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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

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Get this straight: nothing was Robbie's fault. It was all those secondary guys in the (The) band (Band), especially crazy paranoid junkie Levon.

I have no idea what the truth is. This is a truth, certainly; certainly there are others. But this truth is emphatically Robbie Robertson's, with the other talking heads confirming it or providing easily dismissed (or ignored) countertestimony. Which, OK, fine: it pretends to nothing else, and for someone who has enjoyed the music without getting much into the mythology, it's a chance to hear some of the former and get a one-facet primer on the latter. Fair enough. But don't try to tell that to my Levon-loving friends.