Helm got his first guitar when he was six, and by 17, played with Conway Twitty. He is best remembered for The Band. By Malcolm Jones.

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 performs Midnight Rambles with his new band at the Levon Helm Studio in Woodstock, N.Y. Arkansas-born Helm was the only non-Canadian member of the Hawks, a group that first backed early ...

Levon Helm, Founder and Drummer of The Band, Dies at 71. The country boy behind the group’s hits "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek" loses his long battle with throat cancer.

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 ...

Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York of throat cancer.He was 71. “He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and bandmates ...

The studio setup and the internal fraying of The Band led to a newly ad hoc record-making process, where only a couple of ...

Drummer and singer Levon Helm was a founding member of The Band. Helm and his group played as a backup band for Bob Dylan in the 1960s. Later the band became famous enough to simply be called The ...

The Band's original lineup split after the 1976 all-star show featured in The Last Waltz.With Helm's death, Robertson, who wrote the group's biggest hits, and keyboardist Garth Hudson are the only ...

Drummer and vocalist Levon Helm, who died yesterday at the age of 71, had battled throat cancer for over a decade, losing and regaining his voice at one point. When his family announced earlier ...

Amy Helm, the 45-year-old daughter of the Band’s late drummer and singer, Levon Helm, and singer Libby Titus, is playing a Saturday night concert — a benefit for the Grateful Dead’s Rex ...

Drummer-vocalist Levon Helm (1940-2012), who never liked the concept of The Last Waltz, liked the idea of Diamond performing with The Band even less. Helm couldn’t understand what, if anything ...