Levon Helm, member of The Band, is in the final stages of his battle with cancer..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levon_Helm
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Levon Helm, member of The Band, is in the final stages of his battle with cancer..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levon_Helm
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It doen't and it won't ever get better then the Band .
RIP Levon, you'll truly be missed.
Thanks, Levon, for the songs, the sound, and the truth of your music. You will be missed.
Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dies at 71
By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/19/nationa...
(04-19) 14:08 PDT 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 authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story.
In truth, the group had only one American — Levon Helm.
Helm, the drummer and singer who brought an urgent beat and a genuine Arkansas twang to some of The Band's best-known songs and helped turn a bunch of musicians known mostly as Bob Dylan's backup group into one of rock's most legendary acts, has died. He was 71.
RIP Levon.
I was just listening to Cripple creek, this new makes me sad.