Naturally, the NYT won't let me read the linked article unless I sign up.  
I would have a hard time not picking Blue as my all time favourite album.

Music from Big Pink is almost interchangeable but Blue is definitely something else.  Great sounding album too I have a reissued HQ180 pressing that is dynamite.
Fabulous album. I have a copy she signed for me when she was staying at her place north of Vancouver on the Sunshine Coast.