The onscreen stars of The Last Waltz will always be Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson, both of whom were galvanizing throughout Martin Scorsese‘s bittersweet 1978 film. Yet the project, conceived as the ...
Blues veteran recalls the “reefer” moment that landed him a job with his hero, the Gibson archtop that’s seen in the movie, ...
On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, one of rock and roll’s most influential groups, The Band, held its final concert. Featuring performances by Dr. John, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan, ...
A few of New Orleans’ finest musicians will join forces at the Joy Theater on Friday, November 25 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Band’s famed farewell concert, The Last Waltz. Dave Malone, ...
Whoever told me once that Los Angeles is the kind of town that’ll chew you up and spit you out had clearly never ridden in an American Airlines airbus suspended in the cruel chasms of a torn and ...
The tribute to the Band’s The Last Waltz at the hi-dive on Wednesday, November 26, is a nod to the concert highlighted in Martin Scorsese’s 1978 film that’s widely viewed as one of the best music ...
In the early 2000s, when guitarist and vocalist Kris Gloer was playing small jam-band shows with his group Hound Dog at venues such as Fuzzy’s Place, the Highlander, Blind Willie’s and Blues Harbor, ...