Garth Hudson, the multitalented musical genius who elevated The Band while remaining its most reserved member, died Tuesday. He was 87. Hudson, who was the last surviving member of the group, died in ...

The last surviving member of the legendary "Up On Cripple Creek" group died in his sleep on Monday morning (Jan. 21).

He joined the Capers, with whom he backed up touring musicians like Johnny Cash and Bill Haley, and later Ronnie Hawkins’ backing band the Hawks with Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel ...

Hudson was the eldest and last surviving member of the influential group that once backed Bob Dylan, according to an obituary by the Associated ... the early 1960s as a backing group for rocker Ronnie ...

Formed in the early 1960s as a backing group for rocker Ronnie Hawkins, the Band was originally called The Hawks and featured the Arkansas-born Helm and four Canadians recruited by Helm and ...

Garth Hudson, a virtuoso keyboardist who helped shape the roots rock sound of the Band, the revered group that performed with Bob Dylan and fused folk, rock, jazz, R&B and country in an ...

He soon had the opportunity. In 1961 he was approached by the Canadian rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins to join his band, the Hawks; Hudson hesitated, fearing the reaction of his conservative ...

Rolling Stone magazine, in its obituary of Hudson ... which at that time was the backing band for the rockabilly singer, Ronnie Hawkins. Of his bandmates, Richard Manuel was found dead in ...

Hudson was the eldest and last surviving member of the influential group that once backed Bob Dylan, according to an obituary by ... backing group for rocker Ronnie Hawkins, The Band was ...

This made the arrangement more palatable to his parents. At first, the group backed rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins and was known as the Hawks. Hudson was an odd fit initially, Robertson wrote in ...