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Garth Hudson, 1937 – 2025

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Canadian rocker Garth Hudson, most famously of The Band, died on Jan. 21. He was 87. The Band, formed in 1957, gained force through the 1960s and’70s, with such Southern, rockabilly-tinged hits as “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “The Shape I'm In,” and “On a Night Like This” (with Bob Dylan). They were featured in Martin Scorsese’s cult concert film The Last Waltz (1978), filmed at a 1976 concert in San Francisco. The Band disbanded shortly thereafter, and Hudson was the last remaining member when he died. Hudson expressed a fondness for many musical roots: “Those old songs have always been a part of me,” he told The Woodstock Times. “Those old musical styles, like Paul Whiteman. Since the early days with The Band, I've used fills that I took from old hymns, and songs in Canada Sings.” Of his sheet music collection, Hudson said that "I'll always pick it up if it's got the name of a state in the song, like the ‘Missouri Waltz,’ or if it's a national song for America or Canada, or if it's about the Second World War, like ‘G.I. Jive'.  I like Hawaiian songs, like 'I want to Go Back to My Little Grass Shack.' And I like anything by Stephen Foster."



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