The Band – The Band (New Vinyl) (50th Anniversary Edition)

NEW DOUBLE LP

New sealed copy. 2019 50th anniversary edition.

The Band is the second studio album by the Canadian-American rock band the Band, released on September 22, 1969. It is also known as The Brown Album. According to Rob Bowman's liner notes for the 2000 reissue, The Band has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on people, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana.

The album includes many of the Band's best-known and critically acclaimed songs, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", which Rolling Stone named the 245th-greatest song of all time in 2004 and the 249th-greatest song of all time in 2010. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 45 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list. In the 2020 update of that list, it was ranked No. 57. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted The Band the 76th greatest album of all time. Time magazine included it in their unranked 2006 list of the 100 greatest albums. Robert Christgau, having been disappointed with the Band's debut, had expected to dislike the record and even planned a column for the Village Voice to "castigate" their follow-up. Upon hearing the record, however, he declared it better than Abbey Road, which had been released four days following, writing that the Band's LP is an "A-plus record if I've ever rated one".

TRACKLIST:

A1 Across The Great Divide
A2 Rag Mama Rag
A3 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
B1 When You Awake
B2 Up On Cripple Creek
B3 Whispering Pines
C1 Jemima Surrender
C2 Rockin' Chair
C3 Look Out Cleveland
D1 Jawbone
D2 The Unfaithful Servant
D3 King Harvest (Has Surely Come)