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The Band Expand The Classic ‘Stage Fright’ ‘Stage Fright’, the third album from The Band, will be reissued with bonus tracks, demo recordings and a complete concert album. The Band were the backing band for Bob Dylan. The members of the band were from Woodstock (yes actually a band from Woodstock) and neighbours of Dylan. Dylan hired them for his 1966 world tour. In 1967 they recorded the demos which became The Basement Tapes, and rehearsed their debut ‘Music From Big Pink’, release...

  By the time The Band was ready to record their third album, Stage Fright, in 1970, they were riding high from having released back-to-back albums that solidified them as one of the most exciting and revolutionary groups of the late 1960s. Seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere in ‘68, their landmark debut album, Music From Big Pink, drew from the American roots music panoply of country, blues, R&B, gospel, soul, rockabilly, the honking tenor sax tradition, hymns, funeral dirges, b...