Track Listing
1. Tears Of Rage
2. To Kingdom Come
3. In A Station
4. Caledonia Mission
5. Weight, The
6. We Can Talk
7. Long Black Veil
8. Chest Fever
9. Lonesome Suzie
10. This Wheel's On Fire
11. I Shall Be Released
| Details | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Multi | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Band: Richard Manuel (vocals, keyboards); Rick Danko (vocals, bass); Levon Helm (vocals, drums); Robbie Robertson (guitar); Garth Hudson (keyboards).
Producer: John Simon.
Reissue producers: Cheryl Pawelski, Andrew Sandoval.
Engineers include: Don Hahn, Tony May, Rex Updegraft.
Recorded at Big Pink, West Saugerties, New York.
Originally released on Capitol (7777 46069).
Includes liner notes by Rob Bowman.
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
The Band: Robbie Robertson (vocals, guitar); Rick Danko (vocals, bass guitar); Levon Helm (vocals, drums, percussion); Garth Hudson (piano, organ, keyboards, background vocals); Richard Manuel (piano, organ).
The Band emerged from months of seclusion with this enthralling debut album. It followed a lengthy spell accompanying Bob Dylan, which culminated in sessions known as THE BASEMENT TAPES. Three songs herein were revived from those recordings, and the remainder showed a similar pastoral spirit. Where contemporaries sought expression in progressive music, the Band were largely reflective, creating atmosphere from traditional forms and distilling the results in an economic style. Their ensemble playing and rural voices were best captured on "The Weight," an elliptical composition which displayed their craft to perfection. Americana of every hue can be gleaned from this collection, the depth of which left a marked impression on audiences and musicians alike.
Editorial Reviews
5 stars out of 5 - ...[One] of rock's few perfect albums, [an] immaculate reflection of [its] times [with] master fictions told with the spit and color of a fur trapper's memoirs...the bonus tracks are sweet gravy...
Rolling Stone (08/31/2000)
5 stars out of 5 - ...Almost anonymously shifted the boundaries for what rock might aspire to be....it's still a collection to rake the breath away...
Q (10/01/2000)
...[One] of the best albums in rock history....These remasterings sound incredibly rich, and each has alternate takes....this is reissuing done right. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (09/01/2000)
...In its mixture of the mundane and the weird, of traditional and avant-garde gestures, BIG PINK retains all of that original transfixing magic...
Mojo (10/01/2000)
...Brilliant....enhancing one's admiration for [their] achievements...
No Depression (09/01/2000)
...Austere yet fascinating, enduringly impressive both as an aesthetic manifesto and a wonderfully understated display of controlled artistry, MUSIC FROM BIG PINK remains a landmark recording which no serious collector can be without...
Uncut (09/01/2001)
4.5 stars out of 5 - ...Invoking the experience of working-class folks through music and words...[this] overflowed with distinctive singing and musicianship...
Down Beat (10/01/2001)
Ranked #34 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...An instant homespun classic...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
4 stars (out of 5) - 1968 melange...laced with staggeringly affecting singing....For lovers of Deserter's Songs, the album and the things.
Q (08/01/1999)
.MUSIC FROM BIG PINK is an event and should be treated as one...This album was recorded in approximately two weeks...There are people who will work their lives away in vain and not touch it. - Al Kooper
Rolling Stone (08/10/1968)
Goldmine 5 Stars - Excellent
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