Robertson has been through a lot of controversy with credits, but he needs to be remembered as one of the best songwriters of the 20th century. And one hell of a guitar player. One of the last of a sadly dying breed. I love everything he's ever done, from The Hawks, to backing Dylan, to The Band, to his solo stuff. Respect.
Such silliness. Levon was many great things, but he wasn’t a songwriter. Not during the Band and especially not after. Not one tune. And he had no specifics about what when and how. It’s not Robbie’s fault that the guys spent their money. They all made millions you know. When Levon was broke and sick he began to make loud claims about writing stuff. Bless his heart. He just didn’t write songs.
What controversy? Robbie wrote the tunes. Period. Sorry. It’s the same in every band. 1 or 2 guys have the special sauce and write the songs. The rest are sidemen and they get less money and they get pissed off. They shouldn’t because they get to go along for the ride
@@dgrant7291No way, he learned this from his Mohawk side family!!! He taught this to the Band, we're story tellers lol. He gave an interview about it.
As you might figure Robbie has associated himself with some great musicians . I can tell from the few songs I have heard this newer album is destined to be one of my favorites
It's amazing that Crazy River didn't even start out as a song. Robbie was just telling a story in the studio and Daniel Lanois recorded it and convinced him to turn it into a song
got the sound feel and lift of The Band for me... but if I designed the universe, immortality would be granted to Levon and Rick and Richard and Robbie and Garth and anyone else who was drawn into creating this perfect (to my ears) sound
My favourite "Mohawk recording artist"! ( I saw a documentary on the Canadian aboriginal network APTN with a few clips of interview snippets with Robbie, captioned "Mohawk recording artist")... "Making some noise!"
Apparently- the "Last Waltz" wasn't the last waltz! He cast his spell back in 2011 June. With Robert Randolph and the Roots. Doesn't get any better than this!
I get your point, not exactly a classic singing voice. But only Robbie can convey his words they were intended to be heard in my opinion. Some prefer a more saccharine sound like Rod Stewart singing Broken Arrow. Same people say the same thing about Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen's voice as well. I myself like his voice as well as Waits, Dylan and Cohen and don't need to hear autotune blandness. Don't get why people take the time to say something pissy?
Rods a showman, an entertainer, who has musicians and songwriters to create everything else.and Robbie is a "true artist" who is both a VERY ACCOMPLISHED songwriter and musician ALONG with performing his music. Huge Huge difference imo
Indeed- (to both comments)… Gawd bless ol Rod, he’s a rocker (@ heart) & Can Sing 🤷🏻♂️ - the ‘early stuff’ was great! 👍 …but pul-ease give me Tom singing Downtown Train, the late great Danny Whitten doing HIS tune ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk About It’…☝️😩 - I didn’t even know Rod covered/smothered(?) Broken Arrow…🤷🏻 & I sure didn’t need to☝️😆…but good on him, & may his tuxedo always be well pressed 🤔 Cheers 🍻 🦆
Listening to all these great late night show recordings from 80s and 90s in the wake now, I'm actually pretty impressed with his range of styles, technique... He's worked hard at singing probably, just like guitar. And his voice has charisma, which can't be developed (that much)
sold and filed away or ended up in resale bins, decent album because everyone was inquisitive about what it would sound like. he finally found another type voice to attempt to sing with. not bad an album doubt it sold more than the bands second album or the last waltz
I've changed my opinion some over a year later since that post...I love all of The Band equally...but for you to say "Robbie was "The Band" is more generic than what I previously said. Robbie was the main song-writer..Every member was talented without each other band member on there own, but THE BAND wasn't THE BAND without each member. It's called a group design process...I personally love Robbie, Levon and Ricks, Garth's solo stuff..You just gotta realize that the 5 made The Band, not one man.
@@trple2 the writing is very important. There have been countless great singers who are forgotten because the songs weren't written well. The lyrics and the music are what make a song timeless.
