Hudson had been living in a nursing home in upstate New York. Formed in the early 1960s as a backing group for rocker Ronnie Hawkins, the Band was originally called The Hawks and featured the ...

The solution was to have Hawkins hire him as a "musical consultant" and pay him $10 extra a week. "It was a job," Hudson said of the Band in a 2002 interview with Maclean's. "Play a stadium ...

Robertson, the band's guitarist and lead songwriter, died in 2023 after a long illness. Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel ...

The Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.Formed in the early 1960s as a backing group for rocker Ronnie Hawkins, the Band was originally called The Hawks and featured the ...