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Across the Great Divide : the Band and America by Hoskyns, Barney is a music available to read on EtoBox.

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438 pages : 25 cm The Band was one of the most celebrated and influential groups to arrive on the music scene in the late sixties, creating some of the most profoundly stirring albums of the era, the myths and emotions of rural America their abiding themes The Band's members - four Canadians: Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and one drummer from Arkansas, Levon Helm - fashioned something magically new out of components that were musically traditional: old-time country and gospel, Preservation Hall jazz, medicine-show vaudeville. They started as The Hawks, a teenage backup group for rockabilly renegade Ronnie Hawkins, touring the endless highways through the heart of the South. Eventually they headed north, where they left Hawkins to become Bob Dylan's band on the revolutionary electric tours of 1965 and 1966. From there they retreated to Woodstock, and, during a period of intense personal closeness and creativity, produced two of the most revered and hallmark albums of the era - Music from the Big Pink and The Band These were part of a remarkable series of recordings, full of poetry and musical inspiration, an earthy fusion of country, gospel, and rock 'n

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Author
Hoskyns, Barney
Publisher
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
Published
1993
Language
EN
ISBN
9781562828363
Category
music
Subjects
Memoir, Fiction, Music
Rating
4.1 / 5 (11 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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