The group began as backup musicians for Ronnie Hawkins (Levon and the The Hawks) and then Bob Dylan, before releasing an album of their own in 1968. The group included Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel ...

Garth Hudson, the multi-instrumentalist wizard of The Band, the first Canadian group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 87.

Levon Helm once said of Hudson ... the group backed the Canadian bar-hopping outfit of Arkansas-born showman Ronnie Hawkins. Leaving Hawkins for greener pastures in the United States, they ...