Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs he sang that found their way onto the pop charts during his long tenure as drummer and singer for the Band: “Up On Cripple Creek,” “The Night They Drove ...

Leave it to Lucinda Williams, whose astringent lyrics have proven her capable of leaving no romantic notion unexamined, to ask the question of the hour. Sitting backstage at the Izod Center, in East ...

Thirty minutes outside of New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington, Dry Creek Quarry isn’t where most people would think the fate of Middle-earth would be decided. But it was here that, for 120 days, ...

In the early fall of 2007, I traveled to Woodstock, N.Y., to interview Levon Helm, the legendary Band drummer and vocalist who passed away last Thursday at the age of 71, following a long fight with ...

In 2010, Levon Helm released what would be his final studio album, Electric Dirt, which included a song called "When I Go Away". Loosely based on a traditional folk dirge, it confronts the reality of ...

The country boy behind the group’s hits "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek" loses his long battle with throat cancer. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Levon Helm, whose Arkansas country voice and ...

After a long battle with cancer, Leon Helm died today. He was 71. "Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon," a statement posted on his website read. "He was surrounded by family, friends and band ...