With Levon at the helm, The Band was an adult rock group — for 1969 listeners, The Band represented a last gasp for a country unable to confront its own dark history, a refuge where all men can sing ...

Helm played superpowered, shifting backbeats, helped Bob Dylan go electric and sang some of The Band's biggest hits, including "The Weight" and... Levon Helm, Drummer And Singer In The Band, Dies ...

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 ...

The gray-headed stranger has, as of late, taken his place in the pantheon of the most notable singers of the great American songbook (which includes Frank Sinatra and, uh, Rod Stewart). In a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With songs like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek,” The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that seemed as ...

You can look at the story of the Band as a triumph. You made incredible albums that will live forever. It could also be seen as a tragedy in some ways, because you were never able to come together ...

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 ...

Bob Dylan and The Band are intertwined in rock and roll history, which is quite amazing when you think about what an odd pairing they seemed at the beginning of their time spent playing together.

Levon Helm, the drummer and gritty-voiced singer with The Band, a revered rock group that recorded and collaborated with Bob Dylan and was one of the most influential music acts of the 1960s and '70s, ...