Danko, Rick

Danko, Rick
▪ 2000

      Canadian-born musician

born Dec. 29, 1942, Simcoe, Ont.

died Dec. 10, 1999, Marbletown, N.Y.
played bass and other instruments and was a lead vocalist in the seminal rock group the Band, whose music drew on the American past and presaged the roots-based music genre called Americana. In the early 1960s Danko, together with Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson, made up the Hawks, the backup band for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. Bob Dylan then hired them to play with him on his first electric tour. The Band's first two albums, Music from Big Pink (1968) and The Band (1969), brought them widespread attention and acclaim. Among the songs that showcase Danko's haunting vocals are “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” and, from the Band's third album, “Stagefright.” The group disbanded in 1976 after a concert memorialized in the Martin Scorsese film The Last Waltz (1978). Danko continued to record and tour, both on his own and with other musicians, and from 1983 the Band, without Robertson (and, after 1986, also without the late Manuel), re-formed and continued to perform and record throughout the 1980s and '90s. Danko and the Band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

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