In a remote house called Big Pink, a motley band of multi-instrumentalists have gone from backing frantic rockabilly cat Ronnie Hawkins as The Hawks, to getting booed while playing with Bob Dylan. Now ...
Discerning music fans everywhere are likely reminiscing about The Band even more than usual these days. The passing of Garth Hudson means there are no more living members of their classic lineup. Good ...
Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best ...
Robbie Robertson, the Band’s guitarist and songwriter in the group’s years of stardom (who himself passed away in August of 2023 ), offered a far more effusive assessment of what Hudson brought to the ...
Rolling Stone called them “the band from Big Pink,” which I quite like myself. Music from Big Pink came out in 1968, and it’s one of the most important debut records of its time and all time.
The last surviving member of the pioneering Canadian-American roots-rock group, he was an almost mythical figure who blended ...
The beloved organ virtuoso died on Tuesday morning at 87, near Woodstock, New York — just a few miles down the road from Big Pink, the house where the Band and Bob Dylan transformed music ...
Hudson’s recordings served as the basis of both for the seminal Dylan and the Band album “The Basement Tapes,” officially released in 1975, and “Music From Big Pink,” the Band’s 1967 d ...
The last surviving member of the legendary "Up On Cripple Creek" group died in his sleep on Monday morning (Jan. 21).
John Sykes, a veteran hard-rock guitarist who was a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and the Tygers of Pan Tang, has died, according to a post on his official Facebook page. He had battled cancer for ...