The Weight is an all-time classic from the American songbook that saw The Band transition from Bob Dylan's backing band to a new era with the 1967's The Basement Tapes and 1968 debut Music From The Big Pink.
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But anyone who pays attention to the song's opening line will know it namechecks 'Nazareth' and there's a very good reason for that – Robbie Robertson's Martin D-28 guitar, as he explains in the video above.
The clip is taken from the forthcoming documentary, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band, in select cinemas on 21 February.
The documentary is based on Robertson’s 2016 memoir Testimony and follows The Band’s history to their 1976 Martin Scorsese-directed farewell show The Last Waltz.
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