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- 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.
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Aug 10, 2023 · A look back at the best of Robbie Robertson, the pioneering Band songwriter and guitarist who died on Wednesday at 80.
- 4 min
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Aug 9, 2023 · Robbie Robertson. Robbie Robertson covered Crazy Love, Who Do You Love, I Shall Be Released, Twilight and other songs. Robbie Robertson originally did Crazy Love, Who Do You Love, I Shall Be Released, Twilight and other songs. Robbie Robertson wrote The Shape I'm In, Acadian Driftwood and Bacon Fat.
- Canada
- August 9, 2023
- July 5, 1943
- 4 min
- Jesse Kinos-Goodin
- 'The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down' If there's a greater song about the Civil War written by a Canadian, we haven't heard it. Robertson had the tune for this song in his head, but wasn't sure what it was going to be about.
- 'The Weight' There are few things guaranteed in life, but one of those guarantees is this: if any band, not even just the Band, closes out a concert with "The Weight," everyone in the audience will be belting out "take a load off Fanny" by the time the chorus hits.
- 'It Makes no Difference' The Band had three of the greatest voices in rock 'n' roll in its time, and "It Makes no Difference" may be one of the best displays from Danko.
- 'Ophelia' The best song from the Band's 1975 album, Northern Lights - Southern Cross, was inspired by Hamlet's ill-fated lover, Ophelia. Helm's vocals on this are so perfect, so essential, that the song will always be associated with him.
Aug 10, 2023 · By Jon Pareles. Published Aug. 10, 2023 Updated Aug. 15, 2023. In Robbie Robertson’s music, earthiness and mystery were never far apart. Robertson, who died on Wednesday at 80, wrote songs...
- Jon Pareles
Aug 9, 2023 · The best songs by Robbie Robertson, lead songwriter and guitarist for The Band, including "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and more.
- 3 min
- Rolling Stone
- Ronnie Hawkins, ‘Who Do You Love?’ (1963) Before he was a master of restraint and taste, Robertson was a downright nasty teenage beast of a lead guitarist.
- Bob Dylan, ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’ (Live) (1966) For decades, the only officially released track from Bob Dylan and the Band’s epochal 1966 tour was a loping live performance of this track, from a show in Liverpool, England, which dropped as the B-side to “I Want You.”
- Bob Dylan, ‘Pledging My Time’ (1966) It takes a lot to outshine Bob Dylan, but Robertson managed to do it for four whole minutes on Blonde on Blonde‘s track two, making his own mark on one of the greatest albums of all time.
- Bob Dylan, ‘Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat’ (1966) Dylan flirts and leers through the funniest track on Blonde on Blonde, tossing out a string of double entendres about hats (“Honey, can I jump on it sometime?/
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. [4]
