Sweet Journey Robbie Robertson

Wishing Robbie Robertson a sweet journey in the Spirit World.

Rolling Stone writes

ROBBIE ROBERTSON, THE Band’s guitarist and primary songwriter who penned “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” and many other beloved classics, died Wednesday at age 80.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1234803234/

The Guardian writes:

Robertson’s other gift was one that is rarely celebrated in the rock histories, because they celebrate those who reached too far, who suffered for their art: he was really very good at getting things done. He was a child guitarist – obsessed by both the rock’n’roll records he heard on the radio in Toronto from across the border, and by the country they came from – and joined the backing band of rock’n’roll singer Ronnie Hawkins at the age of 16 in 1959, first as bassist, before swapping to lead guitar of the Hawks. Robertson learned his trade not in the folk clubs of the East Village or the underground ballrooms of Detroit and San Francisco, but in the roadhouses and bars of a touring group playing to eat and live. Which meant that in due course it seemed as though there was no challenge to which Robertson could not rise.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/10/the-band-robbie-robertson-captured-a-dream-of-what-america-was-is-and-might-be

 

Robbie Robertson Ghost Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA0zpemMUow

Robbie Robertson bio
https://robbie-robertson.com/biography/