WOODSTOCK, N.Y. – Musician Levon Helm was laid to rest on a cemetery ... played a New Orleans-style tune as it marched from the gravesite back toward the cemetery entrance after the burial.

Levon Helm was laid to rest in Woodstock ... guitarist Jimmy Vivino and drummer Steve Jordan played a tune leading out from the gravesite. In the early years, the Band backed Bob Dylan on his ...

"There's no need to slave / The whip is in the grave." This was healing music ... buccaneer country that belongs to all of us. Levon Helm told those stories. He gave that history a voice that ...

Helm appeared frail in recent years, but there was no inkling his health had taken a grave turn until Tuesday, when his wife and daughter posted a statement on his website announcing, "Levon is in ...

In the last decade of his life, Levon Helm opened up his home in Woodstock ... Helm will be buried in the Woodstock Cemetery in the grave next to Rick Danko, the Band's bassist.

In 2010, Levon Helm released what would be his final studio ... It's not a trudge toward the grave. Instead, the song sounds almost joyful as it anticipates the end of pain and suffering, and ...

Levon Helm carried "The Weight" for The Band, and for the Woodstock generation. The musician died Thursday, two days after his family announced he was losing a fight to cancer. He was 71.

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Musician Levon Helm was laid to rest on a cemetery ... played a New Orleans-style tune as it marched from the gravesite back toward the cemetery entrance after the burial.