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, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Today they're known as The Band, but it was in 1959 that Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard ...

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 ...

Levon Helm, who died in New York on April 19, age 71, from the cancer that he had been fighting for more than a decade, was one of the most celebrated rock drummers of the last 50 years. He uniquely ...

This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. Purity of spirit is one of the greatest ingredients of creative genius. And that's exactly what is captured in the new documentary about Levon Helm, ...

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 ...

Up on cripple creak --The shape I'm in --The weight --It makes no difference --Life is a carnival --Twilight --Don't do it --Tears of rage --Stage fright --Ophelia --The night they drove old Dixie ...