The Band was one of the most important acts of the 20th century. We rank their studio albums for deeper insight into how they ...

The Band got together at a pink home in Woodstock they called Big Pink and recorded their debut, Music from Big Pink, which included “The Weight.” (Previously the Band had been called Canadian ...

With "Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band," Lewis affords the musician the epitaph ...

His former band Manfred Mann tried to cop “The Weight”’s rustic vibe and tension-and-release chorus on their 1968 single “Fox On the Run,” but Paul Jones went ahead and covered the real ...

The Band's "The Weight" can be heard in a new Super Bowl LVIII commercial for Budweiser.. What begins as an instrumental version of the track eventually opens up into the original song. Released ...

Robbie Robertson told us how this simple change helped the Band save "The Weight" from oblivion. Christopher Scapelliti. Fri, December 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM UTC. 6 min read.