"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

Just listened to the Brown Album and Stage Fright yesterday in memory of Robbie. I can still remember listening to Big Pink for the first time when it was initially released and thinking that I had never heard anything like it in my life. The Weight, Chest Fever, Crippled Creek and on and on are all timeless. 

laid the groundwork for some of my favorite bands many years later like Uncle Tupelo and the Jayhawks.

As far as John Hiatt’s Slow Turning love the album. Waiting and hoping someone would release a proper remaster on an LP.

'TNTDODD' comes off as what it is, an old southern lament over the unCivil war...

Living here in the south, one still runs into those who still have something anchored in the past that just needed to be left behind....mho, >$.02 (inc. inflation) 🤨

...prefer to miss this...RIP, Rob...😔

@rettrussell: A beautiful post, thank you. Eric Clapton also holds Richard Manuel in very high regard. His death (okay, suicide) is the only one of a musician that brought me to tears.

@relayer101: I myself found Music From Big Pink to be unfathomable for a year after its' release in 1968. It wasn't until the next year that I heard my first really good ensemble-style band (New Buffalo, a quarter lead by Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin, with Bobby's brother Randy Fuller on bass and harmony vocals) that I "got" that style of music. It changed everything. I view the history of Rock 'n' Roll in terms of BTB (before The Band) and ATB (after). Not to be sacrilegious, but like B.C. and A.D.

I much prefer "Acadian Driftwood" as a song and instrumental/vocal performance.  Everybody has an opinion...

Thew one that does it for me is Acadian Driftwood