{"id":490853,"date":"2019-10-03T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=894395"},"modified":"2019-10-03T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:45:37","slug":"see-robbie-robertson-perform-let-love-reign-with-the-roots-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-robbie-robertson-perform-let-love-reign-with-the-roots-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"See Robbie Robertson Perform \u2018Let Love Reign\u2019 with the Roots on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/RobbieRobertson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robbie-robertson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robbie-robertson\" data-tag=\"robbie-robertson\">Robbie Robertson<\/a> staged his first late-night performance in eight years Wednesday with a rendition of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/robbie-robertson-let-love-reign-song-872034\/\">Let Love Reign<\/a>,\u201d the John Lennon-inspired song from the former Band leader\u2019s new album <em>Sinematic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> house band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-roots\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-roots\" data-tag=\"the-roots\">the Roots<\/a> backed the guitarist for a brassy take on the track.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Robertson previously said of \u201cLet Love Reign\u201d: \u201cSome people think John Lennon\u2019s dream about love and togetherness went up in flames. I think that\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s everlasting. There was something a little naive about John Lennon going around singing about peace, but in that period young people celebrating love and peace helped end a war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to <em>Sinematic<\/em>, Robertson also contributed music to Martin Scorsese\u2019s upcoming epic <em>The Irishman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was working on music for <em>The Irishman<\/em> and working on [The Band] documentary, and these things were bleeding into each other,\u201d Robertson said of <em>Sinematic<\/em> in a statement. \u201cI could see a path. Ideas for songs about haunting and violent and beautiful things were swirling together like a movie. You follow that sound and it all starts to take shape right in front of your ears. At some point, I started referring to it as \u2018Peckinpah Rock,&#8217;\u201d a nod to the legendary Westerns director.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-robbie-robertson-perform-let-love-reign-with-the-roots-on-fallon-894395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Robertson staged his first late-night performance in eight years Wednesday with a rendition of \u201cLet Love Reign,\u201d the John Lennon-inspired song from the former Band leader\u2019s new album Sinematic. The Tonight Show house band the Roots backed the guitarist for a brassy take on the track. In a statement, Robertson previously said of \u201cLet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 19:44:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}