On a Friday night in March, it was hard to tell where to look: at the flickering movie screen, where The Band was wrapping up a 16-year career with a farewell concert, or at a still Robbie Robertson, who was sitting in the audience at the Paramount Theater in Austin and watching his younger self turn a five-piece band into a one-man show. The scene was surreal--watching a 58-year-old man stare at himself in a funhouse mirror that rendered him 26 years younger, prettier, maybe even happier. He made no noise and no gesture, while around him the crowd--the one on screen and the one surrounding him, maybe even staring at him--cheered the venerable echoes of men making music because they...
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