"Their music is as aggressively and pretentiously dull as their choice of band name": The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters

The Band publicity photo.

The Band - The Band

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Across the Great Divide
Rag Mama Rag
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
When You Awake
Up on Cripple Creek
Whispering Pines
Jemima Surrender
Rockin' Chair
Look Out Cleveland
Jawbone
The Unfaithful Servant
King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

Having backed Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival, the quintessential Canadian backwoodsmen rented Sammy Davis Jr’s mansion in the Hollywood Hills and knocked off their second magnum opus.