I'm a big fan of John Niven the Irvine born, American based author.
I recently got out from the library a 2018 re-issue of his 2005 debut novella Music From the Big Pink timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the debut album of the same name by The Band.
Described by Bloomsbury as a heady blend of drugs, music, sixties counter-culture and intoxicating youth it centres on a young drug dealer and wannabee musician Greg Keltner who hangs out with the band in Woodstock as The Band are recording their album and supplies drugs in particular to Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. Topically Bob Dylan makes a brief appearance.
It's only 187 pages and can easily be read in one or two sittings. and if hedonism is your thing I would recommend it.
I only have The Band and The Last Waltz so will keep an eye of for this one. I do, however have a couple of songs from it (one a Dylan cover you should all be familiar with) and a relevant song by the Drive-By Truckers
Never heard of them
ReplyDeleteI'm on dangerous ground here with all this Dylan revivalism. I've got 50 plus albs of his sitting on the shelves that, in a weak moment, I could easily commit to listening to chronologically not to mention re-reading Chronicles. That would be madness eh?
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