In 1966 Bob Dylan began his first electric world tour. It
was a landmark moment, both for Dylan and for the history of rock music, and it
bitterly divided his audience.
Backing Dylan on stage was an obscure group of Canadian
musicians collectively known as The Hawks. In the months following the tour
they would join Dylan during a lengthy convalescence in New York's Catskill
Mountains; when both parties re-emerged, Dylan had undergone an artistic
transformation that sent ripples across American music and The Hawks had become
simply 'The Band', one of the most important recording groups of their
generation.
This is the story of the relationship between Dylan and The
Band, the legendary amateur recordings that they made together in Woodstock,
their re-invention of American music and their continued albeit sporadic
relationship during the 1970s.
Check out the trailer here!
Featuring new interviews with Garth Hudson; Band
producer John Simon; The Hawks' 66 tour drummer, Mickey Jones; the man who
assembled and tutored the Hawks and from whom they took their name, Ronnie
Hawkins; Dylan guitarist, Charlie McCoy; Band biographer Barney Hoskyns;
Basement Tapes Archivist, Sid Griffin, Isis magazine's Derek Barker and Rolling
Stone's Anthony De Curtis.
Also features rare footage, archive interviews, seldom seen
photographs and the music that changed the world, all at once making for the
finest program on this element of Bob Dylan and The Band's respective and
communal careers yet to emerge.
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