The Band

The Band's second album has two songs always on the radio: the stomping "Up On Cripple Creek" and the monumental "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." While these are great, landmark songs, "When You Awake," "Whispering Pines" and "Across the Great Divide" are among the Band's best songs. Basically any time Richard Manuel is singing you should be listening.

It's home made, Robbie Robertson says, done in the house they rented in Hollywood last
winter in which they fixed up a room with baffles and a projector for flicks and the
recording equipment. Robbie was engineer for about 90% of the work and they really
produced the album themselves. John Simon, aside from being odd man in for the horn
section, became "that outside ear and outside opinion you could trust." So it real... More >