On Oct. 3, more than twenty musicians will gather at the Izod Center tribute to Band drummer Levon Helm, who died in April. Garth Hudson, Roger Waters, Lucinda Williams, Eric Church, Joe Walsh ...

Levon Helm's Arkansas-hewn voice and imaginative drumming helped make the Band — first known as Bob Dylan's backup band — into one of the most esteemed groups in pop music history.

This story is from the April 27th, 2000 issue of Rolling Stone. A little more than thirty years ago, Levon Helm, a back-country Arkansas boy in love with the blues, moved to Woodstock, New York ...

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 folk toward a more ...

Levon Helm, the drummer, multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Band who kept the band’s heart for more than three decades, died “peacefully” Thursday afternoon, according to his record ...

Genial, intractable, unvarnished, in control: these were all equally true of Willie Nelson and Levon Helm on Wednesday night at Radio City Music Hall. Each led his working band, engaging a cross ...

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.

Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to the documentary “Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm,” directed by Jacob Hatley. The company plans a 2013 ...

For her 1996 book Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man, author Sandra Tooze interviewed Levon Helm, the singer-drummer with the iconic Canadian-American roots-rock group The Band. He was generous with her ...

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Levon Helm, the drummer, multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Band who kept the band’s heart for more than three decades, died “peacefully” Thursday afternoon, according to his record ...