So much of The Band’s essence can be found in the instrumental introduction to ‘Tears of Rage’—the lead voice of the guitar so integral to the whole; the floating sustained organ; the interplay of the bass and the drum and the rhythm piano providing an implicit rhythm created as much by the gaps as by the beats, as intimate as lovers, as self-effacing as monks, as synchronized as guys who have been on the road together for six years.
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156: Nilsson, ‘Without Her’
Nilsson’s first album is virtually unknown, but John Lennon listened to it for 36 hours straight. Try listening only this song just once – a bass, a cello, and one magical, gravity-defying voice. You can’t do that.
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