Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and 1970s rock group the Band, including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and ...

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

With his bushy beard, high forehead ... Other Band songs that showcased Hudson's prowess were "Stage Fright," "Bessie Smith" and "It Makes No Difference." "Garth was a teacher, but much more ...

Hudson always had the mystique of the Old Man from the Mountains, with his string ties and the longest beard ever ... “There’s no question in my mind that, at the time, Garth was far and ...

The Band's Garth ... Hudson was the last surviving original member of the Band following Robbie Robertson's death at age 80 in 2023. Across a lifetime of music, Hudson — whose bushy beard ...

Garth Hudson, the stoic multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the Canadian roots-rock group the Band, died Tuesday at a nursing facility in his adopted hometown of Woodstock, N.Y. He was 87.

Garth Hudson ... not immediately available. Hudson had been living in a nursing home in upstate New York. A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson ... available. Hudson had been living in a nursing home in upstate New York. A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically ...

By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth ... no more words to sing. Instead, there’s an instrumental dialogue between Robbie Robertson’s guitar, twanging and moaning the blues, and Hudson ...