Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson, OC, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his work as lead guitarist and primary songwriter for The Band. As a songwriter, he is credited for "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Broken Arrow", "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and many others. He has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 July 1943
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
I think the world of Chuck Berry.
Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'
I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.
In 1966, when we were playing that music, ... people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated it.
In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.