In addition to both being prolific and inspiring musicians, Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm shared a much seedier past involving criminals, drugs, and attempts at armed robbery. Before the fame ...

For the vast majority of that time, the hole that Robertson left ... back in contact with Helm just as he was thinking about reforming the Band. You first played with Levon Helm in Levon and ...

Now, all these complaints that Levon made in his book and in interviews are mostly based around his feeling that he should have gotten more songwriting credits for the arrangements of songs.

The Band in London, June 1971. (from left) Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko. Songwriters and musicians are fond of saying they had no particular excitement ...

Robbie Robertson was the mysterious songwriter at ... this brotherhood turned bitter over money. As everyone knows, Levon Helm felt burned by Robertson, and complained about him to his dying ...

Robbie Robertson and The Band, and as late as 2021 he expressed sadness about the acrimony Helm felt toward him. "That was so sad. Levon just got this idea that I had hijacked the narrative of the ...

Robbie Robertson died after a long illness ... which included 18-year-old drummer and fellow Arkansan Levon Helm. “I had just never seen anything this excited and spirited,” Robertson would ...

Robbie Robertson, co-founder of The Band, died on Aug. 9 at the age of 80. The original members of Southern-style rock combo The Band, (from left) Canadians Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie ...

Robbie Robertson, best known for his work as the ... with drummer and future The Band member Levon Helm, at age 16. The other future members of The Band — keyboard player Hudson, bassist Rick ...

Robbie Robertson, the driving force behind the pioneering ... while the fledgling guitarist was infatuated with Levon Helm, the drummer of the Hawks. Robertson worked his way into the inner ...

In June of 2020, with a pandemic raging, Robbie Robertson took some ... Garth Hudson, and Levon Helm. In the wake of Robertson’s death at age 80 this week, here’s a full text version of ...