Like the album it hailed from, Music From Big Pink, “The Weight” came as a breath of fresh air amid the tumult and tear gas of the summer of ’68. The song’s relaxed yet mildly funky ...

I would say, in probably 45 minutes, I had written the skeleton of the whole song The Weight, the rootsy fifth track on Music From Big Pink, is one of The Band’s most enduring and oft-played ...

One of the Band’s most enigmatic yet best-known songs is “The Weight.” It’s in the Top 50 of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”; in the Top 15 of Pitchfork’s “Best ...

at least one song that put Chris Christie to sleep, and now, a performance of "The Weight" (to mark the passing of The Band's Levon Helm) that seems destined to command the kind of cultural ...