If you know rock 'n' roll history, you probably know the story of how Helm became a teenage rocker with the help of Ronnie Hawkins, a bacchanalian showman of the old school. Eventually, Hawkins was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Levon Helm's boyhood home in Marvell has been nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The house, which was originally in Turkey Scratch, was moved to a pecan grove in ...

The Band’s final show transpired on November 25, 1976. The lineup for the one-night show was arguably more decorated than Woodstock, as it featured Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, ...

If only because it shows off the talents of the greatest singing drummer in rock ’n’ roll history—that’d be musician-turned-actor Levon Helm—Martin Scorsese’s 1978 concert film The Last Waltz would be ...

Helm, the longtime drummer of The Band who backed Bob Dylan and sang with Van Morrison, died Thursday. He was 71. Fresh Air remembers Helm with... Levon Helm: The 2007 Fresh Air Interview Levon Helm: ...

Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died.