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 ...
Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was ...
Robbie Robertson, best known as the lead guitarist for the Band (formed in 1967), died on August 9, at 80 years of age, from prostate cancer. The group with which he was most famously associated ...
“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 ...
The show will be held Oct. 17 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. The musical career of The Band's Robbie Robertson will be celebrated with an all-star concert taking place this fall. "Life Is a Carnival ...
The Band's Robbie Robertson performing in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1971 (photo: Gijsbert Hanekroot / Redfern). Eric Clapton, Noah Kahan, Trey Anastasio, Van Morrison and a host of music luminaries will ...
Nathaniel Rateliff paused backstage before the start of an all-star tribute to the late singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson on Thursday, considering what Robertson’s music, solo and with The Band, has ...
Robbie Robertson always considered himself more a storyteller than a songwriter. Over the course of his time with The Band, he chose subjects for his stories that many other songwriters wouldn’t have ...
Late Band guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson received a posthumous Academy Award nomination for best original score for his work on Killers of the Flower Moon on Tuesday, January 24. Robertson ...
Eric Clapton paid tribute to Robbie Robertson by opening the first show of his 2023 U.S. tour with two songs by the Band. As reported by JamBase, Clapton kicked off the concert at Pittsburgh's PPG ...
Robbie Robertson, guitarist and songwriter of The Band, has died at the age of 80. The Toronto native — whose influential music included classic rock hits like “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove ...