It’s been hard for me to listen to anything other than The Band since Robbie Robertson died. The Band’s contribution to American music is both sonic and spiritual. They existed in a moment of radical change, which was reflected in music from The Beatles’ The White Album to “Harper Valley PTA.” They created a mystic sense of wonder born of the American past, countering The White Album with a self-titled work that got nicknamed The Brown Album.
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