Levon Helm's new CD sounds like a time capsule. Close your eyes while listening to his first solo studio album in 25 years and try to convince yourself it's not the work of a 1930s-era singer.

The Levon Helm Band has released 'the Midnight Ramble Sessions: Vol. 3' ... The latest CD from Helm, who died April 19, 2012, is released today and with one strum of a mandolin, ...

With his 2007 album “Dirt Farmer,” Levon Helm, the former singer-drummer of the Band, followed many of his contemporaries down the road of acoustic music. It was understandable: Helm was at the age – ...

WOODSTOCK — In Levon Helm's world, musicians help one another. So when the voice that first sang classic American songs about taking "a load off Fanny" and driving "old Dixie down" with the Band ...

On this new CD he’s bringing that slightly roughened, but still unmistakable, ... Levon Helm: Electric Dirt. July 1, 2009 5:37 pm. Follow American Songwriter for more breaking news.

If there's one thing a good drummer knows it's the power of a groove, and Helm, one of rock's greatest with the sticks, has them in spades on "Electric Dirt," his second album since recovering ...

ANTI- Records has announced a collaborative album between Mavis Staples and the late Levon Helm titled Carry Me Home, out May 20th. The first single is their take on the gospel and blues standard ...

Artist: Levon Helm. CD: Electric Dirt. Genre: Folk-Rock. When Levon Helm was a young man singing with The Band, just about every critic used two adjectives to describe his voice: "lyrical" and ...

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'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.

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- Nestled in the woods off a dirt road in this bucolic upstate town, “The Barn” is one in name only. Built by The Band’s Levon Helm after the original was destroyed by fire ...