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50+ MusicOn Apr 19, 2012: #LevonHelm, American drummer and singer (The Band - "Up On Cripple Creek"; "The Weight"), and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter; The Right Stuff), died from throat cancer at 71.
#RIP 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️
Robin BannksThe Band
April 17, 18, 19 1969 ~ Bill Graham books Dylan’s back-up band at The Winterland. The Band is born. #theband #billgraham #thewinterland #robbierobertson #garthhudson #richardmanuel #rickdanko #levonhelm #music #musicsky #musiciansky
https://robinbannks.com/2026/04/17/april-17-1969-bill-graham-books-dylans-back-up/
"Up on Cripple Creek" is the fifth song on #theBand's eponymous second album, The Band. It was released as an (edited) #single on Capitol 2635 in November 1969 and reached No. 25 on the #Billboard Hot 100. "Up on Cripple Creek" was written by Band guitarist #RobbieRobertson, with drummer #LevonHelm singing lead vocal. A 1976 live performance of "Up on Cripple Creek" appears in the Band's concert film #TheLastWaltz, as well as on the accompanying #soundtrack album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsdUzN20Sow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsdUzN20Sow
The Last Waltz (1978) - Up on Cripple Creek Scene (2/7) | Movieclips
"Up on Cripple Creek" is the fifth song on #theBand's eponymous second album, The Band. It was released as an (edited) #single on Capitol 2635 in November 1969 and reached No. 25 on the #Billboard Hot 100. "Up on Cripple Creek" was written by Band guitarist #RobbieRobertson, with drummer #LevonHelm singing lead vocal. A 1976 live performance of "Up on Cripple Creek" appears in the Band's concert film #TheLastWaltz, as well as on the accompanying #soundtrack album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGSf9kViEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGSf9kViEY
Up On Cripple Creek (Remastered 2000)
John EckmanNeil Young, Hawks & Doves, 1980 on Reprise
Eleventh studio album (following Rust Never Sleeps) from Neil Young, with one side collecting things recorded throughout the 70s and the second half from 1980 sessions specific to the album.
Young is joined by Levon Helm, Tim Drummond, and Tom Scribner on Side 1, and by Greg Thomas, Dennis Belfield, Ben Keith, and Rufus Thibodeux on Side 2, which was recorded at Gold Star in Hollywood.
My copy—via Crossroads Records in Portland OR—is a Los Angeles pressing with the custom star labels and inner sleeve.
#1980 #1980s #CrossroadsRecords #DennisBelfield #LevonHelm #NeilYoung #PortlandOR #Reprise #RufusThibodeux #TimDrummond #TomScribner #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
Spooky Panda 🏳️🌈What a long strange trip it's been...
RIP to a hero. I just spent about fifteen minutes crying. We'll be missing you, Bobby. So glad that I got to see you and Phil on stage years ago. And you, earlier in the day, playing with Levon Helm of all things as well. 💔
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by #RobbieRobertson. It was originally recorded by his Canadian-American #rootsRock group #theBand and released on their eponymous second album in 1969. #LevonHelm provided the lead vocals. The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the #AmericanCivilWar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDbnwQlCek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDbnwQlCek
The Last Waltz (1978) - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Scene (5/7) | Movieclips
Bob Dylan, Planet Waves, 1974 on Asylum
Dylan’s first album after leaving Columbia for Asylum Records, with The Band as the backing group, and his fourteenth overall. (The only other was Before the Flood – both were later reissued by Columbia).
Includes not one but two version of “Forever Young” – fast and slow – along with “Going, Going, Gone” and “On a Night Like This.” Recorded in LA at Village Recorder and produced by Rob Fraboni.
My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is a Speciality Records pressing with the textured sleeve on Asylum labels.
#1970s #1974 #Asylum #BobDylan #ElectricFetus #GarthHudson #LevonHelm #MinneapolisMN #RichardManuel #RickDanko #RobbieRobertson #SpecialtyRecordPressing #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
"Up on Cripple Creek" is the fifth song on #theBand's eponymous second album, The Band. It was released as an (edited) #single on Capitol 2635 in November 1969 and reached No. 25 on the #Billboard Hot 100. "Up on Cripple Creek" was written by Band guitarist #RobbieRobertson, with drummer #LevonHelm singing lead vocal. A 1976 live performance of "Up on Cripple Creek" appears in the Band's concert film #TheLastWaltz, as well as on the accompanying #soundtrack album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGSf9kViEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGSf9kViEY