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In reply to the discussion: Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80 [View all]
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)20. The NYT is working on a complete obit
Here’s an excerpt and a gift link of what they have so far:
…The songs Mr. Robertson wrote for the Band used enigmatic lyrics to evoke a hard and colorful America of yore. With uncommon conviction, they conjured a wild place, often centered in the South, peopled by rough-hewed characters, from the defeated Confederate soldier in “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” to the tough union worker of “King Harvest Has Surely Come” to the shady creatures in “Life Is a Carnival.”
The music he matched to his passionate yarns mined the roots of every essential American genre, including folk, country, blues and gospel. Yet when his history-minded compositions first appeared on albums by the Band in the late 1960s, they felt vital as well as vintage.
“I wanted to write music that felt like it could’ve been written 50 years ago, tomorrow, yesterday — that had this lost-in-time quality,” Mr. Robertson said in a 1995 interview for the public television series “Shakespeare in the Alley.”
The music he matched to his passionate yarns mined the roots of every essential American genre, including folk, country, blues and gospel. Yet when his history-minded compositions first appeared on albums by the Band in the late 1960s, they felt vital as well as vintage.
“I wanted to write music that felt like it could’ve been written 50 years ago, tomorrow, yesterday — that had this lost-in-time quality,” Mr. Robertson said in a 1995 interview for the public television series “Shakespeare in the Alley.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/arts/music/robbie-robertson-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=cncn-pEYtx_Gof93Qfze3XIDeq8Nl7MIaE_DPQ26HcoqpMqlELkd8Q2BPacKaOGY2ZhLhWewhBBVA3we1xy3IeYGFVcgmu_Iis7XnhA4nftHNWEXecsPPmSQ56OBbk3NdWKhwhgS1ssx8h33WPkHOh0P0z9DRj9SnOQrq64phGFOA784NCiBVyeTREuTNmA6JQyLIZo3nBOF8DM2il7X34ZSxYTUPEDmOjPZ-tuSCzfP7sy--mUB4BzY8pNED97FQEV0Lwkh6c18wNJyQ2yIBHcSWG6AwGHO7vizMiZz3MRfRylrnD0Yi2Jzy6ViDf8e4F4XWcXLUjqoA8ESwmbwSGBh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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I deleted this because it was a performance by the Band but Robertson was not there.
honest.abe
Aug 2023
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