The Band - The Band

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.