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| | Music CD: Northern Lights-Southern Cross Tracks: Forbidden Fruit, Hobo Jungle, Ophelia, Acadian Driftwood, Ring Your ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The Band had been playing together for years when `Northern Lights, Southern Cross' was recorded. |
 | | Comment: It is well known that by 1975 when this album was recorded, The Band was much less a band than they used to be, not due to loss of talent, but loss of the easygoing friendships that had fueled the first two albums. |
 | | "Northern Lights, Southern Cross" features the same dense, muscular arrangements as previous albums, anchored by Levon Helm's supple, versatile drumming, and the role of lead vocalist is still passed around between Helm, Danko, and Manuel. |
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