(1943-2023) Farewell to The Band's Robbie Robertson.

Post-Dylan, The Band released seven studio albums and toured steadily, until tensions led to their 1976 farewell show, immortalized in the Martin Scorsese-directed documentary I The Last Waltz i . The guitarist backed Bob Dylan and fronted the group that revolutionized roots rock As chief lyricist for The Band, Robbie Robertson wrote with aching familiarity about mourning a war-torn Tennessee home ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"), gambling on the Louisiana bayou ("Up on Cripple Creek") and feeling "half-past dead" in Nazareth, Pa. ("The Weight"). IT TAUGHT US EVERYTHING WE KNOW" i - ROBBIE ROBERTSON in I The Last Waltz i Robertson - who is survived by his wife, Janet, ex-wife Dominique, their children Alexandra, Sebastian and Delphine, and five grandchildren - would go on to release five solo albums; he would also collaborate regularly with Scorsese on music for many of his films, including the upcoming I Killers of the Flower Moon i , a story that proudly reminded Robertson of his youth. [Extracted from the article]