"We lost Levon at 1:30 today surrounded by friends and family and his musicians have visited him," Larry Campbell, Helm's guitarist and band leader, told the newspaper. "As sad as this was, it was ...

Levon Helm carried "The Weight" for The Band, and for the Woodstock generation.. The musician died Thursday, two days after his family announced he was losing a fight to cancer. He was 71.

Levon Helm, a member of influential rock group The Band, died in New York City on Thursday. The drummer, singer and actor, who backed Bob Dylan as he turned away from folk toward a more ...

Levon Helm, singer and drummer of The Band, is in "the final stages" of cancer, according to a statement from his family. Helm, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in the 1990s, damaged his vocal ...

Levon Helm of The Band in Woodstock, New York, 1968. Tribute to Levon Helm — Helm performs as part of the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, in 2009.

"Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon," Helm's manager Barbara O'Brien said in a statement. "He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as ...

Yesterday the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival announced Levon Helm this year's Jazz Fest. Today, Helm's family has Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your ...

Click to listen to Levon Helm’s ‘Same Thing’ Set for release on November 20th, the third installment of the Levon Helm Band’s Midnight Ramble Sessions was one of the beloved bandleader’s ...

Levon Helm, who died in New York ... Levon Helm, The Band’s Drummer, Dies at Age 71. ... Mark Lavon “Levon” Helm was born to a family of farmers in Arkansas in 1940 and started playing with ...

Levon Helm, the founding drummer of the Band who became a creative force in roots music and cherished Americana icon as a solo performer, died today at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ...

Levon Helm, the drummer, multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Band who kept the band’s heart for more than three decades, died “peacefully” Thursday afternoon, according to his record ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) — Levon Helm, a former member of The Band, is in the final stages of his long battle with cancer. A message posted Tuesday on the 71-year-old musician's website by his ...