David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Rock 100, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999
THE BAND was once described as the only group who could warm up the crowd for Abraham Lincoln. When they first appeared late in 1968, they were both a musical oddity and a curiosity in the history of rock & roll.
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