1968, West Saugerties, just outside Woodstock. In a remote house called Big Pink, a motley band of multi-instrumentalists have gone from backing frantic rockabilly cat Ronnie Hawkins as The Hawks, to ...
Hudson’s keyboard was an essential element of the Band's sound on roots-rock classics such as 'The Weight' and 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.' ...
Hudson supported Bob Dylan on his first rock tour in 1966 and served as the recording engineer for their legendary “basement tapes” in West Saugerties ... from Big Pink,” partly based ...
Garth Hudson, whose fantastical approach to the organ and virtuosity on a panoply of other instruments lent a distinctive touch to the roots-rock of the Canadian-American group the Band, has died, ...
Hudson and the rest of the Band descended on Dylan's home in Saugerties the next year. Each morning, the Band would awaken at Big Pink and prepare for rehearsals. Hudson went down early to ensure ...
Hudson supported Bob Dylan on his first rock tour in 1966 and served as the recording engineer for their legendary “basement tapes” in West Saugerties ... “Music from Big Pink,” partly ...
He died just a short distance from the pink house in West Saugerties that became famous ... Band wrote their seminal debut album Music From Big Pink. Hudson was born in Windsor, Ontario in Canada ...
Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best embodies the glorious, lawless amalgamation of styles at the very heart of rock ...
The last surviving member of the legendary "Up On Cripple Creek" group died in his sleep on Monday morning (Jan. 21).
The last of the five members of the iconic American rock group, The Band, Garth Hudson’s death is the end of an era.