Zac Brown Band covered “The Weight” in honor of Robbie Robertson ... wrote the hit song for the group’s debut studio album Music from Big Pink in 1968. A video capturing Sunday’s ...

“When the legendary Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler told me that he had recorded ‘The Weight’ with Aretha Franklin, I thought, how does it get better than that?” To have anyone ...

So for the cover of their 1975 album, the band sought a literal depiction of that with a stuntman who — in an era before digital effects — actually had to be set on fire for multiple takes.

“Music from Big Pink” featured Robertson's "The Weight." The follow-up album, "The Band," released in 1969 ... and became newsworthy enough to appear on the cover of Time magazine.