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Robbie Robertson

Biography

by Jason Ankeny

One of the premier songwriters of the rock era, Robbie Robertson was born July 5, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario. The son of a Jewish father and Mohawk mother, Jaime Robbie Robertson's first brush with live music came at the Six Nations Reservation, his mother's girlhood home; at the age of five, he also gained exposure to the country music of rural America. Not long after, he began taking guitar lessons from a cousin, and gradually began composing his first songs. As time wore on, his musical interests evolved from country to big band to rock, and he eventually dropped out of school to pursue a career as a performer. In 1958, he hooked up with rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins' backing band the Hawks, joining fellow sidemen Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel.

After remaining with Hawkins through 1963, the Hawks began working on their own; they soon came to the attention of Bob Dylan, and became the support unit on the singer's now-legendary 1965

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RIP Robbie Robertson, the Canadian Who Brought Roots to Rock’n’Roll

Robbie Robertson with the Band in 1976/AP

By Charlie Angus

August 10, 2023

As soon as the news surfaced on Wednesday that Robbie Robertson passed into the other world, my phone started pinging. Friends, colleagues, musicians; all were wanting to connect over the fact Canada and the world had lost a truly great artist. It seemed surreal — I had been on the internet earlier in the day searching out photographs of Robertson and the Band circa 1968.

My recent interest/obsession was the product of a late-night debate over wine and songs with some musician friends. We were arguing about the Band — something all bands do — with each of us taking sides in the legendary break-up of one of the greatest musical acts of the 20^th century.

There are many artists who’ve had more hits and sold more discs but there are few who have had as enormous a cultural influence as the musical outlaws from Big Pink, the house in Upstate New York where the Band wrote Music from Big Pink, their 1968 debut album.

Soon after h

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Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician. He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist.

Robertson's work with the Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Band, and into Canada's Walk of Fame, with the Band and on his own. He is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists. He wrote "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "Up on Cripple Creek" with the Band and had solo hits with "Broken Arrow" and "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and many others. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters.

Robertson collaborated on film and TV soundtracks, usually with director Ma