Robbie Robertson

The tbs documentary "the Native Americans" was gorgeous, unsettling, provocative. So is
Robertson's music for it. With the Band, Robertson created one of the most extraordinary
canons in modern pop; a kind of alternative Americana, his songs were honky-tonk fables
of heroes and villains set to tunes of a wondrous carnival spirit. Robertson's mother was a
Mohawk raised on Canada's Six Nations reservation; he now reclaims an earlier A... More >