Highly recommend checking out the Levon Helm documentary from about 10 years ago: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCurMyP4n8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCurMyP4n8</a><p>Robertson's obituary alluded to questions over songwriting credits. That came up in Helm's 2012 documentary and autobiography - he thinks he and the other members of The Band were cheated. Robertson refuted that a few years back, and quite forcefully:<p><i>To this day, on The Band's songs, I share the publishing and songwriting credit with Levon. The other guys said they wanted to sell their part of the publishing. When we started out, everyone was supposed to write songs. [When they didn't] I thought they were being lazy. But some people can write songs, and some can't. Levon didn't write songs. I gave him credit on some songs because he was around. Garth was a great musician, but he couldn't write. Ringo Starr doesn't write songs. Charlie Watts doesn't write songs, and they don't share publishing credit with the other guys in their groups. After 16 years together, Levon never once mentioned songwriting. When it came up, I was generous about it.</i><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/23/robbie-robertson-the-band-once-were-brothers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.salon.com/2020/05/23/robbie-robertson-the-band-o...</a>