The Band's Music from Big Pink — John Niven

Music from Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan, and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional characters and actual, documented events thread their way through the test alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of a 23-year-old Greg Keltner, drug-dealer and wannabe musician, we witness the gestation and birth of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five decades — bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Travis, Wilco and Mercury Rev.