Guitar Player cover story went onsale just as the band themselves came to an end. Founding members Robbie Robertson and ...

The Band started as the backing group for Ronnie Hawkins before joining up with Bob Dylan for his epic 1966 tour. The following year, while Dylan was recovering from a motorcycle accident ...

That yowl was Hudson's organ. Like his bandmates, he got recruited by Fifties rockabilly vet Ronnie Hawkins for his back-up band, the Hawks. He grew up in Ontario, in a farming family.

He played in local bands before hooking up in the late 1950s with rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins' The Hawks, which eventually would feature many of his Band mates. The group would back Bob Dylan ...

The members of The Band had, after all, been playing together for 16 years. Starting in 1960, the teenagers cut their teeth backing rockabilly wild man Ronnie Hawkins on the rowdy roadhouse circuit.

I was hired by Ronnie Hawkins to be in The Hawks at 16 because ... Musically, we’d been playing together for eight years before we made The Band. We’d been out there gathering musicality ...