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Part-Mohawk and Cayuga rock legend goes to the spirit world.

One of rock’s greatest songwriters and musicians, Robbie Robertson, has died at 80.

One of rock’s greatest songwriters and musicians, Robbie Robertson, has died at 80. His manager said he died Wednesday in Los Angeles, surrounded by family. As the guitarist and lead

The Canadian-born Robertson was a high school dropout and one-man melting pot — part-Jewish, part-Mohawk and Cayuga — who fell in love with the seemingly limitless sounds and byways of his adopted country.

A flyover of historic Lahaina showed entire neighborhoods that had been a vibrant vision of color and island life reduced to gray ash. Find out more about that and more

A flyover of historic Lahaina showed entire neighborhoods that had been a vibrant vision of color and island life reduced to gray ash. Find out more about that and more

Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek” mined American music and folklore and helped reshape contemporary rock, died Wednesday at 80. Robertson died surrounded by family in Los Angeles “after a long illness,” publicist Ray Costa said in…

As the guitarist and lead writer for The Band, Robertson mined American music and history for such classics as “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”

Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band, dies at 80 | 2023-08-10 12:07:49

Canadian-born musician long-acclaimed for his impact on American roots music