Hudson always had the mystique of the Old Man from the Mountains, with his string ties and the longest beard ever seen in rock & roll. He came on like a woodsy sage who'd landed in a band by mistake.

It’s so fitting that Garth Hudson was the last man standing from the Band.The beloved organ virtuoso died on Tuesday morning at 87, near Woodstock, New York — just a few miles down the road ...

Hudson was the oldest member of the Band and the only one who did not sing. With his bushy beard, high forehead and bear-like presence, he was perhaps the group’s most recognizable member.

Garth Hudson in 2014. ... Hudson was 77 at the time, but he looked at least a decade older with a long white beard that made him resemble a 19th century prospector. Advertisement.

Garth Hudson, the Band’s ... A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer and self ... a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or ...

Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko of The Band in 1971. Redferns. As a solo artist, Hudson released two studio albums, one in 1980 and another in 2001, and a ...

Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87 A rustic man with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer who ...

Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and 1970s rock group the Band, including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and ...

Garth Hudson, the stoic multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the Canadian roots-rock group the Band, died Tuesday at a nursing facility in his adopted hometown of Woodstock, N.Y.

Garth Hudson was the mystery man in the Band, the silent one, the only one who didn’t sing. He was years older than the others, already in his thirties when they made their classic 1968 debut ...