![]() If you’ll forgive the segue, there is plenty of chemistry going on elsewhere in the issue. Were his songs different when he had The Band to play them? Yeah, well they had a word for it – chemistry.” Robbie wasn’t flashy, he didn’t solo pointlessly. “I mean, he was in right at the very beginning of this music, when he was recording with the Hawks when they were kids – he knew the score. “Robbie knew what was going on,” Van tell us. Van Morrison is also on hand to share his memories of Robertson, stretching back through many decades. You can read Richard’s definitive tribute to Robertson – which draws on his 1971 encounter with Robertson and his bandmates when they were in London to play the Royal Albert Hall – in the new issue. “A lot of people’s records that I really liked a couple of years ago, I listen to them now and I can’t understand how come I liked them so much… Timelessness is what I’m trying for, most of the time when it’s possible.” “The only thing I’m trying to do is write songs that if you listen to them in a couple of years, they’re not going to go down,” Robertson told Richard Williams, back in 1971. ![]() It’s not just his ability to conjure up a new form of American music along with the rest of The Band – music that was simultaneously ancient and modern, vibrant but sepia-toned – it’s the transcendent power of the songs that came with it. The Band’s music was a lodestone for many of us at Uncut – and for many of the musicians we write about – and the ‘vacancy’ left by Robertson can never be filled. ORDER NOW: The Who are on the cover of the latest UNCUT.His passing leaves a vacancy in the world.” ON August 11, two days after Robbie Robertson passed away, Bob Dylan released a rare public statement.
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