Levon Helm, the supremely talented multi-instrumentalist and singer best known as the drummer and co-lead vocalist of the influential Americana group The Band, died on April 19, 2012. He was 71.

Levon Helm wasn't going to let a throat cancer diagnosis get the better of him, and this late-career song is the perfect ...

Helm wasn't exactly the leader, although it's his voice on "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the famous Civil War narrative that appears on 1969's The Band. And while the others pitch in on Big ...

Helm played superpowered, shifting backbeats, helped Bob Dylan go electric and sang some of The Band's biggest hits, including "The Weight" and... Levon Helm, Drummer And Singer In The Band, Dies ...

Born in 1940, Levon Helm showed an early gift on the drums. Growing up on a cotton farm, music became his way out of a hard-labor life. Allison Murphy Editor's Note: Levon Helm died on Thursday, April ...

Fifty-five years ago this summer, The Band released "Music from Big Pink," an iconic album composed primarily in a sleepy town just outside Woodstock, New York. A year later, hundreds of thousands ...

April 18 (Reuters) - Levon Helm, drummer and singer of root rock group The Band, left behind more than a lifetime of music when he died of cancer a year ago. Sign up here. The four-time Grammy winner ...

Levon Helm, who died in New York on April 19, age 71, from the cancer that he had been fighting for more than a decade, was one of the most celebrated rock drummers of the last 50 years. He uniquely ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Author and journalist John Barry will discuss his book, “Levon Helm: Rock, Roll & Ramble — The Inside Story of the Man, the Music and the Midnight Ramble,” at 6 p.m. on Sept. 15 at ...