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HAPPY 80TH, LEVON! Born May 26, 1940 in Elaine, AR.

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Donna Gardner

I was so honored to spend a weekend with Levon, Rick, The Hawk at Don Tyson's 50th birthday party. He treated me like we had known each other all our lives. Such A Great Man

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Stu Kleine

Levon made an impression that was so endearing and enduring. A modest, unassuming man of inestimable talent, and so reminiscent of the country roots he came from.

He’s missed for that magnetic quality, as well as for the unique sound he forged with hi…

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Dave Carr

Saw him and his band on their last tour in 2011. When he sang "I shall be released", I bawled like a baby. Such a loss.

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James Miller

Music from Big Pink was one of mind and my friend Robert Bevans BEVO, we would spend hours listening to the album and sitting next to the water at his lake house, thank you, Levon, for all the good memories. RIP

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Su Lynn Hanson

We only missed seeing him for the last time by about 3 months. We did not cancel and so glad we did not because for us he was all around, through Larry and all the amazing musicians. Looking at another date with the changed schedule. Grandkids here …

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David How

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Levon Helm

American musician (1940–2012)

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012)^[1] was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Helm was known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, multi-instrumental ability, and creative drumming style, highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

Helm also had a successful career as a film actor, appearing as Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), as Chuck Yeager's friend and colleague Captain Jack Ridley in The Right Stuff (1983), Laura Dern's father in Smooth Talk (1985), as a Tennessee firearms expert in Shooter (2007), and as General John Bell Hood in In the Electric Mist (2009).

In 1998, Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer which caused him to lose his singing voice. After treatment, his cancer eventually went into remission, and he gradually regained the use of his voice. His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine