The Band's Music From Big Pink (33 1/3)

The Band's Music From Big Pink (33 1/3)

by JohnNiven (Author)

Synopsis

Music From Big Pink is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, we witness the gestation and birth of an album that will go on to cast its spell across forty years. John Niven brings these characters to life with remarkable skill, and the result is an exhilarating, vivid, and powerfully moving book about the highs - and lows - of creating musical history.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
Edition: 1
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 25 Oct 2008

ISBN 10: 082641771X
ISBN 13: 9780826417718

Media Reviews
'A brilliant series of pocket-sized books focussing on a classic album. Each one a work of real love.' NME
Author Bio
John Niven toured and recorded as a guitarist in the Wishing Stones (their sole LP Wildwood owes more than a passing debt to the music of The Band), before becoming an A&R man and working with acts like Travis, Mogwai, and Sigur Ros. He lives just outside of London, and this is his first book.