Levon Helm of The Band Dies
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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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RIP
here he is singing...The Night They Drove ol Dixie Down 
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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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Cripple Creek
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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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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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And remember he was in Ringo's first (and best) All-Starrs Band!
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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 -
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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In his inimitably charming way, he narrated one of the best Elvis documentaries ever: Elvis: 1956.
