The Band

RS 500: Part 1 (100 music items)

""The Band was four-fifths Canadian — drummer Levon Helm was from Arkansas — but its second album was all American. Guitarist Robbie Robertson's songs vividly evoke the country's pioneer age — "Across the Great Divide," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" — while pointedly reflecting the state of the nation in the 1960s. The Band's long life on the road resonates in the brawn of Garth Hudson's keyboards and Helm's juke-joint attack. But Robertson's stories truly come to life in Helm's m"

TIME's 100 Greatest Albums (100 music items)

"“It took a group that was eighty percent Canadian to assemble what might be rock's strongest meditation on American history. After years as the barnstorming bar band the Hawks and a few turns as Bob Dylan's comrades in arms on his first electric tours, the five members of the Band retreated to a house outside of Woodstock and recorded a pair of unprecedented masterworks. Music from Big Pink defined the back-porch rootsiness that remains a central inspiration for the "alternative country" movem"

1001 Albums you must hear before you die (384 music items)

"Label: Capitol Nation: Canada, USA Running Time: 43:54 Year: 1969"