Insomnia, Robertson's posthumously released followup to his first memoir, goes deep into his growing relationship with ...
As part of my annual LifeQuest summer movies class last month, I screened Martin Scorsese's "The Last Waltz" from 1978, about The Band's "farewell concert appearance" with guitarist Robbie Robertson, ...
On July 1, 1968, the arrival of the debut album from a curious new group hit the music community with a resounding impact, its waves of influence felt almost immediately. Music From Big Pink was an ...
Helm came from the Delta region of the South, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River near Helena — flat, rich blues world, where Helm would take Robertson to meet a dying Sonny Boy Williamson ...
Songwriters can only do so much. Once the music and lyrics are written, it depends on the musicians to deliver a quality rendering of the material. And, of course, a singer’s ability to get inside the ...
“We'd tried it a number of different ways, but we weren't that excited about it,” Robbie Robertson told Guitar Player in our May 1995 issue. “So our attitude was, ‘Well, just in case something else ...
Garth Hudson at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards. Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson stand behind. January, 1994 [Photo: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame] Organist and multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson died in ...