Levon Helm, the founding drummer of the Band who became a creative force in roots music and cherished Americana icon as a solo performer, died today at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. 'Carry Me Home' is out tomorrow, an album of music recorded live in the ...

Like many younger fans of Levon Helm, my first real exposure to his music was from the film The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese’s documentary about The Band’s farewell concert, which took place in San ...

Mavis Staples and Levon Helm highlight a really strong New Music Mondays with some help from Kendrick Lamar and the Black Keys. Summer is almost here and it is quite clear as I pack up and head home ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — In the summer of 2011, two American iconic musicians met and jammed up a storm. Very few people heard what they created — until now. The 12-track live album “Carry Me Home” is the ...

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, former drummer and vocalist for the '60s and '70s rock group, The Band, recounts his early fame, his battle against throat cancer and his continuing solo career. In 1996, Helm was ...

Levon Helm, drummer and vocalist for legendary roots-rock outfit The Band, has died at age 71. The Associated Press archiveLevon Helm, a former member of The Band, was diagnosed with throat cancer in ...

John Barry was working as a music writer for the Poughkeepsie Journal in October of 2004 when he first met Levon Helm, legendary drummer and vocalist for The Band. Barry received a call from Barbara O ...

Whatever else Levon Helm's work with The Band added to the rock 'n' roll lexicon, they did deny the glamour of rock dreams, and that was one thing that set the Arkansas native and his bandmates apart ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Today Mavis Staples and Levon Helm's spirited rendition of Nina Simone's "I ...

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 ...