If you know rock 'n' roll history, you probably know the story of how Helm became a teenage rocker with the help of Ronnie Hawkins, a bacchanalian showman of the old school. Eventually, Hawkins was ...

Born in 1940, Levon Helm showed an early gift on the drums. Growing up on a cotton farm, music became his way out of a hard-labor life. Allison Murphy Editor's Note: Levon Helm died on Thursday, April ...

Levon Helm, who died in New York on April 19, age 71, from the cancer that he had been fighting for more than a decade, was one of the most celebrated rock drummers of the last 50 years. He uniquely ...

If only because it shows off the talents of the greatest singing drummer in rock ’n’ roll history—that’d be musician-turned-actor Levon Helm—Martin Scorsese’s 1978 concert film The Last Waltz would be ...

Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died.