American Songwriter

How Robbie Robertson Paid Tribute to Richard Manuel in Song

Robbie Robertson didn't intend to write about Richard Manuel. It happened anyway on the moving "Fallen Angel".
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Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter for ‘The Band,' dies at 80

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 ...
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Robbie Robertson told us how this simple change helped the Band save "The Weight" from oblivion

“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 ...
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Robbie Robertson, The Band frontman, dies aged 80

Musician and singer Robbie Robertson has died aged 80. The Canadian artist was best known for fronting The Band, penning the Americana band’s biggest hits including “The Weight”, “The Night They Drove ...

In Robbie Robertson’s posthumous memoir Insomnia, there’s no rest for the wicked

The rock legend’s second memoir spans the late 1970s and recounts his hedonistic friendship with Martin Scorsese ...
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Robbie Robertson, frontman for The Band, dies at 80

Robbie Robertson, guitarist and songwriter of The Band, has died at the age of 80. The Toronto native — whose influential music included classic rock hits like “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove ...