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Tuesday, April 17. 2012

Email received today from Levon Helm's family

Dear Friends,


 
Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey. Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration... he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage...

We appreciate all the love and support and concern.



From his daughter Amy and wife Sandy

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"Now I don't mind choppin' wood,
And I don't care if the money's no good.
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest.
But they should never have taken the very best."
#1 vanderleun (Link) on 2012-04-17 18:28 (Reply)
That song was way ahead of its time, if you get my drift.
#1.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-18 00:22 (Reply)
Well... just damn.
#2 vanderleun (Link) on 2012-04-17 18:36 (Reply)
Sad news, my prayers for he and his family
#2.1 groman on 2012-04-17 18:56 (Reply)
You'll all want to watch this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=Jie9bYCyZDI
#3 vanderleun (Link) on 2012-04-17 18:59 (Reply)
--that was powerful --doubly so, the song performance in the 1978 Scorsese film cut in and out of the present, the text on screen telling one part of a story while the images are telling another part, it's a fine dense weave. More so that it never intended to be anything near an elegy, and yet is becoming against itself the very most moving sort of one.
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-18 01:21 (Reply)
He is a great friend of our little radio station in Bridgeport, CT, as was Rick Danko. Very talented, very funny and very giving.

My colleague sent this along:

http://www.billboard.com/news/levon-helm-in-final-stages-of-cancer-1006790752.story#/news/levon-helm-in-final-stages-of-cancer-1006790752.story
#4 Steve in CT on 2012-04-17 22:49 (Reply)
Very bad news.
#5 Mike (Link) on 2012-04-17 23:30 (Reply)
Don Imus is gonna be stricken. The whole crew over there are big big LH fans.

***

http://www.jacklail.com/blog/the_band_huge.jpg
#6 buddy larsen on 2012-04-18 00:18 (Reply)
Take a load off Levon, and put the load right on me.

Thanks for the music old friend. Thanks for everything.
#7 The Grey Man on 2012-04-18 00:56 (Reply)
I don't understand so much.

But what I know is that of the few posts to my web log of personal thoughts, I just posted Mr. Helms. April 15th. The band The Night via M. Scorsese and all the camera angles.

I just linked the song I think on another web site.

I don't understand why I didn't know about Mr. Helms' health before now, why I just got down on my knees and prayed his health would be better, and how this all makes sense somehow.

There must be some logical, rational explanation. I must have heard/read/? something at some point (or points) that explains this all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VShpcqd3zE

Please don't publish the following although I don't really care if you do, but if easy please don't:

http://metabuckley.com/
#8 notquiteunBuckley (Link) on 2012-04-18 02:49 (Reply)
--sometimes the universe is just so enormous
#8.1 buddy larsen on 2012-04-18 03:11 (Reply)
Comfort and peace to you, Levon, as you walk this last path . . . may those around you find solace in the remembrance of all you've shared . . . Thank you for the gift of your music and your ready smile . . . faith, brother! and dream beautiful dreams of contented and holy tomorrows . . . as we who linger carry your memory as a reward.
#9 Jephnol (Link) on 2012-04-18 18:21 (Reply)
I was watching an interview with Levon a few years ago when that distinctive voice made me think of "There was a demon in the sky", the opening line to the movie "The Right Stuff". I hadn't watched the movie for years but I got it out and sure enough, it was Levon. For me, that line set the tone for a great movie, I just wasn't aware at the time who the voice belonged to.
#10 dirk on 2012-04-18 22:08 (Reply)
To the Helm family,to Levon's band mates, and to all of us (myself included):

Daughter, Amy, and wife, Sandy, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I share, in my own humble way, those diametric emotions of loss and joy in homecoming.

I extend similar thoughts and prayers to Levon's band mates on both sides of the curtain.

I sadly express these feelings and actions to the greater "all", of which I am but one.

Loss, by its nature is indeed painful; still loss in the face of the slighted hope of the peace of eternal rest does, at least for me, put a salve on that pain.

Levon Helm, is uniquely American, and is all that is all that is good about it. He shall always remain a great man, a man of the highest integrity, of the highest principle, of the highest family values and of the highest musicanship. He is a great friend l.

Levon is unique. He stands tall as a role model, never selecting the path of "easy" over the more difficult path of "right". Let us learn from our brother, Levon.

Levon is now away from our sight gone for a while, but, it is my hope and I suspect that I am far from alone in this hope, that someday we shall all be reunited in the peace and eternal rest of "the sweet by and by".

Until then. let us honor his memory by taking that great admonition to stay and keep Anna-Lee company.

Rest easy, brother Levon, rest easy.

☮ Randy I,
#11 Randy Iannacone (Link) on 2012-04-20 03:05 (Reply)

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