One archival interview remembered Dylan being “blown away” by his first time seeing Hudson perform, and the two worked together several times through the late Seventies. “The wonderful thing in working with Dylan was the imagery in his lyrics,” Hudson once said. “I was allowed to play with these words.”

Bob Dylan has shared a tribute to the late Garth Hudson – The Band’s longtime keyboardist and organist – just days after the beloved Canadian musician’s death at the age of 87.

Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best embodies the glorious, lawless amalgamation of styles at the very heart of rock and roll—died at the age of eighty-seven,

Bob Dylan has returned to his favorite social-media cesspool of choice, X, not to review a trio of SNL curveballs from a certain young admirer but to instead memorialize a recently deceased friend and collaborator.