It's so fitting that Garth Hudson was the last man standing from the Band. The beloved organ virtuoso died on Tuesday morning at 87, near Woodstock - just a few miles down the road from Big Pink, the house where the Band and Bob Dylan transformed music history just by jamming in the basement.

The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on “Chest Fever,” gave the group a “sound twice as big” and his mates music lessons.

Check out four great songs by Rock & Roll Hall of Famers featuring The Band’s Garth Hudson in honor of his passing.

Hudson’s keyboard was an essential element of the Band's sound on roots-rock classics such as 'The Weight' and 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.'

Organist Eric “Garth” Hudson of rock group The Band, died on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at age 87. He was the last surviving member of the original 1960s and ‘70s group. Hudson was also the only member of The Band to never sing on stage.

The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras.

Robbie Robertson, the Band’s guitarist and songwriter in the group’s years of stardom (who himself passed away in August of 2023 ), offered a far more effusive assessment of what Hudson brought to the table in his 2016 memoir “Testimony”

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band, died January 21 in his sleep in Woodstock, NY. He was 87.

Because not only did the world lose a talented performer in the 87-year-old, it lost the last living found member of a legendary group — The Band. Hudson was preceded in death by founding member Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm.

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Ed Askew, a cult folk music singer/songwriter and painter, died on Jan. 4. He was 84. PEOPLE Magazine reported that Askew had been battling “ongoing health struggles” and had been in hospice. “Ed was a brave gay songwriter from the beginning,