found: Dylan, B. The basement tapes [SR] p1975:label (Bob Dylan & The Band) container (The Band: Robbie Robertson, guitars, drums, vocals; Richard Manuel, piano, drums, harmonica, vocals; Rick Danko, electric bass, mandolin, vocals; Garth Hudson, organ, accordion, piano, etc.; Levon Helm, drums, mandolin, electric bass, vocals)
found: The Canadian encyclopedia WWW site, Apr. 21, 2006:Enc. of mus. in Canada (the Band; rock group, first known as the Hawks, evolved from an American group taken to Ontario in 1958 by Ronnie Hawkins; the original members, except Levon Helm, were gradually replaced by Canadian musicians; leaving Hawkins, the group recorded as Levon and the Hawks or the Canadian Squires, and became Bob Dylan's back-up band, the Crackers [no publs. in OCLC], in 1965; they debuted as the Band in 1969)
