The Band started as the backing group for Ronnie Hawkins before joining up with Bob Dylan for his epic 1966 tour. The following year, while Dylan was recovering from a motorcycle accident ...

He played in local bands before hooking up in the late 1950s with rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins' The Hawks, which eventually would feature many of his Band mates. The group would back Bob Dylan ...

Garth Hudson, the multi-instrumentalist wizard of The Band, the first Canadian group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 87.

The Band originally formed in 1957 as the Hawks, a backing group for Canadian rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. In 1966, they backed Dylan on his first and highly controversial tour with a full ...

The first official biography of The Band pianist Richard Manuel will hit shelves this spring via Schiffer Publishing.

Before they became The Band, they were the Hawks, first backing Ronnie Hawkins and later Bob Dylan during his transition from acoustic to electric — when they were booed on stage by hardcore ...

At the very beginning of his career, Hudson could be found in singer Ronnie Hawkins' backup band, The Hawks. Hudson also performed with Bob Dylan in 1966 on his first-ever tour and even worked as ...

They were all young, talented and eager musicians who later become the core of The Band. Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks from left: Rick Danko, bass; largely hidden Richard Manuel, piano; Hawkins ...

The Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Formed in the early 1960s as a backing group for rocker Ronnie Hawkins, the Band was originally called The Hawks and featured the ...