Music from Big Pink is the band's debut studio album. Released in 1968, it uses a distinctive blend of country, rock, folk, classical, R & amp; B, and soul. The music is partly composed of "Big Pink", a house owned by Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson in West Saugerties, New York. The album itself was recorded in studios in New York and Los Angeles in 1968, and followed the support of Bob Dylan's band on the 1966 tour (as the Hawks) and time spent together in northern New York record material that was officially released in 1975 as The Basement Tapes , also with Dylan. The cover artwork is painted by Dylan.
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The band began to create their distinctive voice during 1967, as they performed improvisations and recorded with Bob Dylan a large number of cover songs and original Dylan material in the basement of the pink house in West Saugerties, New York, located at 56 Parnassus Lane (formerly 2188 Highway). The house was built by Ottmar Gramms, who bought the land in 1952. The house was newly built when Rick Danko found it as a rental. Danko moved with Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel in February 1967. The house became locally known as "Big Pink" for a pink siding. The house was later sold by Gramms in 1977, and since 1998, it has become a private residence.
Although widely booted at the time, the first Dylan and Band recording was officially released in 1975 on The Basement Tapes, and was subsequently released in 2014 at The Basement Tapes Complete Maps Music from Big Pink
Recording
Band Manager Albert Grossman (who is also manager Dylan) approached Capitol Records to secure a record deal for a group that was still informally described as "backing band Dylan". Stanley Gortikov on Capitol signed The Band - originally under the name The Crackers. Armed with news of the record deal for the group, they lured Levon Helm back from the oil rig where he worked, to Woodstock where he took his crucial position in the Band, singing and playing drums. The return of Helm coincides with the fluctuation of activity at Big Pink as an embryonic band that not only recorded with Dylan but also began writing their own songs, led by guitarist Robbie Robertson.
After meeting producer John Simon, the band began recording their debut album in Manhattan at A & amp; R Studios, on the 7th floor of 799 7th Avenue on 52nd Street in the early months of 1968. The band recorded "Tears of Rage", "Chest Fever", "We Can Speak", "The Wheel Is On" and "Weight Loss" in two sessions. Robertson said that when Simon asked them how they wanted to sound, they replied, "As happened in the crypt."
Capitol, delighted with the early recording sessions, suggested that the group move to Los Angeles to finish recording their first album on Capitol Studios. They also cut some material at Gold Star Studios on Santa Monica Boulevard. Songs in Big Pink recorded on L.A. are "In A Station", "To Kingdom Come", "Lonesome Suzie", "Long Black Veil" and "I Be Be Released".
Artwork
Dylan offered to sing on the album, but eventually realized it was important for the Band to make their own statement. Instead, Dylan marked his presence by donating a cover art. Barney Hoskyns has written that it is very important the painting depicts six musicians. The Cover of Music From Big Pink was intended to form the group as having a different view of the psychedelic culture of 1968. Photographer Elliott Landy flew to Toronto to photograph Danko, Manuel, Robertson, and Hudson assembled. family at Danko chicken farm. A photo inserted Diamond and Nell Helm, who lives in Arkansas. The overall picture of the sleeve is by Milton Glaser (who also performs a poster packed with Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 1967).
Reception
The initial critical reception for the album was positive, although the sales were very thin. It received praise for the organic qualities of instrumentation, which have been recorded instantly without overdubbing. In Rolling Stone , Al Kooper's comment on Big Pink ends with the words, "The album was recorded for about two weeks.There are people who will work their lives in vain, and that does not touch it. "which helps draw public attention to it (though Rolling Stone calls them" the band of Big Pink "not just" Bands "). The fact that Bob Dylan wrote one and co-wrote two songs on the album also attracted attention. Robert Christgau is less enthusiastic in The Village Voice . He praised the genuine awakening of the musical "feelings of soul-states without imitating" and "human roughness around the edges", but ultimately found many of it gloomy and dull to be heard, then argued that the lack of musical energy strengthens the "metaphor of impenetrability" of the lyrics.
In 1968, "The Weight" peaked at # 63 on the Hot 100 single Billboard chart in the US. The song was a bigger hit elsewhere, peaking at # 35 in Canada, and # 21 in the UK. The album reached # 30 on the Billboard Pop album chart in 1968, and was repeated again as the # 8 hit on the Top Internet Albums chart of 2000 (see 2000 in music). "The Weight" gained widespread popularity, from Band performance at Woodstock on August 17, 1969 and due in part to being included in the Easy Rider movie, even though it was removed from the soundtrack due to license issues. The cover version by Smith band was included on the soundtrack album instead.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 34 on the list of the greatest 500 album magazines of all time. Rolling Stone . The relaxed feelings of this album attracted the attention of other great artists. For example, Eric Clapton cites the rock rock album style as what convinced him to get out of Cream, and pursued Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and Dominos on his debut album. George Harrison was also impressed by the music of the album and the sense of friendship, and Roger Waters called it "the second most influential record in rock and roll history", after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , and says that it "affects Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply." According to Terry Burrows, the album gave birth to the Americana genre, while music academic Chris Smith said his songs laid the groundwork for root rock music.
The original LP recording problem including the gate cover in 1968, was duplicated 40 years later in 2008 as a 180 gm brake. On compact discs, remastered as a gold CD in 1989, as a DVD-audio in 2001 and as a re-edited version of SACD in 2009. On August 29, 2000, it was reissued by EMI Records as a standard compact disc with nine bonus tracks as well listed below. In 2012, Mobile Fidelity released remastered, numbered, limited edition, Half Speed ​​Mastery from original master cassette, 180g LP pressed at RTI.
Track list
Personnel
- Band
- Rick Danko - bass guitar, violin, vocals
- Levon Helm - drums, tambourine, vocals
- Garth Hudson - organ, piano, clavinet, soprano and tenax saxophone
- Richard Manuel - piano, organ, drums, vocals
- Robbie Robertson - electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
Additional personnel
- John Simon - producer, baritone horn, tenor saxophone, piano
- Don Hahn - engineer
- Tony May - engineer
- Shelly Yakus - engineer
- Bob Dylan - cover paint
- Elliott Landy - photography
Diagram
Album - Billboard (AS)
Single - Billboard (AS)
The Weight peaked at # 35 in Canada and # 21 in the UK.
References
Source
- Hoskyns, Barney (1993). Across The Great Divide: The Band and America . Viking. ISBNÃ, 0-670-841447.
- Landy, Elliott (2015). The Band Photographs 1968-1969 . Backbeat book. ISBN: 978-1-4950-2251-7.
External links
- Sheet music
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