Like the lineup of the Cripple Creek Caravan, the song list changes each year. The beauty of a group like The Band is that its catalog is so deep there’s always a new song to learn.

I thought, “Wow, he’s really astute!” ‘Cause The Band had put out a song called “Cripple Creek” that I mistook for the song by Flatt and Scruggs that he was asking about. Like most of ...