The Band's last living member, Garth Hudson, has died. He passed away Tuesday morning, while sleeping in a New York nursing ...

The Band started as the backing group for Ronnie Hawkins before joining up with Bob ... are Canadian (drummer Levon Helms hails from Arkansas). After a series of successful albums on their own ...

Levon Helm once said of Hudson ... the group backed the Canadian bar-hopping outfit of Arkansas-born showman Ronnie Hawkins. Leaving Hawkins for greener pastures in the United States, they ...