The Band - Music from Big Pink (w/ guest Chris Villalta)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome thegreatalbums.com blogger Chris Villalta to the the podcast to talk about the Band's Music from Big Pink (1968, Capitol). Chris talks about discovering the Band at the LA Grammy museum and thinking they looked like a bunch of dudes from the 1920s. The we get into Richard Manuel's unique voice, the Band's effortless musicianship, the friction between Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson, an interesting narrative that Chris weaves through the album's lyrics, Garth Hudson's influence on the group, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.0	And I'm Brian.
0:02.8	What are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.0	1968's Music from Big Pink by the band.
0:13.6	I pulled into Nazareth, what's feeling about half-fasted?
0:20.3	I just need some place
0:22.5	where I can lay my head
0:25.6	Hey mister can you tell
0:29.2	Where a man might find a bed
0:32.4	He just grin and shook my hand
0:36.6	Know what's all he said
0:38.7	Take a load off, Fannie
0:42.5	What we do here every week on the podcast
0:44.8	Is take a different album of music
0:46.7	And talk about what makes it great
0:48.6	We try to have the conversation around the music
0:51.4	That fans do
0:52.6	We're going to talk about What makes the music cool, how we got into it, and then we're
0:58.1	going to do a track-by-track review.
1:00.5	Ooh, something different.
1:02.4	Yes.
1:03.5	No.
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