All Songs Considered

Why 'Music From Big Pink' Matters 50 Years Later

08.14.2018 - By NPRPlay

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Let's go back 50 years to a basement outside Woodstock New York — to the formation of a sound and an album that all these years later still shapes the musical landscape. The album is Music From Big Pink and the band is simply called The Band.

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