My first date with Dianna — best friend, wife and frequent editor — was to see The Band. She introduced me to the legendary rock group’s music, and we went to their 1970 concert in Madison, Wisc.

“People like us play their music or it eventually just fades away,” said Daniel Cervantes, guitarist and vocalist with Mrs.

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The music in heaven just got a whole lot sweeter now that Honey Boy is home,” Old Dutch Church Church Pastor Robert Sweeney said at Garth Hudson’s funeral on ...

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Keyboardist Garth Hudson, perhaps best known for his powerful and memorable Lowrey organ intro for the classic Band song “Chest Fever,” has died at 87.

Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best ...

Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and '70s rock group the Band including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and ...

Garth Hudson recently passed away on January ... piano, and synthesizer. Chest Fever, The Weight, This Wheel’s On Fire, Rag Mama Rag, Up on Cripple Creek, Tears of Rage, and When I Paint My ...

Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist and ... but he did have one showcase: "Chest Fever," a Robbie Robertson composition for which he devised an introductory organ solo ("The Genetic ...