Among the new tracks uncovered for the set are seven songs recorded by Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel during a loose jam session in a hotel room in 1970; and alternate versions of ...

This song contains some of Robbie Robertson ... What gives it new life are the expert vocals of Levon Helm and Richard Manuel’s off-kilter drumming that provides a surprisingly funky beat ...

Within those earlier recordings, Manuel also penned another song on his own, the second Basement Tapes track “Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast).” Manuel initially laid the track down in ...

Manuel co-wrote the song with Bob Dylan during the famous rehearsal sessions in a house near Woodstock, New York, that yielded Dylan’s The Basement Tapes album. The melancholy tune features ...

who wrote the song. But it's the Band's version on their debut album, featuring a gorgeous vocal by Richard Manuel, that stands as the definitive one. So much heartbreak and hope for redemption.

On the album, bandmate Robbie Robertson also wrote a song about Manuel in mind ... (L to r) Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives ...

Each of the five men could play multiple instruments, meaning they could trade roles based on what each song needed. In addition, they boasted three standout singers in Levon Helm, Richard Manuel ...

Manuel sings the lead vocal on The Band’s recording of the song, and delivers what Greil Marcus calls in the album’s liner notes “the kind of love song only Richard Manuel can pull off.” ...

and Richard Manuel—he thought of himself as composing “movie songs.” “I was like their director,” Robertson, who is seventy-six, said the other day. “I knew each of their instruments ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Richard Manuel — best known as the pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band — will be the subject of a new biography by Stephen T. Lewis, arriving May 28 ...