"Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in
vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man's
cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy....This
well-written first novel captures not just some of the dreams of that
bygone era, but the way those dreams died."
-Greg Kamiya, The New York Times Book Review
Music From Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick
Danko, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional
characters and actual, documented events thread their way through text
alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of 23-year-old Greg
Keltner, drug-dealer and wannabe musician, we witness the gestation and
birth of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five
decades - bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles,
Eric Clapton, Travis, Wilco and Mercury Rev.