A fascinating story of drugs, cancer, bankruptcy, unpaid royalties and unresolved resentments. With a career extending from the heyday of rockabilly to his current incarnation as upstate New York ...

On June 20 the Transparent Clinch Gallery will host an event centered around the life and legacy of Levon Helm. Author John Barry will be on hand to discuss his book Levon Helm: Rock, Roll & ...

This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. Purity of spirit is one of the greatest ingredients of creative genius. And that's exactly what is captured in the new documentary about Levon Helm, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday, we reported that Levon Helm was not going to perform at Jazz Fest due to health issues. Today his daughter Amy and his wife Sandy have issued a statement: Levon is in the final stages of ...

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 ...

Jacob Hatley, a USC film school graduate and native of a small southern town, captured a remarkable time in Levon Helm's life. It was a time when the musician, most well known as the renowned drummer ...

In this May 15, 2010 photo, Levon Helm plays drums with the Levon Helm Band during a Ramble at Helm's barn in Woodstock, N.Y. Helm, who was in the final stages of his battle with cancer, died Thursday ...

Larry Campbell played guitar alongside Bob Dylan for seven years. He’s worked with B.B. King and Jorma Kaukonen, too, Paul Simon and Cyndi Lauper. But in 2012, Campbell and his wife, the singer Teresa ...