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Eric Clapton Leads All-Star Tribute to Band’s Robbie Robertson

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Eric Clapton Leads All-Star Tribute to Band’s Robbie Robertson

Thursday night's Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson found Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and others paying tribute to the late Band songwriter and guitarist. See videos and a complete look at the four sets of songs, which included material from the Band, Robertson's solo career and other favorites.Clapton played the entire third set, with "The Shape I'm In" as a highlight. The bill at the Kia Forum in […]

todayOctober 18, 2024

Martin Scorsese Will Direct Robbie Robertson Tribute Concert Film

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Martin Scorsese Will Direct Robbie Robertson Tribute Concert Film

Martin Scorsese will direct the filming of Thursday night's Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson.The concert is taking place at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and is scheduled to feature Trey Anastasio, Ryan Bingham, Mike Campbell, Eric Church, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Jim James, Jamey Johnson, Noah Kahan, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Mavis Staples, Benmont Tench, Don Was, Bobby Weir and Lucinda Williams.Scorsese was already […]

todayOctober 17, 2024

Chris Robertson Discusses Black Stone Cherry’s Live Shows

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Chris Robertson Discusses Black Stone Cherry’s Live Shows

Black Stone Cherry are gearing up for a handful of tours across the globe — and the bands they're hitting the road with cover a wide spectrum of rock."We're doing Clutch and Rival Sons," Robertson said on Loudwire Nights on Thursday (Aug. 22). That tour, which starts in September, follows their summer run of shows with Nonpoint."Then we go to Europe, taking Ayron Jones with us and then we go […]

todayAugust 23, 2024 1

Life Is a Carnival Tour Continues Robbie Robertson Tributes

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Life Is a Carnival Tour Continues Robbie Robertson Tributes

The all-star tribute to the Band's Robbie Robertson is going on the road. The Life Is a Carnival: Last Waltz Tour '24 launches two days after that previously announced Oct. 17 show at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, featuring Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Jamey Johnson, Don Was and others. Tickets go on sale at 10AM ET on Friday, Aug. 16. Also included on the bill: Ryan Bingham, John Medeski, […]

todayAugust 14, 2024 1

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Robbie Robertson & Martin Scorsese to Receive Award at 2024 SCL Awards – Billboard

The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) will honor Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese with their Spirit of Collaboration Award at the fifth Annual SCL Awards to be held Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The Spirit of Collaboration Award recognizes a composer/director relationship which has resulted in a prodigious body of work. Robertson worked in various capacities on 11 films Scorsese directed over a […]

todayJanuary 25, 2024 5

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Robbie Robertson was the chief craftsman behind The Band’s music

Open this photo in gallery:Music legend Robbie Robertson plays at the Windsor Arms in Toronto in 2011.Moe Doiron/The Globe and MailTwo things about Robbie Robertson: One, he was not self-effacing about his musical legacy; two, he had nothing at all to be modest about.He played electric guitar – a Telecaster or a Stratocaster, usually – as if it were a thug’s jackknife, and wrote lyrics with a novelist’s sense of […]

todayAugust 11, 2023 11

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Robbie Robertson: Six Nations remembers Canadian music icon

Six Nations of the Grand River is remembering Canadian music icon and The Band lead guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson. The Toronto-born artist was of Mohawk and Cayuga descent. He spent summers at the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve where his mother Rosemarie Dolly Chrysler grew up. “Six Nations of the Grand River sends its deepest condolences to Mr. Robertson’s family. He should be remembered […]

todayAugust 11, 2023 9

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Musician Robbie Robertson dies at 80

Open this photo in gallery:Robbie Robertson in 2020.Don DixonRobbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” mined and helped reshape American music, has died at 80.Robertson died surrounded by family, a statement from his manager said.From their years as Bob Dylan’s masterful backing group to their own stardom as embodiments of […]

todayAugust 9, 2023 13

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