Guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson died last week at age 80. He was a member, some say the leader, of The Band, a musical group from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Band was a darling of ...

You wouldn’t necessarily figure a song inspired by filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Ingmar Bergman — and crammed with surreal lyrical imagery referencing everything from the Bible to the Jewish owner of a ...

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 ...

Zac Brown Band covered “The Weight” in honor of Robbie Robertson, who died this August, during his stop in Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center in New York on Sunday night. Robertson, the Band‘s ...

Aug 9 (Reuters) - Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and main songwriter in The Band, the Canadian-American group known for songs including "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," has ...

The Band's "The Weight" can be heard in a new Super Bowl LVIII commercial for Budweiser. What begins as an instrumental version of the track eventually opens up into the original song. Released in ...

The word “mythic” appears in nearly every appraisal of the recently deceased Robbie Robertson‘s immense contribution to popular music. As the New York Times phrased it in the announcement of his death ...

THE BAND: (Singing) I pulled into Nazareth - was feeling about half past dead. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Robbie Robertson also played lead guitar for The Band. The group became famous backing Bob Dylan.

Upon its release in 1968, “The Weight” appeared on the charts in the US, Canada, and the UK. However, and like most hit songs, it’s only gotten better with age. That being so, many musicians have ...

After nearly 40 years out of print, The Band’s 1976 greatest hits compilation is finally being reissued. The compilation will be released on vinyl for the first time since the 1980s, as well as CD and ...