Danko/Manuel chords by Drive-By Truckers

from: http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/drivebytruckers-dirtysouth.shtml by Adrian Begrand. Nobody can say it any better than Adrian already has said, and I quote: ¨Watching Martin Scorsese's 1978 film The Last Waltz on DVD, the sadness is inescapable. When you see the 1978 film, which documents The Band's final concert on Thanksgiving Night, 1976, you couldn't care less about the nattily-clad Robbie Robertson and his clean-cut rock star posing; rather, you find yourself drawn to the two guys over to Robertson's right. You smile as pianist Richard Manuel sings self-effacingly on "The Shape I'm In", and you get goosebumps when bassist Rick Danko takes a solo turn on the astonishingly beautiful "It Makes No Difference", and damn, if it isn't next to impossible to prevent tears from welling up when you see Manuel and Danko asked by Scorsese what they're going to do next, and the poor guys have no idea. Performing was what they did, the road their home. They'd been doing it for more than a decade, and that bastard Robertson was yanking their world from beneath their feet. Richard Manuel hung himself in 1986. Rick Danko battled heroin addiction, and died in his sleep in 1999. Following in the footsteps of The Band, the Drive-By Truckers are today's version of rock 'n' roll journeymen, touring with a relentlessness that few independent bands can match, playing marathon shows night after night. While the tandem of hardened veterans, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, have been doing this for ages now, third singer/guitarist Jason Isbell is the "kid" of the band, having joined a couple years ago, and in "Danko/Manuel", his astounding, heartwrenching tribute to his dead heroes in The Band, he wonders aloud if he's made for this kind of life, singing a voice that's eerily similar to a certain guy from Simcoe, Ontario, "They say Danko would have sounded just like me/Is that the man I want to be?" ¨ End Quote Thanks Trukers, and thanks Adrian for that trip back through memory lane! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.