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Read 10 things you likely didn't know about 'Music From Big Pink,' the Band's highly influential 1968 debut.
The Band released 'Music From Big Pink,' their celebrated debut album, on July 1, 1968.
In the midst of the country's turbulence in 1968, five musicians later named simply The Band hunkered down in a salmon-colored house in upstate New York to craft Music From Big Pink, an album that ...
The Band’s ‘Music From Big Pink’ Turns 50: How Upstate New York Informed the Americana Classic When Rick Danko discovered the ranch house, located about five miles out of Woodstock, NY, in ...
Beyond its myth or this questionable new remix, the debut album from the Band made roots music sound as impressionistic and idiosyncratic as any other kind of rock’n’roll. It was revolutionary.
The Beginnings of the Band: Getting Started, Meeting Bob Dylan, and ‘Music From Big Pink’ 'We had never heard of Bob Dylan,' says drummer Levon Helm. 'But he had heard of us.
Released on this day in 1968, MOJO retraces the making of The Band’s seismic debut album, Music From Big Pink.
Take the section during the recording of "Music from Big Pink" when The Band was bringing the American roots classic “The Weight” to fruition.
Garth Hudson, Organist for The Band, Dies at 87 The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on “Chest Fever,” gave the group a “sound twice as big” and his mates music lessons.
The last original member of the Band died this week at 87. In 2014, RS accompanied him on a visit to the upstate New York home where the group recorded The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan ...
Rolling Stone called them “the band from Big Pink,” which I quite like myself. Music from Big Pink came out in 1968, and it’s one of the most important debut records of its time and all time.