Blog: PopMatters

Take a load off Annie, take a load for free, take a load off Annie and read Counterbalance's take on the Band's debut, Music from Big Pink . Mendelsohn: There is something great about the Band's Music from Big Pink, sort of an undeniable energy and wide-eyed enthusiasm that really makes some of these songs pop off the wax. But then there are a couple of numbers that just don't have it all together and that makes the overall cohesiveness of this record suffer. I'm going to blame Bob Dylan. You OK with that, Klinger? That's about the [...]