Rick Danko
8Roles★ 6.8Average rating
Emerging from a farming community in Ontario, he grew up immersed in country, blues and R&B, first performing on tenor banjo and guitar before being thrust onto bass after joining Ronnie Hawkins’s Hawks in 1960. Rapidly mastering the instrument, he backed Hawkins, then Lenny Breau, and later became a core member of the group that would evolve into the Band, contributing to Bob Dylan’s seminal mid-…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
