You could have had 12 or 14 people in the band, four or five horn players, Levon Helm at the drums. You were just watching, and you felt like you were riding a freight train.

The story of Levon Helm — singer, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and drawling patriarch of the musical genre we now call Americana — has been told before. Helm told it himself in “This Wheel ...

In the summer of 2011, Mavis Staples and her band arrived at Levon Helm ‘s barn and studio in Woodstock, New York, to perform at one of Helm’s trademark Midnight Ramble shows.

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The late Levon Helm (1940-2012) was a Grammy Award-winning musician, most famously the drummer and lead vocalist for the Band. Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998, and despite the ...

Drummers don't usually do much singing the way Levon did. Who else has been known to sing lead and play drums? For Question of the Day, share your favorites and I'll spin a set after 9 a.m. Songs ...

The original version of the song, of course, features Helm playing the drums and singing the lead vocals. And no matter the venue or the performer, "The Weight" is still exhilarating.

Levon Helm, Woodstock resident and drummer, the former leader of The Band, has died at age 71. Helm died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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

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

Levon Helm: Joe Henry remembers ‘a deacon who spoke our gospel’ April 20, 2012 7:30 AM PT ...

Levon Helm, best-known as the drummer of the legendary 1960s/70s rock band known simply as The Band, got by with a little help from his friends Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz Fest presented by Shell.