Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band.

And then Richard Manuel committed suicide, a fatal blow.

Elvis Costello on The Band

I was wondering really where you got your odd singing style from? It's very nasal and it has a lot of American inflections.
That comes from the time when most of the music I liked was either R&B or white acts influenced by R&B, like Van Morrison. But my favourite singer other than the obvious ones was Rick Danko of The Band. He was my absolute hero. I always suspected white singers that sounded like they were trying too hard to sound like soul singers. I was never that struck on Joe Cocker or the Paul Rodgers type of I'm-a-soul-singer voice. But Rick Danko had a kind of unique style. It was kind of nasal and it had a little bit of what I now realise is Country in it, but at the time it was just so unusual to me, such a lovely relaxed falsetto. At one time, when I was about 18, The Band were it for me. I though they were the best. I liked them because they had beards. They didn't look pretty. It appealed to me that they looked really ugly. And they weren't boys. They were men, and all their songs seemed to be about olden days but they weren't dressing up as cowboys or anything. It wasn't phoney.

https://www.elviscostello.info/articles/d-g/fa8308a.html

Irony 1:  All the members of The Band other than Levon were Canadian

Irony 2: The Band had 3 fabulous lead singers.  Levon was a force of nature, and probably the one most would pick.  Levon's favorite singer (and drummer - "he played rhythm on the piano and melody on the drums") was Richard Manuel.

Irony 3: Many seem to have bought the "Brown Album is all Robbie" story - he is credited with writing or co-writing every song and even scored a engineer credit).  What about Garth?  He played 9 instruments on the album, and it's well known that "Honey Boy" was the most involved Band member on the recording/production side.

Irony 4: Robbie was a great talent, and did write some fine songs even after leaving The Band.  He never did reach that level again, though.  The one thing he did learn (and thoroughly exploit) was that the $$$ were in the songwriting credit.  Maybe he wrote all the words.  Maybe he even composed all the music.  There's no way that he wrote all the arrangements, though (Garth - play these measures in your written score on slide trumpet, OK?).  He knew what he was doing to his bandmates.

Irony 5:  He left because he wanted to be more than 1/5 of The Band.  Instead, he walked out on far and away the most important part of his legacy.

Testimony is a worthy read with a respectful but wary eye…..

Enjoy the music

As an aside, but quite related…give Amy Helm a listen… she could read a tractor repair manual and i would crawl to the barn to witness….