Credit: Photo By John Carrico

Rick Danko, Steamboat, late Eighties

There was life after The Band for Rick Danko, shown here when he played Steamboat, but the fragile, fluttering-voiced tenor’s recent death seemed to mark the end of an era.

This article appears in January 28 • 2000.

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