Loved the Band . Yea great history. Musics my thing not the personality crap and politics that go along w/ everything we touch. Let the music touch the soul and free the spirit.
Also, Robbie was one of the only musicians from his generation (or any) who who believed in the groove. Bruce, Elvis, Zevon, Neil, I love them but they just plod on. Life Is A Carnival and others. Robbie dug black music and the rhythm was very important to him.
The rest of the Band on a small scale attempted to write a few songs but none of any consequence or widespread success. Robbie released solo work that has many fans that don't even know who the band were. The reality is Levon didn't have any musical success until Steve Earle wrote him some songs like the Dirt Farmer album. Levon as good as a singer and musician he was just didn't have any song writing ability. Robbie was the song writing talent, his self-penned successful solo work proves it.
Oh, and where all the great post-1976 songs composed by Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, or Richard Manuel? Robbie's the only one who has continue to make fine music that he's written himself. They're all brilliant musicians but the idea that they were co-creators of some of the greatest songs ever written and then just stopped turning out original material just doesn't hold water.
You are delusional. Levon released several solo albums, and won two Grammy's. (Look it up) We've hardly heard 'boo' from Robbie in that stretch. Maybe two good songs???????
Look these up: Rick Danko - "You Can Go Home" for example, and the many songs he co-wrote with Danko/Fjeld/Anderson and on The Band's 90s albums. Levon Helm - Co-wrote many songs on The Band's 90s albums and "Growin' Trade" with Larry Campbell Garth Hudson - "Webster Hall" for Raging Bull and "French Girls" for The Band's 1998 album Jubilation. He has also written two solo albums worth of original compositions. Richard Manuel - Said to have written many half-finished, unreleased songs.
Sorry Bigseer but you are wrong!!! Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm all had solo albums with original songs...not to mention there is controversy between Levon(rip) and Robbie over songwriting credits for a good number of Band songs....
And unless we were tgere when the songs were written, and none of us were, we must take into account all statements by members of the Band. Why is it that Robbies statements are the only ones to believe? If Levon said he co-wrote songs, then I believe him! It happens all the time in bands, fighting over who created what and this and that....concept is is that they were a "band" and that means a team! Just enjoy the gifts they gave us because we will never see anything like the Band ever again!!
Place Robbie With ANY bandmates and great music will be the result. Sure the OTHER GUYs could sing and play instruments but The Band was just not the same without Robbie was it? Why... he just told you and sung about it didn't he lol
Robertson has been through a lot of controversy with credits, but he needs to be remembered as one of the best songwriters of the 20th century. And one hell of a guitar player. One of the last of a sadly dying breed. I love everything he's ever done, from The Hawks, to backing Dylan, to The Band, to his solo stuff. Respect.
I totally agree!
Such silliness. Levon was many great things, but he wasn’t a songwriter. Not during the Band and especially not after. Not one tune. And he had no specifics about what when and how. It’s not Robbie’s fault that the guys spent their money. They all made millions you know. When Levon was broke and sick he began to make loud claims about writing stuff. Bless his heart. He just didn’t write songs.
@peterzang Indeed. I think Levon was just jealous on Robbies' talent.
What controversy? Robbie wrote the tunes. Period. Sorry. It’s the same in every band. 1 or 2 guys have the special sauce and write the songs. The rest are sidemen and they get less money and they get pissed off. They shouldn’t because they get to go along for the ride
Absolutely brother!
Preach!
The man is magical, a wizard!
Robbie Robertson, the Indian that rocked the World. Thanks for the music and stories. Rest In Peace Haudenosaunee
Rest in Power Robbie.... thank you for the soundtrack of my life.
same here
Amen. I'm 81 and I love you still. Rest in peace and happiness.
RIP Robbie! Thank you for your amazing gifts of music and story telling.
You seem way too excited to say rest in peace....
