1. “I Shall Be Released” from Music From Big Pink (1968) The Band mostly moved on from their reliance on Bob Dylan’s songwriting excellence by the time their second album rolled around.

In a remote house called Big Pink, a motley band of multi ... of their masterpiece, Music From Big Pink. In memory of the groups' virtuoso secret weapon Garth Hudson, who has sadly passed away aged 87 ...

Robbie Robertson, the Band’s guitarist and songwriter in the group’s years of stardom (who himself passed away in August of 2023 ), offered a far more effusive assessment of what Hudson brought to the ...

In 1968, the five musicians became simply known as The Band and released Music From Big Pink, which Rolling Stone in 2003 listed as No. 34 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band whose farewell show with the group was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary ...

Hudson’s recordings served as the basis of both for the seminal Dylan and the Band album “The Basement Tapes,” officially released in 1975, and “Music From Big Pink,” the Band’s 1967 d ...

The Band recorded its first album, “Music From Big Pink,” in 1968. With the release of a follow-up, “The Band,” in 1969, the group’s distinctive mix of rock, r&b and country became a ...

In 1966, they backed Dylan on his first and highly controversial tour with a full electric band. And after changing their name to The Band, they made a huge impact with Music From Big Pink and a ...

Rolling Stone called them “the band from Big Pink,” which I quite like myself. Music from Big Pink came ... their seventh studio album (which fulfilled their contract with Capitol).

In 1968, the Band released Music From Big Pink, featuring Hudson’s organ showcase “Chest Fever.” His virtuosic playing was threaded all throughout the album and future Band recordings ...

With no album planned, they wrote and played spontaneously ... Dylan resurfaced in late 1967 with the austere "John Wesley Harding," and the Band debuted soon after with "Music from Big Pink," its ...