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Audio & Streaming

The full studio catalog, all ten albums, is available on the major streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music), along with the three live albums and most of the compilations covered on this site's Music pages.

Where to start, if you're new: Music from Big Pink and The Band (1969) are the two essential records, followed by Northern Lights–Southern Cross for the strongest of the later material. The Songs A-Z page on this site works as a track-by-track entry point if a full album feels like too much at once.

The Basement Tapes exist in two very different streaming forms: the original 1975 release, overdubbed and reworked by Robertson and engineer Rob Fraboni, and 2014's The Basement Tapes Complete, all 138 surviving recordings presented close to how they actually sounded on tape. They're different listening experiences of the same sessions, not the same thing twice.

Bob Dylan's catalog overlaps with the group's own on Planet Waves (1974) and Before the Flood (1974), both credited jointly to Dylan and the Band, and worth searching separately if a streaming platform's algorithm doesn't surface them under the group's own artist page.

Podcasts and radio documentaries covering the group appear periodically on music-history-focused shows; searching the group's name alongside a specific album or event, such as "Music from Big Pink" or "The Last Waltz," tends to surface these more reliably than a general search.