Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Levon helm

  • Levon Helms soulful melodies and passionate drumming touched millions of fans of The Band, but today we recognize his spirit and perseverance.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Thursday was another "day the music died" like the 1959 Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. This time it was Levon Helm passing just a few hours after Dick Clark.
  • (Everything Alabama Blog)
  • CHICAGO _ Levon Helm was the rarest of musical multi-taskers: an unflappable drummer and a singer who wrung soul out of every note. He also was a terrific team player and bandmate; he made the people around him sound good.
  • (nola.com)
  • Levon was a Southerner. And as much as Virgil Caine, the Dont Tread On Me figure he embodies in Dixie, he believed in hard work and fighting back.
  • (Village Voice (blog))
  • Levon Helm was the Arkansas-born drummer/singer/mandolin player with the otherwise Canadian group The Band: his brilliant playing and inimitably good-old-boy singing supplied the cornerstone for the sound of these Americana forefathers.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • The sprit of Levon Helm, who died Thursday after a long battle with cancer, was certainly felt at the second installment of the Coachella Music and Arts festival this weekend.
  • (Hollywood Reporter)
  • CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Levon Helm, rock musics best singing drummer, passed away Thursday afternoon at age 71. Helm, mainly known for his work with The Band, had battled throat cancer for more than 10 years. It was the end of an extraordinary life.
  • (Charleston Gazette)
  • WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Journey Blue Heaven was making music Friday afternoon near the Woodstock village green. It was a tribute to one of the town's favorite sons, Levon Helm.
  • (Daily Freeman)
  • More often, though, the deaths feel like losing an old friend. Such was the case last Thursday, when Levon Helm of The Band died of cancer at 71.
  • (Burlington County Times)

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