Album Review: Cahoots [50th Anniversary Edition] by The Band

The Band knew they'd made a dud. Richard Manuel was in the throes of addiction and had stopped writing altogether. Robbie Robertson--who, by 1971, was tasked with churning out all of the Band's material--found himself battling an intense bout of writer's block, which sapped his passion for the project. So the Band didn't have any completed songs to take into the studio with them, which was fine because the studio itself was barely finished.

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