Once Were Brothers is a detailed look of The Band through Robbie Robertson's eyes, from his beginnings in Canada playing with rockabilly band Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks to the formation The Band. The film has interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Martin Scorsese, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, David Geffen and a host of other record producers.
Robbie was one of the main songwriting contributors in The Band writing 4 of the 11 songs on "Music from Big Pink". The Band's second album, 1969's "The Band," Robertson is credited as the sole author of eight of the 12 songs, shares credit with Manuel on three others and with Levon Helm on "Jemima Surrender." Robertson is credited with writing all 10 songs for The Band's 1970 third album "Stage Fright" as his fellow musicians descended into alcoholism and drug abuse.
In addition to 6 solo albums since The Band's breakup, Robbie Robertson has worked on Martin Scorsese's movies Casino, The Departed, and Gangs of New York, and he provided music supervision for Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence. Robertson provided the score for the 2019 Martin Scorsese movie, The Irishman and consulted with the music supervisor Randall Poster on the entire soundtrack.
I stream a lot of movies and get used to the adequate compressed sound quality. I watched "Once Were Brothers" on Blu-ray. The DTS-HD Master Audio is fantastic with clear, tight, dynamic and powerful musical soundtrack. The songs sounded better than my original vinyl albums.
