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, a key member of the seminal rock group The Band who lent his distinctively Southern voice to classics like "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," has died at age 71.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Drummer Levon Helm, a longtime member of The Band, is in the final stages of cancer, his family said on Tuesday. Helm, 71, who also toured with Ringo Starr's All Star band ...

Levon Helm’s best performance in The Last Waltz. Filmed from just behind his head so you can see his breath blowing past the microphone, “Ophelia” is a surprisingly upbeat song about loss.

Williams: It walked right in the door. Campbell: Yeah, because Levon is "Tennessee Jed." That was a song that the Levon of the Band days, it probably never would have even been on their radar.

Levon Helm at the 2010 Jazz Fest, by Aaron Lafont In December 1998, OffBeat ‘s Scott Jordan interviewed Helm on the eve of the opening of Levon Helm’s Classic American Cafe on Decatur Street. In it, ...

Levon Helm: The 2007 Fresh Air Interview Levon Helm, the longtime drummer of The Band who backed Bob Dylan and sang with Van Morrison, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 71.

Helm's voice is familiar to fans of late 1960s and early '70s rock. He sang the lead vocal on Band classics that included "The Weight," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Up on Cripple Creek." ...

Levon Helm 's 'Ramble At The Ryman' has won Best Americana Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The former the Band singer and drummer had won the same prize for the Grammy's inaugural ...

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 ...

The son of an Arkansas cotton farmer, Helm was just out of high school when he joined rocker Ronnie Hawkins for a tour of Canada in 1957 as the drummer for the Hawks. That band eventually ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- 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 family says ...