The Band – Music From Big Pink (Deluxe Edition / Remixed 2018) (1968/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Band – Music From Big Pink (Deluxe Edition / Remixed 2018) (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:44 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

The songs on this superb album include The Weight, This Wheel’s On Fire, Tears of Rage and To Kingdom Come and the cover art was painted by Bob Dylan (the ‘Big Pink’ being the upstate New York house where The Band wrote the songs.

Bob Clearmountain has created the new stereo mix (which features on the CD and double vinyl) from the original four-track analog masters. The CD features six outtakes/alternates (including an unreleased A Cappella version of I Shall Be Released) and the seven-inch included is a recreation the original 1968 single for The Weight and I Shall Be Released.

Listening to The Band is like contemplating old sepia pictures of America: it means hearing the sounds of a rock’n’roll brimming with its classical influences: blues, folk, country, jazz… After accompanying Bob Dylan in the studio and on stage, the Canadian gang led by Robbie Robertson put out their first album in high summer 1968. The record was cooked up in the Woodstock house they dubbed Big Pink. Out of step with other albums of its day, Music From Big Pink with its sleeve painted by Dylan himself, packs some timeless gems: The Weight, This Wheel’s On Fire, Chest Fever, Tears Of Rage… Country in silk shirts, folk fused with jazz, old-timey waltzes and roots rock, this long meander prefigures Americana… Above all, this is a collective work – they don’t call it The Band for nothing – and from bassist Rick Danko to drummer Levon Helm via pianists Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel, and Robertson on guitar, everyone brings a stone of their own to build this major edifice of American rock. – Marc Zisman

Tracklist:
1. The Band – Tears Of Rage (Remixed 2018) (05:27)
2. The Band – To Kingdom Come (Remixed 2018) (03:22)
3. The Band – In A Station (Remixed 2018) (03:35)
4. The Band – Caledonia Mission (Remixed 2018) (02:57)
5. The Band – The Weight (Remixed 2018) (04:45)
6. The Band – We Can Talk (Remixed 2018) (03:05)
7. The Band – Long Black Veil (Remixed 2018) (03:06)
8. The Band – Chest Fever (Remixed 2018) (05:28)
9. The Band – Lonesome Suzie (Remixed 2018) (04:08)
10. The Band – This Wheel’s On Fire (Remixed 2018) (03:26)
11. The Band – I Shall Be Released (Remixed 2018) (03:22)
12. The Band – Yazoo Street Scandal (Outtake) (04:11)
13. The Band – Tears Of Rage (Alternate Take) (05:33)
14. The Band – Long Distance Operator (Outtake) (04:34)
15. The Band – Lonesome Suzie (Alternate Take) (03:01)
16. The Band – Key To The Highway (Outtake) (02:28)
17. The Band – I Shall Be Released (Acapella) (03:05)

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