With drummer and fellow Arkansan Levon Helm, Hawkins put together a Canadian backing group that included guitarist-songwriter Robbie Robertson, keyboardists Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel and bassist ...

Ronnie Hawkins attends the premiere for "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band" in 2019, in Toronto. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Ronnie Hawkins, the rowdy rockabilly singer who was ...

Ronnie Hawkins, a rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of Canadian music and was backed by musicians who later morphed into The Band, died Sunday, his wife said. He was 87. The singer’s ...

Although Ronnie Hawkins never had much success on record, he was one of rock’n’roll’s greatest showmen and certainly its wittiest advocate. “Ninety per cent of what I made went on women, whiskey, ...

Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died.

Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died.

Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, died May ...

Ronnie Hawkins, the rockabilly singer who was instrumental in the development and evolution of rock ’n’ roll in Canada in the ‘60s, died Sunday morning, his wife Wanda told The Canadian Press. He was ...