The thing about the Robertson/Helm feud over songwriting credits is that they're both right

Robertson's position -- arranging is the band's job, it doesn't merit composition credit any more than producing does -- reflects the conventional practice. As he points out in his memoir, Dylan mostly wasn't telling the Nashville guys he recorded with what to play.

But Helm is also right that the conventional practice doesn't really make sense -- it's somewhat odd to credit music that isn't through-composed to one individual when it's developed collectively. (Al Kooper probably should get points from "Like A Rolling Stone"!)

I think the collective credits of REM or the individual lyric credit/group music credit used by the DBT reflect a better practice. But it's disingenuous to single out Robertson as History's Greatest Villain for doing what almost everyone else did.

For people who care about this stuff, this book is really outstanding. Basically, ALO arbitrarily decided all Stones original material should be credited to Jagger-Richards because it would be cool to emulate Lennon-McCartney, and it stuck although it didn't actually make sense

Indeed, I think Brian Jones and Mick Taylor have a lot more to complain about than Helm or post-discovery-of-smack Danko/Manuel. The latter hurt himself (and the world of popular music) by bitching about it but he wasn't wrong about getting screwed on "Sway," "Time Waits," etc.

Sorry, forgot link to the book, which is excellent! (Robertson's memoir is also VERY good if you can forgive some name-dropping, but more on that when I'm done.) https://www.amazon.com/Brian-Jones-Making-Rolling-Stones-ebook/dp/B00INIXKXU

On the broader feud issues, my basic take is that both Levon and Robbie are/were decent guys who fell out hard because they were in very different life positions in 1976 and I don't have a side