“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 History Channel’s upcoming two-part docuseries Sitting Bull traces the epic life of the legendary Lakota chief as he fights for his people’s freedom, unifies warring Native nations against the U.S ...
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 ...
One of the first signs that Jimmy Carter was not your average politician came in January 1974. Already a Bob Dylan fan, the then-governor of Georgia was in the audience at Atlanta’s Omni Coliseum to ...
Robbie Robertson, The Band's lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" mined and helped reshape American music ...
Nearly a decade before The Band played their final concert, immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s 1978 film, The Last Waltz, Eric Clapton made his way to Woodstock in 1969, intent on asking if he could ...
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 ...