The Band’s Robbie Robertson Fixes Music ‘Mistakes,’ Tells Kids What’s Good (Exclusive Video)

In a time of “disposable music,” rock icon Robertson revisits a 40-year-old album he never liked, and writes a children’s book about musical legends

We live in a time of disposable music when kids aren’t taught the difference between what’s good and what’s bad, singer-songwriter and rock ‘n’ roll legend Robbie Robertson told TheWrap – but, he added, we also live in a time when some of the mistakes of the past can be corrected, when technology and the market will allow for musicians to go back and get it right.

Robertson, the guitarist and principal songwriter in the iconic group the Band, is trying to take advantage of that second factor with the Band’s new box set “Live at the Academy of Music 1971.”

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