Just published for the first time: Our revelatory 2020 interview with the late Robbie Robertson on his work with the Band, Bob Dylan, and more ⬇️
And I understood that Levon was having a tough time later on, and that’s why I never said a thing. He was having a struggle, and he always was really good at finding someone else to blame for what was happening. He had gone down the whole list of everybody, and I was the only one left. And so, I wasn’t surprised no matter what he said or what he might’ve thought from his point of view, but he saw it from one angle. And I wrote the book and I saw it from my angle.
You’d be with Bob Dylan at Big Pink, and you’d see him typing lyrics on the typewriter. A lot of people in that position would say, “Bob Dylan’s right there. Who am I to write songs instead?” It seems to have pushed you quite the other way. Musicians who were around when the Band’s debut came out universally say what a revelation the restraint, the dignity, the song-focused approaches were, versus, say Cream. It was a radical shift that was incredibly influential. How conscious were you of the almost oppositional nature of what you were doing?
The chordal licks that became a huge part of your sound, versus the stabby single-note leads, did that come in part from people like Steve Cropper or Pops Staples?
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