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    Levon Helm of The Band Dies

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    • SusyLuvsPaul
      SusyLuvsPaul last edited by

      Now Levon Helm of the highly touted and indeed pretty wonderful sixties and seventies The Band has died of cancer, after his family revealed just yesterday he was in the last stages of his cancer battle. (And just while ago I read Jonathon Frid, the t.v. Barnabus Collins vampire has died at age 87.) I always wondered why The Band, all-Canadian except for American southerner Helm, I think, wrote about 1800s American history in their songs instead of their own country's heritage and culture. We have lost a true musical gem in Levon Helm.

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      • oobu24
        oobu24 last edited by

        RIP here he is singing...The Night They Drove ol Dixie Down

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        • SusyLuvsPaul
          SusyLuvsPaul last edited by

          Excellent...also love "Up on Cripple Creek" and "Stage Fright" among others. He sure looked good right up to the last. He had kept right on giving impromptu mini-concerts at his barn in Woodstock, N.Y., I read, which were well-attended and appreciated.

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          • oobu24
            oobu24 last edited by

            Cripple Creek

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            • AbbeyRoadCrosser
              AbbeyRoadCrosser last edited by

              Very sad news. Heard about his declining health on Tuesday and that night Elvis dedicated a very touching gospel song to him. We have lost another great musician.

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              • Andy_Shofar
                Andy_Shofar last edited by

                Levon Helm, drummer and singer of the Band, dead at 71 April 19, 2012, 3:27 PM EST By David Browne Rollingstone.com Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died Thursday in New York of throat cancer. He was 71. "He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and bandmates," Helm's longtime guitarist Larry Campbell tells Rolling Stone. http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=722294

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                • Thisbe211
                  Thisbe211 last edited by

                  And remember he was in Ringo's first (and best) All-Starrs Band!

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                  • Andy_Shofar
                    Andy_Shofar last edited by

                    Levon Helm Ramble At The Ryman "Ophelia" on PBS

                    Anna Lee - Levon Helm 2011 Ramble at the Ryman Live HD
                    Levon Helm The Weight with Chris and Rich Robinson and Adam McDougal, Kettering, OH July 15, 2009

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                    • SusyLuvsPaul
                      SusyLuvsPaul last edited by

                      Hay it must be really difficult to sing like that and play drums at the same time and do both with such soulful spirit and spunk (unless you really got the goods)--Bob Dylan has written a poignant piece in celebration of Levon's life and their collaboration. Will try to find the link.

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                        admin last edited by

                        In his inimitably charming way, he narrated one of the best Elvis documentaries ever: Elvis: 1956.

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