Garth Hudson Eric Garth Hudson was born August 2, 1937 in Windsor, Ontario (Canada). Before he joined Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks in 61, he played piano and sax in The Capers, lead by Paul London. They played decent rock n roll, which can be heard on some recordings of that time. When in The Hawks, Garth taught other members to learn about music some more. He was pretty much in charge of the arrangements along with Robbie Robertson, when they changed their name to The Band. One intro has made a difference to the hard rock organ playing. In Chest Fever (68), his playing has affected so many keyboard players. After The Band dissolved, they reformed without Robbie Robertson but no such success followed them. Instead, Hudson has played on multiple sessions for the very greatest, such as Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen. The list is impressive. In later years, Garth has recorded solo material as well. He keeps being one of the most respected musicians around. “Never like this” is a laid back rocking twist song with a touch of novelty in it. The arrangement is more than a hint of things to come in popular music. Its double tracked chorus and guitar rhythms remind of the british Mersey beat arrangements. The guitar solo is well executed. The song is written by Billy Davis and Lamont Dozier. Both ended up writing many classics later for Jackie Wilson and to many Motown artists. https://youtube/watch?v=xC0uE20dI68 Garth Hudson was the co-producer of this teeny ballad by Don Crawford in 1959: https://youtube/watch?v=4uQ4eqHAUwM Paul London and The Capers singing about “Rosie Lee” in 1960, Garth on sax and organ: https://youtube/watch?v=GfOdrygsjtk The Band with their “Chest fever” in 1968: https://youtube/watch?v=h_7q9_EJYvE From the “Ringo” album in 1973, “Sunshine life for me”, written by George Harrison, Garth Hudson playing the accordion: discogs/Ringo-Starr-Ringo/release/1352005 By 1975, Garth played many kind of instruments in The Band songs. On this “Rags and bones” he is playing electric piano and synthesisers: https://youtube/watch?v=oLRUUBjj7Sg Neil Diamond recorded “Dry your eyes” by Robbie Robertson in 1976, Garth on organ: https://youtube/watch?v=0bey2aNhW_c Garth guested on David Lindley’s album in 1981, the song was “El Rayo X”: https://youtube/watch?v=D4GkgQZ8zMk “The best of everything” written by Tom Petty and performed with The Heartbreakers, from “Southern accents” album (1985), Garth playing and fellow Band member Richard Manuel on harmony vocals: https://youtube/watch?v=ELBC3fJOANM “American roulette” is on Robbie Robertson’s first solo album from 1987. Garth Hudson plays keyboards: https://youtube/watch?v=VopCK9QpXm8 Here Garth Hudson is playing various keyboards and saxophones on a compostion by Dvorak called “Largo” in 1998: https://youtube/watch?v=ftLGbP8C7DU In 2013, Hudson played keyboards on Joseph Arthur’s “I used to know how to walk on water”: https://youtube/watch?v=SK69Tfq-lQ8
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