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), it featured two tracks from the first,

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and seventh albums, one each from the fourth and fifth, rounded out by the 1976 single "Twilight". ''

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'' said that "Twilight" "evokes the spirit of some of the group's finer moments."

Track listing

Album origin

An album of the same title was released in UK on the Fame label with different cover and some different tracks.

Notes

The Band's version of the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was also featured as part of a promotional-only compilation album released by Capitol Records entitled ''The Greatest Music Ever Sold'' (Capitol SPRO-8511/8512), which was distributed to record stores during the 1976 Holiday season as part of Capitol's "Greatest Music Ever Sold" campaign which promoted 15 greatest hits albums issued by the record label.

References

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