The last of the five members of the iconic American rock group, The Band, Garth Hudson’s death is the end of an era.

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Bob Dylan has announced his first tour dates of 2025, and posted a heartfelt tribute to late Band keyboardist Garth Hudson.

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On Tuesday, Garth Hudson ... the nineteen-sixties (though “The Basement Tapes” was not officially released until 1975). It’s hard to talk about Hudson’s contributions to the Band ...

Hudson was the last surviving original member of The Band, made up of musicians Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Levon Helm. His wife, Maud Hudson, died in 2022. Together, they had one ...

Garth Hudson ... of town shared by Hudson, Danko and Manuel. Hudson was in charge of the tape machine as Dylan and The Band ...

the house where the Band and Bob Dylan transformed music history just by jamming in the basement. Garth Hudson was the mystery man in the Band, the silent one, the only one who didn’t sing.

Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as "Up on Cripple ...

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 - just a few miles down the road from Big Pink, the ...

where Bob Dylan and The Band crafted legendary tracks known as the Basement Tapes. Garth Hudson meticulous approach to music arrangement set The Band apart from their contemporaries, allowing them ...