Garth Hudson was the mystery man in the Band ... Like his bandmates, he got recruited by Fifties rockabilly vet Ronnie Hawkins for his back-up band, the Hawks. He grew up in Ontario, in a farming ...

Eric “Garth” Hudson was born to musician parents ... In his early twenties, to his parents’ alarm, he joined Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm in a rock band called the Hawks, assuaging his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist ... Formed in the early 1960s as a backing group for rocker Ronnie Hawkins, the Band was originally called The Hawks and featured ...

Garth Hudson, the inventive keyboard player ... two-year apprenticeship as the back-up group for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. The Hawks — as they were known — left Hawkins’ employ ...

Garth Hudson, the stoic multi-instrumentalist and ... Band when they were hired to tour with rock ’n' roll singer Ronnie Hawkins. Within a few years, the Hawks gelled into a studied, tight ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around ... Formed in the early 1960s as a backing group for rocker Ronnie Hawkins, the Band was originally called The Hawks and ...