The Band essays – Track 6 Side 2 – King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

This idea sprang from here.

Track 1 Side 1 - Across the Great Divide is here.
Track 2 Side 1 - Rag Mama Rag is here.
Track 3 Side 1 - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is here.
Track 4 Side 1 - When You Awake is here.
Track 5 Side 1 - Up On Cripple Creek is here.
Track 6 Side 1 - Whispering Pines is here.
Track 1 Side 2 - Jemima Surrender is here. 
Track 2 Side 2 - Rockin’ Chair is here.
Track 3 Side 2 - Look Out Cleveland is here.
Track 4 Side 2 - Jawbone is here.
Track 5 Side 2 - Unfaithful Servant is here.

Come Fall, that’s when life begins. It is not the Springtime
where we kinda think it begins. It is the Fall,
because that's when the harvests come in...

--Robbie Robertson

The best for last. King Harvest is the Band's greatest song. Its epic sweep is almost uncontainable. Woody Guthrie once condensed John Ford's film version of "The Grapes of Wrath" down to 18 verses. King Harvest does the same to John Steinbeck's oeuvre in 4 minutes.