The Band released Stage Fright, their third album, 50 years today (Monday) — August 17th, 1970.
Containing 10 songs, including the title track, “The Shape I’m In,” “The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show” and “Daniel and the Sacred Harp,” it was recorded at the Woodstock Playhouse in Woodstock, New York where the group was based.
The Band’s guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson says the album was a “reaction to a level of adulation that The Band members were unprepared for. It was conceived as a lighter, less serious, more rock and roll type of album.
“The album explored themes such as peace, escape
