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ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND

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7/10

Fresh new perspectives on a tightly knit Band. By Jason Anderson

As befits the title of Daniel Roher’s reverential doc about The Band, is filled with talk of the fraternal relationships between the four Canadians and one American from their earliest days in the rock clubs of Toronto onwards. The bond they shared, we hear again and again, was a beautiful thing, even an enviable one to Eric Clapton, who admits he longed to join that brotherhood. And it stayed

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