by Suzanne Cadgene | Photograph by Elliott Landy
Levon Helm had three major but overlapping influences in his life, which, like a color wheel, yielded shades a’ plenty to paint his inimitable portrait. Levon’s rural southern upbringing, his relationship with hard-living Ronnie Hawkins and his own music formed the man long before he shed his teens, and by all accounts, Mark Lavon “Levon” Helm had an extraordinary connection with all three until the day he died.
[…] members in the group’s second incarnation during the late ’80s and early ’90s, and by the Levon Helm Band, until the legendary drummer’s death in 2012. But now there is the Weight, five musicians […]