Canadian musician Robbie Robertson dies at 80: multiple reports
As the guitarist and lead writer for The Band, Robertson mined American music and history for such classics as "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."
He later worked on the soundtracks for several Martin Scorsese movies, including "The Departed" and "The Irishman." Robertson was a self-taught musicologist and storyteller who absorbed everything American from the novels of William Faulkner to the scorching blues of Howlin' Wolf to the gospel harmonies of the Swan Silvertones.
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