The Band: Music From Big Pink
Barney Hoskyns, Capitol Records, October 2000
IT ALL BEGAN with a house. An unremarkable ranch house sitting at the end of a long dirt driveway in the shadow of a mountain called Overlook. A pink box with a basement, just a few miles east of the artists sanctuary that was Woodstock, New York.
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