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Apr 19, 2012 · Thu 19 Apr 2012 15.39 EDT. A shorthand way of describing Levon Helm, who has died of cancer aged 71, would be as the drummer with the Band, who were Bob Dylan's backing group as he made the...
Apr 20, 2012 · Levon Helm, who helped to forge a deep-rooted American music as the drummer and singer for the Band, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 71 and lived in Woodstock, N.Y. His death, at Memorial...
Levon Helm. Actor: Shooter. Levon Helm was in the right place at the right time. He saw the birth of rock and roll and, though he was too much of a gentleman to say it, his role in helping to keep that rebellious child healthy was more than just instrumental.
Levon Helm, who was born in 1940 in the Arkansas Delta, grew up in the hamlet of Turkey Scratch surrounded by music made by his parents, heard on the radio, and experienced in person: Seminal bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson, whose King Biscuit Time radio show blasted out of nearby Helena’s KFFA; Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, featuring ...
Apr 19, 2012 · Jan Persson/Redferns. Levon Helm, a member of influential rock group The Band, died in New York City on Thursday. The drummer, singer and actor, who backed Bob Dylan as he turned away from...
Apr 19, 2012 · Levon Helm, right, playing before 42,000 fans at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium in 1974. By GREG QUILL ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST. Canadians had a special place in their hearts for Arkansas musician...
Apr 19, 2012 · April 19, 2012 12:34pm. Vanguard Records. Levon Helm, whose Arkansas country voice and tightknit work on a spare drum kit helped transform one of music’s most renowned backing groups into The...
