Saturday, May 23, 2026

Bob Dylan Post a Remembrance of The Late Garth Hudson: “The real driving force behind The Band”

Share

Bob Dylan — I’ve never written so much about him in my life! Suddenly he’s everywhere!

Now Dylan has posted a nice remembrance of Garth Hudson, calling him “the driving forced behind The Band.” Robbie and Levon may be surprised to hear that!

Dylan made a lot of music with The Band, so he knows. And now he’s outlived all of them.

Dylan, meantime, has just announced more tour dates. He’s starting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, home of the Bob Dylan Center, where all his archives are stored.

Bob says to listen to The Weight, which you can below:

Donate to Showbiz411.com

Showbiz411 is now in its 13th year of providing breaking and exclusive entertainment news. This is an independent site, unlike the many Hollywood trades that are owned by one company. To continue providing news that takes a fresh look at what's going on in movies, music, theater, etc, advertising is our basis. Reader donations would be greatly appreciated, too. They are just another facet of keeping fact based journalism alive.
Thank you


Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

Read more

In Other News