Robbie Robertson recently sat down with Rolling Stone's Patrick Doyle to talk about how The Band played together for seven years before recording an album, the evolution of his guitar style in the early days of the group and how "The Weight" went from being an extra song written for Music From Big Pink to an enduring rock classic.
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