Title:The Band - The Band Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City:1969, Folk, Americana Roots Rock, Woodstock, New York 6/26 Matrix #:N/A Condition:VG+ (LM) | Members: Robbie R (43' - 23'), Levon H (40' - 12'), Rick D (43' - 99'), Richard M (43' - 86'), Garth H (37' - 25') Cultural Facts:
Personal Struggle:Richard Manuel’s alcoholism and depression later ended in suicide in 1986, giving the group’s old-soul image a much darker human afterlife.
Studio Lore:Much of the album was recorded in a Hollywood Hills pool house rented from Sammy Davis Jr., far from Woodstock but built to feel like old America.
Album Art:Elliott Landy’s brown-toned group portrait helped turn the record into “The Brown Album,” selling the band as history-haunted men outside normal rock glamour.
