Happy Thanksgiving Via The Last Waltz - 2019
Once again we find ourselves partaking in our annual tradition... No...it isn't a Turkey Trot. Nope. That happens sometimes around here, but isn't that what I'm talking about. I'm speaking of the annual watching The Last Waltz on Thanksgiving day. Here on the blog, I've been doing this since 2004. Yeah...15 years ago was the first time I posted a Thanksgiving day video from Levon and the boys. This year's version comes from the studio session during the movie and features Pop Staples and someone that you folks in Chicago have come to know (potentially thanks to Jeff Tweedy!), his daughter Mavis. From the New Yorker : The Band held its last concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976. Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson performed at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and others. The production, staged and filmed by Martin Scorsese (and released, in 1978, as “The La