LEVON HELM, dies at 71

[jamestkirk]

My favorite drummer and what a singer/songwriter of the highest talent!

Levon Helm in last stages of cancer....





Dear Friends,
We have just received the following letter from Levon Helm's daughter
Amy and wife Sandy. He is a hero and we love him. Please keep Levon
and his family in your prayers.

From Levon's family to us all...



Dear Friends,

Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send
your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of
his journey.
Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with
joy and celebration... he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill
the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people
dance! He did it every time he took the stage...

We appreciate all the love and support and concern.
From his daughter Amy, and wife Sandy

The Weight..the voice, the drums....Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vou51-7 ... re=related




Sad, sad news. Bless you, Levon, for the music.

[The Freedom Man]

indeed very sad news,
I had just watched the DVD "Festival Express" when I read this.Sad...

[Roughie]

indeed very sad news,
I had just watched the DVD "Festival Express" when I read this.Sad...

Yes sad indeed.

Festival Express is a good doco, must re-watch it tonight.

[jamestkirk]

Levon Helm of the Band dies at 71






By David Browne, Rolling Stone

Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19 in New York of throat cancer. He was 71.

"He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and bandmates," Helm's longtime guitarist Larry Campbell tells Rolling Stone. "All his friends were there, and it seemed like Levon was waiting for them. Ten minutes after they left we sat there and he just faded away. He did it with dignity. It was even two days ago they thought it would happen within hours, but he held on. It seems like he was Levon up to the end, doing it the way he wanted to do it. He loved us, we loved him."

In the late Nineties, Helm –- whose singing anchored Band classics like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Up on Cripple Creek," "Rag Mama Rag," and "The Weight" –- was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent 28 radiation treatments, eventually recovering his voice. In recent weeks, however, Helm had canceled a number of shows, including one at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on April 27 and another in Montclair, N.J.

[The Freedom Man]

shit

[jamestkirk]

shit

Couldn't have said it better, Ed. So sad...such a loss.

[LaurelCanyon]

Sad, very sad.
Listening now to The Band Remasters album.
What a great band!