My first date with Dianna — best friend, wife and frequent editor — was to see The Band. She introduced me to the legendary rock group’s music, and we went to their 1970 concert in Madison, Wisc.

Discerning music fans everywhere are likely reminiscing about The Band even more than usual these days. The passing of Garth Hudson means there are no more living members of their classic lineup. Good ...

The last of the five members of the iconic American rock group, The Band, Garth Hudson’s death is the end of an era.

Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best ...

Hudson's elaborate fills brought Dylan’s poetic lyrics to life. “What I loved about working with Dylan was the imagery ... When the Hawks officially became the Band and released Music from Big Pink in ...

By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial ... a hopscotching bass line, Levon Helm’s shouted vocals. It’s subtly threaded together ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade ...

No matter the song, Hudson summoned just the right feeling ... bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999 and drummer Levon Helm died of cancer in 2012. The Band was inducted into the Rock ...

For a while, they gigged as Levon and The Hawks, during which time Hudson supplemented his income by working as a session musician for other artists. Their big break came in 1965, when manager Albert ...

then as Levon and the Hawks, then as the unsuspecting targets of outrage after hooking up with Dylan in the mid-1960s. All joined Dylan on his historic tours of 1965-66 (Helm departed midway), when he ...