Following The Last Waltz, the 1976 farewell concert that signaled the end of The Band, Robbie Robertson laid low, at least in terms of the music business. Instead, he dove headlong into the world ...

Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of the influential group The Band, has died. He was 87.

Hudson was a founding member of The Band alongside Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. Hudson was an organist, keyboardist, accordionist and saxophonist for the group.

Garth Hudson stood a bit apart in The Band. For one thing, he didn’t sing. Lead guitarist and primary songwriter Robbie Robertson didn’t sing very much either, but he could if necessary.

a backing band for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. Even then, guitarist Robbie Robertson said later, “Garth was far and away the most advanced musician in rock’n’roll.” The Hawks had a ...

Eric “Garth” Hudson, the last original member of The Band, has died aged 87, the group has announced. The Canadian musician rose to fame with Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko ...

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all ... “Chest Fever,” a Robbie Robertson composition for which he devised an introductory organ solo (“The Genetic Method”), an ...

Garth Hudson at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards. Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson stand behind. January, 1994 [Photo: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame] Organist and multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson died ...

Longtime collaborator Levon Helm once said “you could take anybody out of the Band — Robbie [Robertson], Rick [Danko] or him — and it would still be the Band,” their producer John Simon ...