The group was joined onstage by King Calaway and Marcus King
to the master storyteller who helped forever change America’s pop-culture landscape. Each artist joined in to sing and rock out to the chorus, belting out, “Take a load off Fanny/Take a load for free/Take a load off Fanny and you put the load right on me.”, Robertson attempted to explain how he wrote “The Weight.” “I thought of a couple of words that led to a couple more,” he said. “The next thing I know I wrote the song.
The single went on to become one of the greatest songs in American history, generating cover versions by the Staple Singers, Joe Cocker, the Grateful Dead, Aretha Franklin, and countless others.
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