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"Music From Big Pink" is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, we witness the gestation and birth of an album that will go on to cast its spell across forty years. John Niven brings these characters to life with remarkable skill, and the result is an exhilarating, vivid, and powerfully moving book about the highs - and lows - of creating musical history.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Into the frazzled world of alchemists..., 21 Jan 2006 By  Ms. Felicia Davis-burden (Staines, UK) - See all my reviews       No doubting it, The Band were musical alchemists. Niven has written a novella inspired by listening to one of the greatest and most moving albums ever created. Members of The Band, mainly Richard Manuel and Rick Danko, are introduced to us through factual occurrances and imagined scenarios where the main character Greg is drawn into their circle of friends and hangers-on. I am impressed by the merging of the real and imagined scenes: The mercurial, troubled Manuel is brought back to us in the prose and dialogue, and through references to his beautiful voice and songwriting on the Big Pink LP. If this book acheives anything for readers unfamiliar with The Band, it will move them to buy a copy of the remastered CD, or maybe even search out an original gatefold copy of the album. A powerful, insightful and clever piece of writing.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews