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Moondog Matinee is the fifth studio album by Canadian/American rock group the Band, released in 1973. It consists entirely of cover material reflecting the group's love of R&B and blues music, with one exception in their interpretation of the theme from the film The Third Man. In a 2002 interview, Levon Helm described the reasoning for recording an album of covers: "That was all we could do at the time. We couldn't get along—we all knew that fairness was a bunch of shit. We all knew we were getting screwed, so we couldn't sit down and create no more music. 'Up on Cripple Creek' and all that stuff was over—all that collaboration was over, and that type of song was all we could do." At the same time, Helm argued that people could not accurately evaluate the Band or anyone else as performers when they were performing original material. "When they're doing their own stuff, you can't tell how good they are or how good they ain't. You let both of us do a Chuck Berry tune, then you can tell how good the bands are..." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
