Levon Helm was on "doctor ordered vocal rest," so he neither sang nor spoke a word. That didn't keep him from his drum kit or a turn at the mandolin while leading his massive 12-piece band. As ...

Jaime Robbie Robertson, Rick Manuel, Rick Danko, Levon Helm and now Garth Hudson: all gone. Quoting one of the Band’s songs: “When you awake, you will remember everything.” I sure will.

In this month's issue of Uncut, we celebrate The Band's 30 greatest songs. As a special bonus, here's another 10 songs we didn't have room for in the magazine, as chosen by Richard Thompson, Jim ...

Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm tell the story beautifully as if it were a poetic history lesson. 3. ... “Children Of The Grave” is very much an anti-war song that occasionally gets overlooked ...

Levon Helm and the Levon Helm band perform during the Heros of Woodstock concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., in this Aug. 15, 2009 file photo.

Levon Helm’s grave at Woodstock Cemetery. While getting to visit some of those tucked-away places might be interesting, it’s a logistical challenge this tour does not attempt to tackle. For this you ...

Through Levon Helm’s iconic southern twang, Robertson is able to convey the futility of the civil war and how ordinary people were the biggest victims. Even those who end up on the wrong side of ...

John Barry was working as a music writer for the Poughkeepsie Journal in October of 2004 when he first met Levon Helm, legendary drummer and vocalist for The Band. Barry received a call from ...

Maybe Helm didn’t actually mind Baez’s version at all. All we know is that Helm had his own reasons for not performing ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ after The Last Waltz and took them to his ...

The 71-year-old Levon Helm died of throat cancer in 2012. A year before his passing, Helm got together with Mavis Staples to record one final session in his Woodstock studio.

The map also shows the grave locations of Rick Danko and Levon Helm, former members of The Band. They were included “because they were afraid people would be stomping all over the place looking for ...