{"id":29828,"date":"2024-07-01T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-1-1968-the-band-release-their-debut-album-music-from-big-pink\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:02:56","slug":"on-this-day-july-1-1968-the-band-release-their-debut-album-music-from-big-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-1-1968-the-band-release-their-debut-album-music-from-big-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 1, 1968: The Band release their debut album ‘Music from Big Pink’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, July 1, 1968\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The Band<\/strong> \u2013 Robbie Robertson<\/strong>, Rick Danko<\/strong>, Richard Manuel<\/strong>, Garth Hudson<\/strong>, and Levon Helm<\/strong> \u2013 released their debut album, <\/span>Music from Big Pink<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The album was named after a house in Saugerties, New York, shared by Danko, Manuel and Hudson, where some of the songs on the album were composed. It was recorded after the group toured as Bob Dylan\u2019<\/strong>s backing band, and features a Dylan painting as the cover art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Music from Big Pink<\/span><\/em> features The Band\u2019s future classic \u201cThe Weight,\u201d which was written by Robertson. While it only reached #63 on the <\/span>Billboard<\/span><\/em> Hot 100, the song became more popular following The Band\u2019s performance at Woodstock, and the song\u2019s inclusion in the movie <\/span>Easy Rider<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Band broke up in 1976 following their\u00a0November 25, 1976, concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, which was filmed for what would become the critically acclaimed concert documentary <\/span>The Last Waltz<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On This Day, July 1, 1968\u2026 The Band \u2013 Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, and Levon Helm \u2013 released their debut album, Music from Big Pink. The album was named after a house in Saugerties, New York, shared by Danko, Manuel and Hudson, where some of theRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}