and Garth Hudson was the wise father figure, the glue guy who made that fantasy real. Hudson always had the mystique of the Old Man from the Mountains, with his string ties and the longest beard ...

AHudson was a classically trained performer who played piano, synthesizers, horns and his favored Lowrey organ.

Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and '70s rock group the Band including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and ...

The Band’s legacy is intertwined with that of Bob Dylan, so it’s good and right that Dylan has chimed in with a tribute to ...

The Band's Garth Hudson in 1969 ... Across a lifetime of music, Hudson — whose bushy beard, professorial demeanor and musical chops added a scholarly gravitas to the Band through his work ...

With his bushy beard, high forehead and bear-like presence ... Manuel died in 1986, Danko died in 1999 and Helm in 2012. Eric “Garth” Hudson was born in Windsor, Ontario, on Aug. 2, 1937.

The last of the five members of the iconic American rock group, The Band, Garth Hudson’s death is the end of an era.

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist ... A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer and self-educated ...