John Niven's Music from Big Pink: A Foreword
Barney Hoskyns, 'Music from Big Pink' (Bloomsbury), July 2018
THE FACT THAT John Niven was just two years old in 1968 – the year in which The Band's Music from Big Pink was released – only makes his 2005 novella about the album's inception and germination the more remarkable.
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