Music from Big Pink is the debut
studio album by
the Band. Released in 1968, it employs a distinctive blend of
country,
rock,
folk,
classical,
R&B, and
soul. The music was composed partly in "Big Pink", a house shared by
Rick Danko,
Richard Manuel and
Garth Hudson in
West Saugerties,
New York. The album itself was recorded in studios in New York and Los Angeles in 1968, and followed the band's backing of
Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as the Hawks) and time spent together in upstate New York recording material that was officially released in 1975 as
The Basement Tapes, also with Dylan. The cover illustration for the album is by Dylan.