I am guessing you are one of those guys that if he cries, does so very quietly.@@Bornelvibe
This is right down funky !!!! Robbie still can rock.
Amazing that he is 67 here and had been a professional musician for 51 years!
Elaine Beaudry he’s 76
Sebastian Robertson he wasn’t in 2011. Hey, aren’t you Robbie’s son?
Why? Musicians improve.
Go well on your sprit journey Robbie! Thanks for the music eh!
That's the way it's done Ladies and Gentlemen!! Incredible tone on everything!! My hero!!! Peace brother
Robbie Robertson is a storyteller as much as he is a musician. Lyrics are like fine literature in all his songs.
He learned a lot about those things from being in the Band and backing up Dylan.
Bolllocks
@@patrickmurphy1803 man, you are on a mission to desecrate Robbie! What’s wrong with you dude? I smell a ton of jealousy!
@@dgrant7291No way, he learned this from his Mohawk side family!!! He taught this to the Band, we're story tellers lol. He gave an interview about it.
omg.....what a killer performance,vocally,musically,blows the album version away.robbie is better than ever.......wow.
The band is having a ball playing with Robbie
Robbie Robertson was the best! When I was about 20 years old in 1990, I remember rocking out toThe Band on my way to work every morning!
Robbie Robertson, Robert Randolf & his band AND the Roots!!! Awesome!
He will be missed. R.I.P. Robbie.
Fantastic version of this song...very glad I stumbled on it!!
Mississippi Fred. How good is this. Amazing Robbo. We need more of this music.
This is òne of my favorites
Huge mad love to the family
I was such a fan much love on a sad day ❤
Robert Randolph is just amazing....
As you might figure Robbie has associated himself with some great musicians . I can tell from the few songs I have heard this newer album is destined to be one of my favorites
Thanks for this, Robbie Robertson is Hot!!! What a Great Band backing him up!!!!!!
Incredible! Unforgettable!
Love, love Robbie! Just loaded my lost CD "How To Be Clairvoyant" - Loving it all over again!!
He was very good. We were there for that Fallon show!
Right on Jimmy!
You had the man himself bless your show.
Glad I found this in my search. 🕉
Robbie keep it coming you magic man!
So Exceptional Thank You 🙏 Mr Robbie Robertson RIP 😢
He's not a singer the way Mark Knopgler is not a singer, but they both have a tremendous delivery that makes up for everything. I love this.
Knopfler would leave him in the halfpenny place grow up
Wow - I never realized that, but spot on. Both are amazing.
Love his voice!
A great singer.
i think he's great. And crazy river is a master song on it's on. I never heard any think like it before or after with that sound.
Yello, back in the 80s-ish, had something similar with Of Course I'm Lying (I think it was?) Anyway, yes, great song!
It's amazing that Crazy River didn't even start out as a song. Robbie was just telling a story in the studio and Daniel Lanois recorded it and convinced him to turn it into a song
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2 🇨🇦 legends‼️
got the sound feel and lift of The Band for me... but if I designed the universe, immortality would be granted to Levon and Rick and Richard and Robbie and Garth and anyone else who was drawn into creating this perfect (to my ears) sound
Dude! So sorry to see you go, thanks for the tunes. R.I.P.
And Robert Randolph playing with him excellent RIP ROBBIE 🙏
That there is music. Fantastic performance!
His guitar solo on this is the opening melody of Amazing Grace.
We honor Robbie in playing The Weight in our band at gigs...RIP Robbie...you are missed.
Can't miss with Robert Randolph. FUNKY Robbie❤
Pretty cool song
he and that was awesome!
My favourite "Mohawk recording artist"!
( I saw a documentary on the Canadian aboriginal network APTN with a few clips of interview snippets with Robbie, captioned "Mohawk recording artist")... "Making some noise!"
Hermesacat Robbie mom from my rez lol
Thanks Robbie
🎸 ❤️
Apparently- the "Last Waltz" wasn't the last waltz!
