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A conversation with Robbie Robertson

All Songs Considered

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How to Communicate Musically

"It's quite different from everything that we had ever done ever," he says. "We got rid of the baffles. We set up in a circle. We could see one another." The first song they recorded was Cheers of Rage, written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel. A&R engineer: "This is going to sound terrible, horrible ... it's going to be nothing but leakage"

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