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Levon Helm

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Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died today in New York. 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."
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdLsWkSfcQ"]Levon Helm & The Cate Brothers Band - Sweet Peach Georgia Wine - YouTube[/ame]

Pretty cool portion at the end of this video where Helm talks about his ability to do what always amazed me, sing and drum so well at the same time:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLCmxMrgfDA&feature=related"]The Band - The Making of "Up On Cripple Creek" - YouTube[/ame]
 
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...t_and_drummer_for_the_band_is_dead_at_71.html

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Helm embodied the sound and spirit of Americana music as well as anyone: from The Band?s brilliant late-?60s albums, to his playing on Bob Dylan?s The Basement Tapes, to The Midnight Ramble, the star-studded hoedowns he hosted over the last decade at ?The Barn,? his home and studio in Woodstock, N.Y., Helm devoted his life to roots music. Today ?Americana? is a genre that takes in everyone from Bruce Springsteen to The Carolina Chocolate Drops to alt-country troubadours to the hordes of bearded young folkies who vie for indie rock stardom. All of them are patently?many of them audibly?in Helm?s debt.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBuJB218UvU&context=C4c14e34ADvjVQa1PpcFOO4Vi1ForcFYNZY_gnHNr77TIjQdvhcFA="]Levon Helm "Poor Old Dirt Farmer" Official Music Video - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxsCvZoQs4&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLBCAEA77AAF767D41"]Levon Helm - Short Fat Fannie - YouTube[/ame]
 
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