He cast his spell back in 2011 June.
With Robert Randolph and the Roots.
Doesn't get any better than this!
Amazing Grace
rockin' Robbie!
Soul music. Sad lyrics.
WTH? Had no idea Robbie put out another album, after his native roots one. Wow.
🙏
WOW just WOW
so natural...like breathing.baby you still got it and lots of it..keep breathing
This is so fab….
tyx so much for sharing ❤
The time's come for us to finish investigating all of Robbie Robertson's solo work.
... superb ....✌
Glad I came back for seconds.😎🌻
Excellent!!!
wow really cool
RIP, Robbie!!!
I get your point, not exactly a classic singing voice. But only Robbie can convey his words they were intended to be heard in my opinion. Some prefer a more saccharine sound like Rod Stewart singing Broken Arrow. Same people say the same thing about Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen's voice as well. I myself like his voice as well as Waits, Dylan and Cohen and don't need to hear autotune blandness. Don't get why people take the time to say something pissy?
Rods a showman, an entertainer, who has musicians and songwriters to create everything else.and Robbie is a "true artist" who is both a VERY ACCOMPLISHED songwriter and musician ALONG with performing his music. Huge Huge difference imo
Indeed- (to both comments)… Gawd bless ol Rod, he’s a rocker (@ heart) & Can Sing 🤷🏻♂️ - the ‘early stuff’ was great! 👍 …but pul-ease give me Tom singing Downtown Train, the late great Danny Whitten doing HIS tune ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk About It’…☝️😩 - I didn’t even know Rod covered/smothered(?) Broken Arrow…🤷🏻 & I sure didn’t need to☝️😆…but good on him, & may his tuxedo always be well pressed 🤔 Cheers 🍻 🦆
Absolutely 100% spot on. They were 5 parts = 1 whole
Listening to all these great late night show recordings from 80s and 90s in the wake now, I'm actually pretty impressed with his range of styles, technique... He's worked hard at singing probably, just like guitar. And his voice has charisma, which can't be developed (that much)
Lost another one. RIP Robbie.
Perfect
thanks so much!! i missed it :)
Our Canadian Bob Dylan, RIP bud. Music will live on. I'm sure there's a "Showdown at Big sky"
Well, don't forget Leonard Cohen!
Great God Almighty..RIP!
Tears to my eyes !!!!!!!! :-D !!!!!!!!!
❤️❤️❤️
HayastAnFedayi to the contrary Robbie's first solo album sold more copies than any of The Band records.
jrobbierobertson what a great album !
sold and filed away or ended up in resale bins, decent album because everyone was inquisitive about what it would sound like. he finally found another type voice to attempt to sing with. not bad an album
doubt it sold more than the bands second album or the last waltz
I've changed my opinion some over a year later since that post...I love all of The Band equally...but for you to say "Robbie was "The Band" is more generic than what I previously said. Robbie was the main song-writer..Every member was talented without each other band member on there own, but THE BAND wasn't THE BAND without each member. It's called a group design process...I personally love Robbie, Levon and Ricks, Garth's solo stuff..You just gotta realize that the 5 made The Band, not one man.
He literally wrote every great song they had.
@@reredrumuoy And Levon sang most of their greats. It ain't all just the writing.
@@trple2 the writing is very important. There have been countless great singers who are forgotten because the songs weren't written well. The lyrics and the music are what make a song timeless.
@@trple2 Rick and Richard sang as well.
@@reredrumuoy Yes, I know. My favorite songs are Levon. They're all great though.
Loved the Band . Yea great history. Musics my thing not the personality crap and politics that go along w/ everything we touch. Let the music touch the soul and free the spirit.
this has "The Band" sound for sure !! nice
Heavy af
R.I.P Robbie
RIP Robbie :(
Also, Robbie was one of the only musicians from his generation (or any) who who believed in the groove. Bruce, Elvis, Zevon, Neil, I love them but they just plod on. Life Is A Carnival and others. Robbie dug black music and the rhythm was very important to him.
