Just Another Whistle Stop
By the time 1970 rolled around, The Band was riding high. Their self-titled album (also known as The Brown Album) had sold an impressive half a million copies, and they gained a new community of fans who greatly enjoyed their more rootsy sound. While Music From Big Pink was a success and opened the doors for bigger things, the Brown album was seen as a more "down-home", sentimental sound that attracted those who loved country and folk music and solidified their rock fans. Country rock was starting to emerge around this era, so the album came out at a perfect time without it being necessarily country. Once again people couldn't quite pin down what exact genre of a rock band The Band was, except that they were their own sound that would greatly inspire the Americana genre as well as many other groups across the musical spectrum. Whatever these boys were, it was a smashing success with more bragging rights being bestowed upon them. Besides their already fast placement on the...