Everybody just forgot to come back.. According to sources close to Garth Hudson, ongoing letter writing campaigns sharing Garth's current address publicly are being discouraged. Well we got to hear him play The Weight that night. I cant help feeling there is only so far he wants to go. Garth Hudson,like this handsome ol boy,was born in Windsor,Ont.,Can.,but unlike Yours Truly,he left as an infant. Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns. And although a few years ago he and Dylan ran into each other at an event and caught up a bit, they have less in common now. This past spring, Richard Bernstein investigated the questions hed been asking his whole careerabout right, wrong, and what we owe one anotherone last time. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. "We're talking long term. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. In fact he died a year later I recall. Please do yourself the favor and please investigate this music of The Band . I had this fear inside Robbie Robertson. It really contains a huge piece of music history and shows the respect that band had from other artists Garth Hudson's wife and fellow performer "Sister" Maud Hudson recently passed away on February 27th. Thats how he met and formed a bond with the bands drummer, a lanky Arkansas native named Levon Helm. It often feels like a direct response to Helm's version of the story; in extensive interviews, Robertson heaps praise on his bandmates and reminisces wistfully about their best years together. On the other hand, I don't know what else Robertson could have done. We played the Chitlin Circuit, we heard incredible gospel music, fantastic mountain music, great blues, and tremendous rock and roll, Robertson said a couple of days after the premire, seated on a white leather banquette in the Pleiades bar, in the Surrey hotel on Madison Avenue, as the Rolling Stones played from a speaker overhead. Gift Article . I never realized he was forgotten because he has continued to contribute to so many projects besides The Band. ! (He then asks the mystery videographer to turn off the light and stop filming. The guys called Garth Honey Boy because he sweetened up the music after they had left for the day. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife Sandy. But with so much else going on, and the isolation bred over the last couple of years, that sure is how many of us can feel at times. After all, Helm was critical of Robertson in his 1993 autobiography, This Wheels on Fire, for the way he distributed songwriting credits (Robertson got most of them). So it falls to Robertson to tell the Bands story and, by telling it, to own it. It could be dark. Its just not the cloth Im cut from.. It feels sentimental and bittersweet, with Robertson coming across as a thoughtful, respectful, vaguely professorial figure who, though he may be slandered, is determined to remain above the fray.