Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best embodies the glorious, lawless amalgamation of styles at the very heart of rock ...

Hudson officially began his tenure with The Band in 1965, after they had finished a two-year stint as The Hawks, the back-up group for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. That same year, The Band ...

The Band began in 1957, when Helm migrated from Arkansas to Ontario to join Robertson, Danko, Manuel, Hudson and Stan Szelest as Ronnie Hawkins ... keep standing in a rockabilly singer ...

That yowl was Hudson’s organ. Like his bandmates, he got recruited by Fifties rockabilly vet Ronnie Hawkins for his backup band, the Hawks. He grew up in Ontario, in a farming family.

He soon had the opportunity. In 1961 he was approached by the Canadian rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins to join his band, the Hawks; Hudson hesitated, fearing the reaction of his conservative ...

Hudson was the last to join The Hawks, which at that time was the backing band for the rockabilly singer, Ronnie Hawkins. Of his bandmates, Richard Manuel was found dead in 1986, Rick Danko ...

This made the arrangement more palatable to his parents. At first, the group backed rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins and was known as the Hawks. Hudson was an odd fit initially, Robertson wrote in ...

This made the arrangement more palatable to his parents. At first, the group backed rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins and was known as the Hawks. Hudson was an odd fit initially, Robertson wrote in his ...