Here’s a little thing I often think about: On “The Weight...

Here’s a little thing I often think about: On “The Weight” Garth Hudson is on piano, and as each chorus approaches he plays a little country-blues-gospel fill. Then he plays another fill after each line of the chorus. The chorus has three lines, and there are five choruses in the song, which means that he plays twenty of those fills — and no two of them are the same. It’s like a condensed encyclopedia of piano riffs.