The alternative for Hudson was not competing at all. The Hawks previously shared a program with Clinton, though that arrangement ended in 2022, leaving Hudson without a team last season.

when Hudson was first approached by Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm to join their band, then called the Hawks. Though he initially declined, by December of that year Hudson was lured into the group ...

Once Hudson joined, Helm wrote in his memoir, This Wheel’s on Fire, “We really thought we were the best band in the world.” The Hawks soon parted ways with Hawkins, who was a strict ...

Garth Hudson, keyboardist and last surviving founding ... and later Ronnie Hawkins’ backing band the Hawks with Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, and Rick Danko.

The opportunity came in 1961, when Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm approached him about joining Hawkins’ backing band, the Hawks. After initially refusing, Hudson joined the band on the condition ...

After splitting in 1963 with Hawkins, whom they came to view as a parsimonious disciplinarian, the group recorded singles as the Canadian Squires and Levon & the Hawks. Hudson, Helm and Robertson ...