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Across the Great Divide - The Band and America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Across the Great Divide - The Band and America (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Band was one of the most celebrated and influential groups to
arrive on the music scene in the late 1960s. The Band's members -
Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and
Levon Helm - fashioned something magically new out of musically
traditional components: old-time country and gospel, Preservation
Hall jazz, medicine-show vaudeville. They started as The Hawks, a
teenage backup group for the rockabilly renegade Ronnie Hawkins,
touring the endless highways through the heart of the South.
Eventually they headed north, where they left Hawkins to become Bob
Dylan's band on the revolutionary electric tours of 1965 and 1966.
From there they retreated to Woodstock, and, during a period of
intense personal closeness and creativity, produced two of the
hallmark albums of the era. When The Band finally emerged from
their Woodstock home they found themselves ill-equipped to deal
with the realities of fame and the music business. Stage fright,
drug addictions and growing bad feelings within the group led them
to quit with the star-studded farewell of "The Last Waltz" in 1976.
A few years later Richard Manuel hung himself in the bathroom of
the Winter Park Quality Inn.
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