Bengali Bauls - At Big Pink

Digitally remastered edition of this 1968 album. Bengali Bauls are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal, which includes the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh. They can often be identified by their distinctive clothes and musical instruments but not much is known of their origin. Bauls use a number of musical instruments the most common is the Ektara, a one stringed plucked drum drone instrument, others include the Dotara a fretless lute. The Bauls were the three guys standing with Bob Dylan on the cover of his John Wesley Harding album. This album was recorded at the legendary Big Pink, home of The Band and was produced by Garth Hudson.