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Permalink Reply by Cris Portillo Jr. on April 18, 2012 at 6:50am

I was just listening to Cripple creek, this new makes me sad.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on April 18, 2012 at 7:06pm

Dangit, we're all gettin' older, and everyone's headed for that great gig in the sky...

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on April 19, 2012 at 10:11am

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Permalink Reply by Cris Portillo Jr. on April 19, 2012 at 10:16am

RIP Levon.

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Permalink Reply by Clock The Wolf on April 19, 2012 at 3:47pm

Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dies at 71 By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Thursday, April 19, 2012

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/19/nationa...

(04-19) 14:08 PDT 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 authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story.

In truth, the group had only one American — Levon Helm.

Helm, the drummer and singer who brought an urgent beat and a genuine Arkansas twang to some of The Band's best-known songs and helped turn a bunch of musicians known mostly as Bob Dylan's backup group into one of rock's most legendary acts, has died. He was 71.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on April 19, 2012 at 10:20pm

Virgil Caine is my name...

Thanks, Levon, for the songs, the sound, and the truth of your music. You will be missed.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on April 20, 2012 at 6:13pm

RIP Levon, you'll truly be missed.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on April 21, 2012 at 12:19am

It doen't and it won't ever get better then the Band     .

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