Robbie Robertson ‎– Robbie Robertson -1987- Classic Rock ( vinyl ) Mint Copy

Robbie Robertson ‎– Robbie Robertson -1987- Classic Rock ( vinyl ) Mint Copy

stock photo only

Label & Ser # ~ Geffen Records ‎– GHS 24160

Format 1 -disc, 9 tracks, Black Vinyl, 12-inch , 33rpm, LP.
Year of release ~ 1987 
Country Manufactured ~Canada
Rock

Sleeve Condition (Out of 10) ~ 10 / with inner sleeve
Label Condition (Out of 10) ~ 10
Vinyl Condition ~ (Out of 10)
Side 1 -10
side 2 - 10
in awesome shape

Bin #R71

Robertson was born Jaime Royal Robertson.^[1] His mother, Rosemarie Myke Chrysler, was Mohawk, born and raised on the Six Nations Reservation.^[6][7][8] His father was a Jewish^[9] professional gambler.^[1]Robertson has said that both traditions have influenced his religious outlook.^[9] His father died in a hit-and-run accident when Robbie was a young child,^[10] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.^[11] and his mother later married James Patrick Robertson, who adopted Robbie and whose surname Robbie took.^[10] He had his earliest exposure to music at Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, where he spent summers with his mother's family.

By 1958, Robertson was performing in various groups around Toronto, including Little Caesar and the Consuls, Robbie and the Robots, and Thumper and the Trambones. By 1959 he had met singer Ronnie Hawkins, who led a band called the Hawks. In 1960 Hawkins recorded two early Robertson songs, "Hey Boba Lu" and "Someone Like You" on his Mr. Dynamo LP. Robertson then took over lead guitar with the Hawks and toured often, before splitting from Hawkins in 1963. Robertson's skill on his instrument continued to increase, leading Howard Sounes to write, "By twenty-two, he was a guitar virtuoso."^[12]

After Robertson left Hawkins, along with Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, and Garth Hudson, the quintet named themselves Levon and the Hawks,^[13] but, after rejecting such tongue-in-cheek names as the Honkies and the Crackers, as well as the Canadian Squires—a name the record label gave them, which they immediately hated—they ultimately called themselves the Band.