Levon Helm was the southern heart of that essentially ... Helm it was who showed Robertson the ropes in his home state of Arkansas; Helm whose good-ole-boy yelp of a voice led Band c ...

In addition to both being prolific and inspiring musicians, Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm shared a much seedier past involving criminals, drugs, and attempts at armed robbery. Before the fame ...

When Elton John began working on his 1971 album, Madman Across the Water with Bernie Taupin they named the lead single after the Band‘s drummer Levon Helm. Though the song was believed to be ...

Levon Helm never could understand why The Band had to be dissolved in 1976. “What a sin it is, to take a good group from productivity to oblivion,” he scowled in his autobiography 20 years later.