"This beautifully packaged 50th-anniversary box set offers a brighter, sharper mix than past reissues, so you can really hear the lust in "Chest Fever," the sorrow in "Long Black Veil" and the half-past-dead blues in "The Weight." There's also an insightful essay by Rolling Stone`s David Fricke, and a new a cappella edit of "I Shall Be Released" that shines a lovely spotlight on Richard Manuel's falling-angel falsetto. If you love the Band, it's mostly nothing you haven't heard a couple thousand times before, but little else is needed. A half-century later, the brotherhood of Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Manuel and Garth Hudson still makes you want to join the party"