Showing a surprisingly and rarely seen humble aspect of his outsized persona, Noel expressed some fear about hitting the road without his longtime band.

Mr. Costello's longtime band, the Attractions, played like co-conspirators, batting around ideas and slyly illustrating lyrics.

His longtime band was called The Playboys.

Out, too, with her old manager, with Bittan, with what remains of her longtime band.

She and her longtime band still deliver one of the sweatiest, most earnestly insurgent shows a club will ever see.

McGraw's longtime band, the Dancehall Doctors, have been making music with him since the '90s.

These are the Drifting Cowboys, Williams's longtime band, and they're wonderfully lively, skillful and well rehearsed.

Ms. Raitt repeatedly praised the members of her longtime band, two of whom contributed songs to "Souls Alike."

It had been his longtime band, made up of good friends, and he had lost both.