Robbie Robertson, the Band’s guitarist and songwriter in the group’s years of stardom (who himself passed away in August of ...

Garth Hudson, the multi-instrumentalist wizard of The Band, the first Canadian group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of ...

Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel hung himself in 1986, bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999 and drummer Levon Helm died of ... and “This Wheel’s on Fire.” “There would be an ...

The last surviving member of the pioneering Canadian-American roots-rock group, he was an almost mythical figure who blended ...

Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel hung himself in 1986, bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999 and drummer Levon Helm died of ... and “This Wheel’s on Fire.” “There would be an ...

Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel killed himself in 1986, bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999, and drummer Levon Helm died of ... Released and This Wheel’s on Fire.

These two albums marked the emergence of distinct strands within Americana music. The Band’s roots in backing up Ronnie ...

"Just having Garth as a teacher was an honor," Helm wrote in his 1993 memoir, This Wheel’s on Fire. "He’d listen to a song on the radio in the Cadillac and tell us the chords as it went along.