The Band's Music from Big Pink

John Niven

The Band's Music from Big Pink
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 April 2007
Pages
168
ISBN
9780826417718

The Band’s Music from Big Pink

John Niven

Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy….This well-written first novel captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the way those dreams died.

-Greg Kamiya, The New York Times Book Review

Music From Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional characters and actual, documented events thread their way through text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of 23-year-old Greg Keltner, drug-dealer and wannabe musician, we witness the gestation and birth of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five decades - bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Travis, Wilco and Mercury Rev.

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