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Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician. He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with The Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist.
Aug 9, 2023 · Robbie Robertson, the driving force behind the pioneering rock ’n’ roll group the Band, died on Wednesday. He was 80. His death was confirmed by his longtime manager, Jared Levine. In a...
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Aug 10, 2023 · Robbie Robertson was the mysterious songwriter at the center—the silent guitar wizard in a band of singers. Bob Dylan called him “the only mathematical guitar genius I’ve ever run into who...
Aug 9, 2023 · Robbie Robertson, Master Storyteller Who Led the Band, Dead at 80. The Band's guitarist and primary songwriter collaborated with Bob Dylan and penned "The Weight," "The Night They Drove Old...
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- Andy Greene
Aug 13, 2023 · In June of 2020, with a pandemic raging, Robbie Robertson took some time to look back at his career with the Band, from writing their greatest hits to their work with Bob Dylan.
- Brian Hiatt
Aug 9, 2023 · Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s, has died. He was 80.
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Aug 9, 2023 · Robbie Robertson, the chief composer and lead guitarist for the Band, whose work offered a rustic vision of America that seemed at once mythic and authentic, in the process helping to inspire...
