Levon Helm’s Cancer Battle in ‘Final Stages’
 

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Cancer sucks, such a great singer.

Loved him in Coal Miner's Daughter. :(

Most people here never heard of him.

Great musician, highly influential, and made an indelible mark on the culture, even if his name isn't widely known.

His and The Band's best song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRDM7GyJXE

One of my grandfathers was a coal miner in eastern Kentucky who died relatively young (aged 42), so my sisters and I always sort of imagined him as Levon Helm as Ted Webb.

He was also really touching in a small part in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

I'm kinda partial to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisXJSsULGM and this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceRg_rxXQ_E&feature=related

My husband and I saw him perform at The Ryman Theater in Nashville about three years ago. To date, the best shows I've ever seen at the Mother Church, and probably one of the best concerts I've ever seen, period.

Here's an interview from 2007:

http://youtu.be/4cnAfSsk2wc

:(

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Had The Last Waltz playing in loops in my office all day.

I love the movie The Right Stuff, and he was great as the narrator, and the guy who was always giving Chuck Yeager a stick of gum before he went off to set some flight record.