The Last Waltz tote bag Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley)

Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley)

David Remnick writes about some of the most influential musicians

The makes available again the complete out-of-print text of Song & Dance Man III

award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly

By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly prescient

The Last Waltz tote bag Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley)More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group the Band at San Franciscos Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (led by director of photography Michael Chapman, and also including