The follow-up to Robbie Robertson's 2016 memoir, Testimony, will be published on November 11th.

Titled Insomnia, it picks up where Testimony left off, in 1976 and The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, which was filmed by director Martin Scorsese.

Insomnia spans a shorter length of time than Testimony, focusing mainly on the couple of years Robbie and Marty were housemates following their marriages falling apart.

Part of the book's description reads as follows:

"As their friendship deepened into a career-altering collaboration, their shared journey would take them around the world and down the rabbit hole of American culture in the long hangover of the seventies. Buffeted on either side by temptation and paranoia, veering closer to self-destruction than either wanted to admit, together they had devoted themselves to a partnership defined by equal parts admiration and ambition.

"With a cast of characters featuring Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Federico Fellini, Sophia Loren, Liza Minelli, and many more, Insomnia is an intimate portrait of a remarkable creative friendship between two titans of American arts, one that would explore the outer limits of excess and experience before returning to tell the tale."

Following The Last Waltz, Robertson would provide the music to 11 more Scorsese films with the last one being 2023's Killers of the Flower Moon.

Robbie Robertson on working with director Martin Scorsese.

"Working with Marty is just -- it's the best. I mean he often says to me, 'As long as it doesn't sound like movie music.' So that eliminates a lot."

Robertson died from prostate cancer on August 9th, 2023. He was 80.

And, as previously reported, if you are a fan of The Band, then you may be interested in the first official biography of their late keyboardist and singer Richard Manuel, which will be published on June 17th.

Bret Saunders