The Band - Music from Big Pink
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Free Music Review: Essential
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the greats, absolute must have. Also needed to accompany this is Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" and "The Basement Tapes". Beside these 3 albums the rest seems no more than background noise. Songwriting, singing, musicianship par excellence, how come it has gone so far down in the USA since this? Maybe because these musicians were from Canada in the first place?
PS some of the best tracks on this CD IMHO are those missing from original vinyl - "Yazoo Street Scandal", "Katie's Been Gone", "Long Distance Operator", "Orange Juice Blues" - so even if you have the original vinyl, lucky person, you need this CD too :)
Free Music Review: Music from Who Knows Where
Hit: 5 Stars
It was always a close call whether this or the Band's 2nd album was their classic. This reissue and expansion presses the question to the point of impossible resolution. Not only do the outtakes enrich the release, but the remastering clearly improves the sound quality, making it much more dimensional and uncannily clear.
Time has also made it easier to assess this breakout album. It is still unclassifiable in the rock pantheon in which it finds itself. These are guys who went everywhere, heard everything, and play an incredible assortment of instruments well. They came of age when rock combos filled the juke joints and honky tonks, so yeah, you will find their work in the rock bin. In another era it might have been in the country bin, or the folk bin. At times, it sounds like each -- when it doesn't sound like old time carnival music, soul music, church music, even classical music.
For the genesis of this music is deeper than any of these categories. It goes as far back as the first European settlers on the continent; for the ultimate take on this subject consult Greil Marcus' Mystery Train and his essay inside The Basement Tapes. Simply, the music here comes from the mine that the oldest bi-racial folk tales such as Stackalee come from, where also you will find major authors such as Faulkner and Twain poaching when they try to give you a take on early times in America. Some of the stories come out like legends or folk tales, coherently told -- like Long Black Veil. All of it is in clearcut root English, but the closer you listen to some of the songs the more mysterious they become -- what are they even talking about, and who? In our era or 100 years ago? 200? All times in between at once? It is music not from "big pink" but from who knows where, and the band members freely trade the lead singer role back and forth as a song progresses, which only deepens both the wonder and the mystery, as if each of them is tossing on a piece of the whole story only they know.
While all this may sound like an academic exercise, it isn't -- The Band's school was the American road and they kept their eyes and ears wide open, playing separately and as sidemen for years, until they came together and made this. Warning: yes, it may be a bit of an acquired taste. But its well worth the effort, and is not only one of the most important rock records ever cut, but on the short list of important American music from century 20.
Free Music Review: The Album That Changed Music Forever
Hit: 5 Stars
Eric Clapton in the liner notes of Blind Faith's deluxe edition sums it up when he described this album as having the most significant impact on him "whose versatility and harmonious unity seemed blissfully free of the corrosive intensity which had fueled Cream".
Furthermore, The Band's melodic interplay and the subtle textures created by their exotic instruments whose close association with Bob Dylan only deepened his(Clapton's) fascination. No need to add words BUT all the bonus tracks, Basement Tape versions are grand fully reproduced in these high caliber remasters artwork and all.
Free Music Review: Against the Grain of the Times
Hit: 5 Stars
Totally different from anything going on in the rock business in 1968. THis album is like from another time like (the 1920's)but at the same time it sounds like it was done yesterday. A testament to the music contained here. My only complaint about the reissue is the bonus tracks sort of are unnecessary and destroy the flow of the original album.
Free Music Review: simpleza y arrogancia para generar una obra de arte
Hit: 5 Stars
muchas COSAS se han dicho acerca de este disco, del lugar donde fue grabado...que clapton se fue de cream despues de escucharlo..y que se yo cuantas locuras mas...lo unico veradero y realmente palpable es la autenticidad, simpleza, frescura y dejadez que emana cada tema de esta maravillosa placa...tipos crudos, problematicos, maduros, sin asesores de imagen, se refugiaron solamente en la musica y dieron catedra con un disco que desde un sotano alcanzo la nube que ocultaba a BOB DYLAN....ESCUCHALO POR FAVOR!