Stage Fright (album)

Stage Fright
Studio album by The Band
Released	August 17, 1970
Recorded	May–June 1970 at Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock, New York
Genre	Roots rock
Length	35:41
Label	Capitol
Producer	The Band
The Band chronology
The Band (1969) Stage Fright (1970) Cahoots (1971)
Singles from Stage Fright
"Stage Fright/Sleeping" Released: August 1970 "Time to Kill/The Shape I'm In" Released: October 1970

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B+[2]
MusicHound	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Stage Fright is the third studio album by Canadian-American group the Band released in 1970. Much more of a rock album than its predecessors, it was a departure from their previous two efforts in that its tone was darker and featured less of the harmony vocal blend that had been a centerpiece of those two albums. It also included the last two recordings by the Band of new songs credited to pianist Richard Manuel; both were co-written with guitarist Robbie Robertson, who would continue to be the group's dominant lyricist until the group disbanded in 1976. Nonetheless, the tradition of switching instruments that had begun on the previous album continued here, with each musician contributing instrumental parts on at least two different instruments.

Engineered by an up-and-coming Todd Rundgren, and produced by the group themselves for the first time, the album was recorded at the Woodstock Playhouse in their homebase of Woodstock, New York. The album featured an insert which became popular as a fold-out poster. The insert image was shot by photographer Norman Seeff.

Two different mixes of the album were prepared, one in the US by Rundgren and one in the UK by Glyn Johns. The Johns mix was selected for the original LP release and all subsequent reissues on Capitol (including the expanded 2000 remaster), while Rundgren's mix was eventually released on a 24k gold CD reissue of the album by the DCC Compact Classics label in 1994.^[5]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead Vocals	Length
1.	"Strawberry Wine"	Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson	Helm	2:34
2.	"Sleeping"	Robertson, Richard Manuel	Manuel	3:10
3.	"Time to Kill"	Robertson	Rick Danko, Manuel	3:24
4.	"Just Another Whistle Stop"	Manuel, Robertson	Manuel	3:48
5.	"All La Glory"	Robertson	Helm	3:31

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead Vocals	Length
1.	"The Shape I'm In"	Robertson	Manuel	3:58
2.	"The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show"	Robertson	Helm, Danko	2:58
3.	"Daniel and the Sacred Harp"	Robertson	Helm, Manuel	4:06
4.	"Stage Fright"	Robertson	Danko	3:40
5.	"The Rumor"	Robertson	Danko, Helm, Manuel [6]	4:13

Bonus track listing from 2000 re-release

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Daniel and the Sacred Harp (Alternate take)"	5:01
12.	"Time to Kill (Alternate mix)"	3:26
13.	"The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show (Alternate mix)"	3:05
14.	"Radio Commercial"	1:05

Personnel

• Rick Danko – bass, fiddle, vocals
• Levon Helm – drums, guitar, percussion, vocals
• Garth Hudson – organ, electric piano, accordion, tenor saxophone
• Richard Manuel – piano, organ, drums, clavinet, vocals
• Robbie Robertson – guitars, autoharp

Additional personnel

• Todd Rundgren – mixing and recording engineer
• Glyn Johns – mixing engineer
• John Simon – baritone saxophone on "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show"

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1970	Pop Albums	5

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1970	"Time To Kill"	Pop Singles	77

References

1. link
2. link
3. Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds) (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 72. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
4. Brackett, Nathan, with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 42. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
5. "Stage Fright". Theband.hiof.no. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
6. http://theband.hiof.no/albums/stage_fright.html