The Michael Berry Show.

Robby Robertson is our guest 44 years after the concert Thanksgiving day. November 25th, 1976 in

Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco and two years later, the last waltz airs. And here we

are 42 years later and sort of the on screen depiction of your autobiography Testimony comes out.

There's so much to tell about this band. What did you want to make sure that people take away from

the story of this band, the band? Well, one of the things that the director of this guy that I took

to shoot with, he was 24 years old, Daniel Roar, when I met him. And I said, I've got a feeling about this guy

and he ended up directing the film. And his gut instinct, and my gut instinct was taking what we could

from Testimony and searing in a lot on this brotherhood of this group, of this relationship, of the magic in the music,

that these particular guys made together. And when we talk about the name, the band, it was a real band.

Everybody in that group did something so in particular. And when we put those pieces together, as Eric Clapton says in the movie,

you know, he says, it changed my life. It made me look at music in a whole other way, in a whole new way.

And I thought, if we have something to offer, if we have something to contribute to the world of music in this originality,

and what we can bring forth, it had so much to do with all of those years that we spent playing the Chitlin circuit down south,

playing in Texas, playing in Mississippi, in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and everywhere around.

We did what we called woodshetting for many years, and putting all that musicality together. And it came out.

It came out sounding like something that we never did with Ronnie Hawkins. We never did as the Hawks.

We never did when we played with Bob Dylan. We turned a new page, and it had nothing to do with what was trendy or popular at the time at all.

It broke all the rules, and it ended up changing the course of rock and roll.

Robbie Robertson is our guest. One of my favorite moments in the film, once we're brothers is the film, by the way, it's wonderful.

Bruce Springsteen makes the statement in there that what makes this band special is that every person has a special role.

You know, Richard Manuel, when he's singing, I shall be released. I mean, when he hits that high note, your songwriting and singing, and leave on him,

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