Levon Helm

[MRhet]

This is why he's one of my favorite musicians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adFgQCa4 ... 66A1ABFF59

This.

[langmick]

Singing and drumming...I think every drummer needs to understand it.

Jim Keltner's groove is so similar...big and rounch, moves like mud...

[langmick]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBV_RB3-7o0[/youtube]

He had that easy way, prolly not for him, of changing grooves so nicely...that's what I first got from his playing. He could glide from half time to 4/4 and the other way around so fluidly, I couldn't figure it out...

[langmick]

He picks up the turnarounds so well...wow.

I learned so much from him.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5Jl3zxabo[/youtube]

[Yussuf]

Very sad to lose Levon. Sad to see all the giants go. Cancer is unfair.

[Morgenthaler]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... 1-20120419

RIP

[langmick]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf8me0AHuC8[/youtube]

[Clint Hopkins]

So sad. RIP Levon. You'll be greatly missed.

[willyz]

This is a big one. Sad stuff...

[S.P]

RIP Levon. I gotta say I've never checked him out until now...BBC News had a good bit about him and a barn where he would play every Saturday night.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17779551