Stephen T. Lewis wrote ‘Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from The Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band’ after deep dives into archival materials and original interviews.

The studio setup and the internal fraying of The Band led to a newly ad hoc record-making process, where only a couple of ...

“I felt like there was a big gap,” he says about the story of the Band, which also included Richard Manuel, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson.

Seen here are the Hawks, left to right, Rick Danko, Manuel, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Robbie Robertson. (Photo courtesy of Bill Avis and Jerome Levon Avis) In “Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, ...

Bob Dylan and the Band's 'The Basement Tapes' finally arrived on June 26, 1975, after years of bootlegs.