly) (1996)
“Nothing Was Delivered” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Odds and Ends” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“On a Night Like This” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“One Too Many Mornings (The Band recording)” – Tangled Up in Blues: Songs of Bob Dylan (1999)
“Open the Door, Homer” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Ophelia” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“Out of the Blue” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978)

P–T

“Please, Mrs. Henry” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Promised Land” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“Rag Mama Rag” – The Band (1969)
“Rags and Bones” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (live with Bob Dylan)” – Before the Flood (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1974)
“Ramble Jungle” – High on the Hog (1996)
“Remedy” – Jericho (1993)
“Right as Rain” – Islands (1977)
“Ring Your Bell” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)
“The River Hymn” – Cahoots (1971)
“Robbie’s Blues” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Rockin’ Chair” – The Band (1969)
“Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” – Stage Fright (50th Anniversary Edition; Calgary 1970 recordings) (2021)
“Ruben Remus” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“The Rumor” – Stage Fright (1970)
“The Saga of Pepote Rouge” – Islands (1977)
“Same Thing” – Jericho (1993)
“Saved” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“Shakin’” – Moondog Matinee (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“The Shape I’m In” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Share Your Love (With Me)” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“She Knows” – High on the Hog (1996)
“Shine a Light” – Jericho (1993)
“Shoot Out in Chinatown” – Cahoots (1971)
“Sleeping” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Slippin’ and Slidin’ (live)” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Smoke Signal” – Cahoots (1971)
“Something There Is About You” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“Spirit of the Dance” – Jubilation (1998)
“Stage Fright” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Stand Up” – High on the Hog (1996)
“The Stones I Throw (Will Free All Men)” – The Stones I Throw / He Don’t Love You single (Levon and the Hawks) (1965)
“Strawberry Wine” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Street Walker” – Islands (1977)
“Stuff You Gotta Watch” – Jericho (1993)
“Such a Night” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Dr. John
“Tears of Rage” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Tell Me, Momma (live with Bob Dylan)” – The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966 (1998)
“Theme from The Last Waltz” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978)
“Thinkin’ Out Loud” – Cahoots (1971)
“Third Man Theme” – Moondog Matinee (1973)
“This Wheel’s on Fire” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Time to Kill” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Tiny Montgomery” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“To Kingdom Come” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Too Much of Nothing” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“Too Soon Gone” – Jericho (1993)
“Tough Mama” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“Tura Lura Lural (That’s an Irish Lullaby)” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Van Morrison
“Twilight” – Acadian Driftwood single (B-side) (1975)
“Twilight (early alternate version)” – Northern Lights – Southern Cross (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“Two Piano Song” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)

U–Z

“Uh-Uh-Uh” – Uh-Uh-Uh / Leave Me Alone single (Canadian Squires) (1965)
“The Unfaithful Servant” – The Band (1969)
“Up on Cripple Creek” – The Band (1969)
“Volcano” – Cahoots (1971)
“We Can Talk” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“Wedding Song” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“The Weight” – Music from Big Pink (1968)
“The Weight (with the Staple Singers)” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack; studio re-recording) (1978)
“The Well” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978)
“What Am I Living For” – Moondog Matinee (2001 expanded reissue) (2001)
“When I Paint My Masterpiece” – Cahoots (1971)
“When You Awake” – The Band (1969)
“Where Do We Go from Here?” – Cahoots (1971)
“Where I Should Always Be” – High on the Hog (1996)
“Whispering Pines” – The Band (1969)
“White Cadillac” – Jubilation (1998)
“Who Do You Love” – The Last Waltz (soundtrack) (1978), with Ronnie Hawkins
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Words and Numbers” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show” – Stage Fright (1970)
“Yankee Swamp” – Meetings with Remarkable Friends (Artie Traum) (1999)
“Yazoo Street Scandal” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), The Band performance
“Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” – The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975), Bob Dylan and The Band
“You Angel You” – Planet Waves (Bob Dylan, backed by The Band) (1974)
“You Don’t Come Through” – A Musical History (archival box set) (2005)
“Young Blood” – Till the Night Is Gone: A Tribute to Doc Pomus (1995)
“You See Me” – Jubilation (1998)

The Band Studio Albums

Music from Big Pink (1968)

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The Band (1969)

Stage Fright (1970)

Cahoots (1971)

Moondog Matinee (1973)

Northern Lights – Southern Cross (1975)

Islands (1977)

Jericho (1993)

High on the Hog (1996)

Jubilation (1998)

The Band Official Live Albums and Live Releases

Rock of Ages (1972)

Before the Flood (with Bob Dylan) (1974)

The Last Waltz (live soundtrack and studio suite) (1978)

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: The Best of The Band Live in Concert (1990)

Live at Watkins Glen (1995)

The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966 (with Bob Dylan) (1998)

The Last Waltz (expanded box set) (2002)

Live at the Academy of Music 1971 (2013)

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, June 1971 (Stage Fright 50th Anniversary Edition) (2021)

Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, May 1971 (Cahoots 50th Anniversary Edition) (2021)

The Band Compilation Albums and Box Sets

The Best of The Band (1976)

Anthology (1978)

To Kingdom Come: The Definitive Collection (1989)

Across the Great Divide (1994)

The Best of The Band, Vol. II (1999)

Greatest Hits (2000)

A Musical History (2005)

The Best of The Band: A Musical History (2007)

Collected (2013)

Icon (2015)

The Band Collaborative Studio Albums with Bob Dylan

Planet Waves (Bob Dylan with The Band) (1974)

The Basement Tapes (Bob Dylan and The Band) (1975)

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