The Band (2LP)

Released on the 22nd September, 1969, the eponymous second studio effort by The Band is a concept album, with the songs focusing on people, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana. It was recorded in the pool house of a home rented by the group in the Hollywood Hills which was once owned by Judy Garland, Wally Cox and, at the time the group worked there, Sammy Davis, Jr. According to Robbie Robertson, the location was chosen to give the songs a Basement Tapes–like feel in what was termed “a clubhouse concept.”

The album includes many of The Band’s best-known and critically acclaimed songs, including “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” which Rolling Stone named the 249th greatest song of all time. The magazine also ranked the album number 45 in their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Time magazine included it in their unranked 2006 list of the 100 greatest albums.

• Newly remixed and remastered
• 180g black vinyl, 45 rpm

TRACKLIST:

Side One

1. Across The Great Divide
2. Rag Mama Rag
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 

Side Two

1. When You Awake
2. Up On Cripple Creek
3. Whispering Pines

Side Three

1. Jemima Surrender
2. Rockin’ Chair
3. Look Out Cleveland

Side Four

1. Jawbone
2. The Unfaithful Servant
3. King Harvest (Has Surely Come)