Forbidden Fruit
In the spring of 1975, The Band returned to the studio to work on what would become their first album of brand-new material in four years. It had been two years since the boys had left the cozy Catskill Mountain town of Woodstock, New York in October 1973 to follow Bob Dylan out to Malibu, California, and it appeared that they were not heading back east anytime soon. Rick Danko reflected in an interview with Barney Hopkins, "My original idea was to move to California for about three months. Instead, we came out and stayed eight years.". So many changes both personally and professionally had happened since they recorded Cahoots in 1971, and it seemed that The Band had almost given up on complete collaboration as they once had so effortlessly just a few years prior. Yet, The Band proved ever triumph with their new delivery and had a comeback album that would prove to rank as some of their best work along with Music From Big Pink and their self-titled (Brown Album). Another not...