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''Music from Big Pink'' is the debut studio album by the Band. Released in 1968, it employs a distinctive blend of country, rock, folk, classical, R&B, and soul. The music was composed partly in "Big Pink", a house shared by Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson in West Saugerties, New York. The album itself was recorded in studios in New York and Los Angeles in 1968, and followed the band's backing of Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as the Hawks) and time spent together in upstate New York recording material that was officially released in 1975 as ''The Basement Tapes'', also with Dylan. ==Reception== The initial critical reception to the album was positive,〔 though sales were slim; Al Kooper's rave review of the LP in ''Rolling Stone''〔 helped to draw public attention to it (even though ''Rolling Stone'' referred to them as "The band from Big Pink" instead of just ''The Band''). The fact that Bob Dylan wrote one, and co-wrote two, of the songs on the album also attracted attention. In 1968, "The Weight" peaked at #63 on ''Billboards Hot 100 singles chart in the US. The song was a bigger hit elsewhere, peaking at #35 in Canada, and #21 in the UK. The album peaked at #30 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in 1968, and then recharted as a #8 hit on the Top Internet Albums chart in 2000 (see 2000 in music). "The Weight" gained widespread popularity, from The Band's performance of it at Woodstock on 17 August 1969 and due partially to its inclusion in the film ''Easy Rider'', though it was omitted from the soundtrack due to licensing issues. A cover version by the band Smith was included on the soundtrack album instead. In 2003, the album was ranked number 34 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The laid-back feel of the album attracted the attention of other major artists. For example, Eric Clapton cites the album's roots rock style as what convinced him to quit Cream, and pursue the styles of Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominos and his debut album. George Harrison was also impressed by the album's musicianship and sense of camaraderie, and Roger Waters has called it the second "most influential record in the history of rock and roll" after ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' and that it "affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply." The original LP record issue included a gatefold cover in 1968, duplicated 40 years later in 2008 as a remastered 180 gm LP. On compact disc, it was remastered as a gold CD in 1989, as a DVD-audio in 2001, and as a remastered numbered edition SACD in 2009. On August 29, 2000, it was reissued by EMI Records as a standard compact disc with nine bonus tracks as listed below. In 2012, Mobile Fidelity released a remastered, numbered, limited edition, Half-speed_Mastering from the original master tapes, 180g LP pressed at RTI. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Music from Big Pink」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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