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Ain’t In It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm — Film Review. Jacob Hatley's documentary is a captivating look at a musician hanging onto his art for dear life, even when he's too weary to ...
Levon Helm, drummer and vocalist for legendary roots-rock outfit The Band, died Thursday at age 71. Times-Picayune art critic Doug MacCash wrote this story, published in the July 30, 2005, ...
Purity of spirit is one of the greatest ingredients of creative genius. And that's exactly what is captured in the new documentary about Levon Helm, the singer, songwriter and drummer from The Band.
Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm opens Friday at Chelsea (see times below) Our rating: Hatley, Vickers, producer Stephen Brower and musician Laurelyn Dossett will appear at the ...
Of Levon Helm Studios, where Dorsey has performed more than once, she said, “It’s such a great thing to have in our community -- The Barn and just the legacy of that.” ...
FAYETTEVILLE -- A bronze bust of musician Levon Helm was unveiled Friday. "As an Arkansawyer, as an artist and as a music lover, this is a real dream," said Kevin Kresse, the artist, just before ...
NOTE: For this live blog from tonight's Love for Levon tribute concert at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, I'll keep a running set list at the top of this post (refresh page to get the latest ...
Helm lives in Woodstock, N.Y., not far from the famed Big Pink, the house where in the late 1960s “Levon and the Hawks” morphed into The Band, before setting off in 1968 to record their debut ...
Ain’t in It for My Health, a new documentary about the Band’s late drummer and singer Levon Helm, will premiere in New York open on April 19th, exactly one year after his passing, and open in ...
The Band’s Levon Helm, a drummer who also sang many of the group’s most celebrated and gorgeous songs, died today at 71 from throat cancer. “He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon ...
Parquet Courts' Andrew Savage told an interviewer a while back that once upon a time he planned to major in music at North Texas State University, which has a renowned music program. But Savage ...
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 ...