Times Like These (Rick Danko album)


Times Like These was Band bassist Rick Danko's final album, a posthumous release featuring tracks from a variety of sources dating from an aborted solo project in 1993 to Danko's final live performance in Ann Arbor, Michigan just days before his death.
Those tracks recorded specifically for the project were the title track, "Ripple", "All Our Past Times", "This Wheel's on Fire", "You Can Go Home" and "People of Conscience". Of the remaining four, "Book Faded Brown" and "Let the Four Winds Blow"- the latter sung by Danko cohort Aaron Hurwitz- date from Danko's last live show on December 6, 1999, both featuring posthumous overdubbing by Hurwitz and others. "Chain Gang" dated from the sessions for The Band's High on the Hog album and featured all of the late-period members of The Band except Levon Helm and "Change Is Good" featuring Joe Walsh dated from an aborted 1993 solo project for Elektra Records.

Track listing

  1. "Times Like These" - 4:19
  2. "Ripple" - 5:41
  3. "All Our Past Times" - 3:46
  4. "Book Faded Brown" - 3:12
  5. "Chain Gang" - 4:10
  6. "Change Is Good" - 4:10
  7. "Sip the Wine" - 5:19
  8. "This Wheel's on Fire" - 5:06
  9. "You Can Go Home" - 5:34
  10. "Let the Four Winds Blow" - 3:22
  11. "People of Conscience" - 4:10

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