Remembering the leader of The Band.
, a history of Native Americans made for the cable channel TBS, that laid the groundwork for. All three efforts allowed Robertson to dive into the literal and metaphysical environments that helped shape him but that he wasn't always comfortable revisiting.
Overcoming these feelings was a gradual process, Robertson says."It wasn't a single incident at all, but a culmination of a whole bunch of things," he says."I saw books starting to be published, and there was an openness that I could hear in people's conversations and attitudes that I could hear, and that was different from before. I could hear a respect factor—a respect for people who understood that God is the earth and the sky and the gift of life.
In this regard, Robertson is a rarity among rock veterans. Even Dylan has shied away from branching out into new aural territory; his, from last year, may have won lots of Grammy nominations and topped critics' polls, but musically, it's hardly different from the albums he was making three decades ago.
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