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Apr 15, 2013 · One night in August 2008, Levon Helm sat in his kitchen in Woodstock, New York after playing a Midnight Ramble gig in his barn, smoking some “northern Californian organic” and sharing stories ...
Apr 18, 2012 · UPDATED April 19: Levon Helm passed away today (April 19) from throat cancer, Rolling Stone reports. "He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and bandmates," Larry Campbell, a longtime guitarist with Helm, told Rolling Stone. "All his friends were there, and it seemed like Levon was waiting for them.
Apr 20, 2012 · Levon Helm died yesterday, April 19th, of throat cancer at age 71. He was diagnosed in 1998, the year he turned 58, and during that time had 28 radiation treatments that helped give him over a decade more to live. Before his diagnosis he was reportedly a heavy smoker, a many as three packs a day. It’s wonderful that modern medicine gave them ...
Apr 16, 2013 · A plain but powerful piece of documentary filmmaking, Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm gives a solid account of the late drummer Levon Helm — formerly of The Band — as he ...
Oct 11, 2007 · October 11, 2007 / 2:20 PM EDT / CBS. At 67, Levon Helm will release a new album this month. "We live in an age of miracles," he writes in the liner notes. The record itself is a miracle, because ...
In 1975 Robbie Robertson, The Band ’s principal songwriter, came to him and suggested it was time to quit, because it was “taking a toll on our health, and on the collective health of The Band.”. Helm’s existential reply was, “I’m a musician; I’m not in it for my health.”. Then he expounds, “If I wanted to live a healthy life ...
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Apr 24, 2012 · Published on April 23, 2012 10:13PM EDT. Photo: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns. In the early fall of 2007, I traveled to Woodstock, N.Y., to interview Levon Helm, the legendary Band drummer and ...
