Showing posts with label Robbie Robertson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robbie Robertson. Show all posts

10 August, 2023

R.I.P. Robbie Robertson

Robertson seems like he was an interesting fellow. He helped pioneer Americana despite being Canadian and delved into his Native American heritage. I know his work with The Band but only know of his later music. I get the impression that he always kept a foot in the past and one in the present.

There hasn't been a flood of The Band/Robbie Robertson shows posted as Dime in the wake of his death. Not yet, anyway. It doesn't appear that The Band ever played in Wisconsin with Robertson, at least, but I did find an older download of The Band's show at Chicago's Arie Crown Theater on 1 December 1971 that included the concert on audio as well as some video footage as well. Someone had an 8mm and Super8 camera in the audience that night, apparently, and I found that what they filmed is on Youtube.