As intimate as lovers, as self-effacing as monks, as synchronized as guys who have been on the road together for six years.
Continue reading...127: The Band, ‘Tears of Rage’ (“Music from Big Pink”)
126: Bob Dylan, ‘Tears of Rage’ (The Basement Tapes)
Dylan’s “King Lear”–a daughter’s love denied.
Continue reading...193: The Band, ‘Rockin’ Chair’
Robbie Robertson has gone to that Happy Hunting Ground in the sky, so it’s only proper we pay our great respects.
Robbie was the leader of a leaderless collective till things went South and his ego took him to LA. But undeniable credit is due to him for some of the finest, most definitive music of our times.