The Arkansas-native and drummer in The Band died of throat cancer.
He sang lead on “Up on Cripple Creek,” “Weight,” “Ophelia” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”
Martin Scorsese directed The Last Waltz about The Band which is how I learned about them.
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