Archival Tape Edition No. 21 § The Band - The Band

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Known to fans and collectors alike as "The Brown Album", The Band's second studio release arrived on September 22, 1969, via Capitol Records - less an album than a sepia-toned scrapbook of mythic Americana. In the liner notes to the 2000 reissue, music historian Rob Bowman frames it as a kind of concept album, though not in the strict sense. Rather, these songs feel like dispatches from a half-remembered past: dusty rail towns, failing harvests, Civil War ghosts, and bar room philosophers. Track