For about six years, from 1968 through 1975, the Band was one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the public) as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Taken from All Music Guide; http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:1e8o1v0jzzca~T1
For about six years, from 1968 through 1975, the Band was one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the public) as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Taken from All Music Guide; http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:1e8o1v0jzzca~T1 « hide