They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong ...

Raised in an insular Protestant community, Garth Hudson defined musical greatness while finding a way to survive it.

(“The Anglican church has the best musical traditions of any church that I know of,” he told author Barney Hoskyns ... became the Band in 1967 with their debut LP, Music From Big Pink, Hudson ...

"Garth was different," Hawkins told Barney Hoskyns in "Across the Great Divide," his 1993 book about the Band. "He heard all sorts of weird sounds in his head, and he played like the Phantom of the ...

But as Hudson put it in Across the Great Divide, Barney Hoskyns’ classic history of the Band, “Unfortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of rock & roll music it is necessary ...

“Garth was different,” Hawkins told Barney Hoskyns in “Across the ... was paid an additional $10 per week to teach his band mates music, to mollify his dubious parents – became the eldest ...

Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best embodies the glorious, lawless amalgamation of styles at the very heart of rock ...

Next, Neville formed Art Neville and the Neville Sounds with brothers Aaron and Cyril. By 1965, that band morphed into the Meters, which created New Orleans funk. As the house band for Allen Toussaint ...

Art Neville formed the Meters in New Orleans in 1965. The funk band would exist in many incarnations into the 2010s.

Together with fellow fretboard luminaries Joe Pass, Charlie Byrd, and Barney Kessell ... of styles (embracing jam band funk, orchestral jazz, and even country music). Something of a musical ...