Guitar solo based on amazing grace...
Pretty darn 👍
The rest of the Band on a small scale attempted to write a few songs but none of any consequence or widespread success. Robbie released solo work that has many fans that don't even know who the band were. The reality is Levon didn't have any musical success until Steve Earle wrote him some songs like the Dirt Farmer album. Levon as good as a singer and musician he was just didn't have any song writing ability. Robbie was the song writing talent, his self-penned successful solo work proves it.
Great musicians, not songwriters robbie wrote a few early ,but just a few since ,78 he's been sporadic t say the least OVERRATED
GREAT CINEMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!INDEED! ! ! !.
🌟👋🙏🙏
As talented as the rest of The Band was, RR has continually shown why he was the major force behind The Greatness of The Band.
sarcasm obv....?
haha
Jeffry Smith=truth!!!!
I'm 68 as Robbie Robertson was in this video. Not crazy about getting old, but the only other option is the curtain call. John 3:16
Take it
has a bit of Bromberg's 'Sharon' to it
RIP
I would've liked to hear Levon sing this song.
Robbie is talking it more than singing. Vocals here suck.
Oh, and where all the great post-1976 songs composed by Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, or Richard Manuel? Robbie's the only one who has continue to make fine music that he's written himself. They're all brilliant musicians but the idea that they were co-creators of some of the greatest songs ever written and then just stopped turning out original material just doesn't hold water.
You are delusional. Levon released several solo albums, and won two Grammy's. (Look it up) We've hardly heard 'boo' from Robbie in that stretch. Maybe two good songs???????
But almost all of Levon’s (good) albums are covers with a couple co writes credited to him. The point holds up
Look these up:
Rick Danko - "You Can Go Home" for example, and the many songs he co-wrote with Danko/Fjeld/Anderson and on The Band's 90s albums.
Levon Helm - Co-wrote many songs on The Band's 90s albums and "Growin' Trade" with Larry Campbell
Garth Hudson - "Webster Hall" for Raging Bull and "French Girls" for The Band's 1998 album Jubilation. He has also written two solo albums worth of original compositions.
Richard Manuel - Said to have written many half-finished, unreleased songs.
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@Free1108 Shit! Just listen to the album
Robbie should change his mind and tour again!
um good
sadly missed Robbie
Jimmy Fallon didn’t have a show in 2011
I hate to say it, it's sad to type even, but there's only 1 band member left besides Robbie himself man...
@cdphatty I like the way you think!
Sorry Bigseer but you are wrong!!! Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm all had solo albums with original songs...not to mention there is controversy between Levon(rip) and Robbie over songwriting credits for a good number of Band songs....
what a great songwriter and guitar player, but as a vocalist, you can see Levon, Rick and Richard were chosen to be their main singers in The Band
Most of us get the obvious…Robbie, like any great, plays & writes to his strengths.
Sounds great....drums are a bit loud
Said
i thought Levon did do some good stuff post 76....disagree? RR was an amazing songwriter.....no debate there.
Levon won two Grammy's. Robbie.............?
And unless we were tgere when the songs were written, and none of us were, we must take into account all statements by members of the Band. Why is it that Robbies statements are the only ones to believe? If Levon said he co-wrote songs, then I believe him! It happens all the time in bands, fighting over who created what and this and that....concept is is that they were a "band" and that means a team! Just enjoy the gifts they gave us because we will never see anything like the Band ever again!!
This stuffs as good as anything Beethoven ever did. Grab a harmonica Ludwig and start cookin'!
Place Robbie With ANY bandmates and great music will be the result. Sure the OTHER GUYs could sing and play instruments but The Band was just not the same without Robbie was it? Why... he just told you and sung about it didn't he lol
why you say this???/
This is a good reminder why. LOL