Ronnie Hawkins, rockabilly legend and mentor of The Band, dead at 87
Bob Dylan on The Basement Tapes. Hawkins own success came a little earlier. His cover of Chuck Berry's 30 Days (entitled Forty Days) was a Top 10 Canadian hit in 1959, and other hits followed over the next decade, including versions of songs by Bo Diddley, Gordon Lightfoot, and The Clovers.