The Band (album)

The Band
The Band: (L – R) Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 22, 1969
RecordedLate 1968–1969
Studio
Genre
Length43:50
LabelCapitol
ProducerJohn Simon
The Band chronology
Music from Big Pink
(1968)
The Band
(1969)
Stage Fright
(1970)
Singles from The Band

The Band, also known as The Brown Album, is the second studio album by the Canadian-American rock band the Band, released on September 22, 1969, by Capitol Records. According to Rob Bowman's liner notes for the 2000 reissue, The Band has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on people, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana.[2] Thus, the songs on this album draw on historic themes for "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and "Jawbone" (which was composed in the unusual 6/4 time signature).

  1. ^ "CLASSIC TRACKS: The Band 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'". Soundonsound.com. 1941-08-11. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  2. ^ Bowman 2000, pp. 2–3.