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.

“Want to visit Levon Helm’s grave?” the manager of a local candle store asked me, quite out of the blue. Levon was the drummer and one of the main vocalists of the Band. “Go up the ...

And the organ, at various points, really seems to me to be in this ethereal area, as if supporting the idea of somebody speaking from beyond the grave ... and Levon Helm (the narrator) and ...

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.

(Note: driving while impaired was more common in Woodstock at the time than texting-while-driving is today.) Levon Helm’s grave at Woodstock Cemetery. While getting to visit some of those tucked-away ...

Through Levon Helm’s iconic southern twang ... Geezer Butler was a sick bastard to write a song as brutal as ‘Children of the Grave’. Lifting up the veil, Butler reveals one of the most tragic truths ...

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 Barba ...

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 ...