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Robbie Robertson, the lead guitarist and chief songwriter of The Band, died on August 9th at the age of 80.
Robertson was born in 1943 in Ontario, Canada, to a Native American woman and a small-time Jewish gangster.
Robertson’s distinctive guitar style synthesized blues and rock into a volcanic whole.
Robbie Robertson was a delayed child prodigy, writing one great rock n’ roll song as a teenager.
Robertson’s talent would erupt only after he encountered the greatest popular songwriter of the 20th century.
Without Dylan, Robertson would never have learned the virtues of distortion and volume of volume.
Bob Greene: Robertson's genius would be revealed on The Band's eternally seminal debut album, Music From Big Pink.
He says Robertson's talent as a chronicler of America’s collective unconscious was fully realized in 1970.
Greene: The Band felt like a work of the 19th century, when manifest destiny was about to be realized.
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