The Band - The Band (National Album Day 2025) Real World Records The backdrop to Two Ribbons

The backdrop to Two Ribbons is two women navigating their way through a lot

all three are members of other bands (Landless and Lankum respectively) who have built a large following on re-interpreting songs from the past

but mainly it’s the abstracted tales of a young Baxter

The album’s title and much of the material for the songs were inspired by Arthur Koestler’s The Roots of Coincidence

The Band - The Band (National Album Day 2025) Real World Records The backdrop to Two RibbonsThis is a National Album Day 2025 release. Available in store and online on Saturday 18th October. The four parts Canadian, one part Arkansan quintet's sophomore effort boasts more soon to be staples than any other Band studio recording, what with the likes of the Joan Baez hit "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Across the Great Divide", and "Up on Cripple Creek" standing out among the dozen uniformly memorable tracks. Lesser known group