NP - A Tribute to Levon Helm

[Johnny Marr]

Hope he pulls into Nazareth safely tonight.

As a younger listener, whilst aware of his indelible work with Dylan and
The Band, I also loved his contribution to Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev.
Plays drums on Opus 40 - you can't mistake that sound, that timing, that
feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusKcZjj7dg


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Woodstock Music and Art Festival. I was young, higher than the clouds,
> warm as a patch of sun, sitting out on the hill at Yasgur's farm with my
> arms around a gentle young woman I met that day. It was late Sunday night
> and the Band took the stage and you know how it is when that melancholy
> sweetness just draws out the sorrow and washes it away. The whole hill of
> people seemed to hush and huddle closer. I could feel the back porch, honky
> tonk, radio blasting, do wop, hot lick, crazy ass roots of american music
> coming through my own generation and the gap between audience and performer
> narrowed somehow sitting on that muddy hill. It didn't seem so far away, so
> separate.  Not long after that I took up the flute and began to feel more
> myself.
>
>
> On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Joe Allonby wrote:
>
> > Got to meet him backstage at Northeastern about 18 years ago. He was a
> > gracious gentleman.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:43 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> >> What a man what a singer and what a drummer.  I have a house in West
> >> Saugerties and I'm picturing the entire Catskill preserve draped in
> black
> >> bunting.
> >>
> >> I was at a Ramble most recently about a year ago.  He looked frail, but
> he
> >> played for about three hours, did most of the singing and, amidst the
> great
> >> band he had put together, still the kicker and the focus.
> >>
> >> He's like Mingus, in that, with that band, he put in place something
> that
> >> will carry his music, his approach to music, forward.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> >> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >> Sent: Wed, Apr 18, 2012 11:23 am
> >> Subject: NP - A Tribute to Levon Helm
> >>
> >> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/levon-helm-america-8173059
>
>
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