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 ...

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band whose farewell show with the group was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary The Last ...

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 ...

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on Cripple Creek,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trending on Billboard He officially began playing with The Band in 1965, after they had served a two-year apprenticeship as the back-up group for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. The Hawks — as ...

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 ...