Like many younger fans of Levon Helm, my first real exposure to his music was from the film The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese’s documentary about The Band’s farewell concert, which took place in San ...

Helm played superpowered, shifting backbeats, helped Bob Dylan go electric and sang some of The Band's biggest hits, including "The Weight" and... Levon Helm, Drummer And Singer In The Band, Dies ...

April 18 (Reuters) - Levon Helm, drummer and singer of root rock group The Band, left behind more than a lifetime of music when he died of cancer a year ago. Sign up here. The four-time Grammy winner ...

Helm wasn't exactly the leader, although it's his voice on "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the famous Civil War narrative that appears on 1969's The Band. And while the others pitch in on Big ...

Not every musician gets to tour with the real life versions of their prized record collection, but there are few people with a highlight reel like Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams have amassed. All ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With songs like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek,” The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that seemed as ...

Levon Helm, who died in New York on April 19, age 71, from the cancer that he had been fighting for more than a decade, was one of the most celebrated rock drummers of the last 50 years. He uniquely ...

Recently, Voice Media Group held a competition to help determine the best music writing in the pages and on the blogs of its 14 papers. This winning piece by Jesse Sykes first appeared in Seattle ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Levon Helm, The Band's commanding drummer and singer, whose solid beat and Arkansas twang helped define classics from the tragic "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" to the playful "Up ...

Levon Helm, the drummer and gritty-voiced singer with The Band, a revered rock group that recorded and collaborated with Bob Dylan and was one of the most influential music acts of the 1960s and '70s, ...