Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson was the architect of the Band, the one-time Bob Dylan backing group who profoundly changed the course of popular music in the late 1960s with their first two albums. As their principal songwriter and chief conceptualist, Robertson helped develop the idea of Americana music by spinning North American history into myths and undergirding his songs with a fusion of rock & roll, blues, folk, and country. Robertson stayed with the Band until internal tensions within the group became too much to bear. The Band bid adieu with the grand farewell The Last Waltz in 1976,...