“Long Black Veil” by The Band

"Long Black Veil" is a Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin song that the Band folded into Music from Big Pink, their debut album, released by Capitol on July 1, 1968. John Simon produced it, with Don Hahn and Tony May engineering.

The album takes its name from a house in West Saugerties, New York, known as Big Pink, which Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson shared and where some of the music took shape. The sessions came in early 1968, at A & R Recording in New York and Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, after a 1966 stint as the Hawks behind Bob Dylan on the road and a spell holed up with him upstate on what became The Basement Tapes. Dylan even painted the cover. The result stirs country, folk, rock, R&B, blues, soul and a touch of classical into one brew.

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