The Band

Music From Big Pink bumps and bounces with all that came before it and nothing that was to come after it -- because nothing like it ever did. A tragic, hilarious trip through the history of American music, this record positively breathes. In one motion the Band created and sealed forever a genre all their own.

>Every year since 1963 we have all singled out one album to sum up what happened that
year. It was usually the Beatles with their double barrels of rubber souls, revolvers and
peppers. Dylan has sometimes contended with his frontrunning electric albums. Six months
are left is this proselytizing year of music; we can expect a new Beatles, Stones, Hendrix,
perhaps even a mate for J W Harding; but I have chosen my album for 1968. Musi... More >