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The Band's Robbie Robertson Looks Back On 50 Years Of 'Music From Big Pink'

The Band's Robbie Robertson describes how The Band's unique, honest and eclectic sound evolved in the basement of a house they called Big Pink, and the process of creating Music from Big Pink.
The Band. Woodstock, NY, '68

Today, The Band's Robbie Robertson is going to take us back 50 years, to a basement just outside of Woodstock, New York and the formation of a sound and an album that all these years later still shapes the musical landscape.

The album is and the band is, of course, . (Its generic name came from the fact that in the early '60s

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