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Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
Maybe someday
48
/100
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Readers
44/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Sandra B. Tooze
Publisher:
Diversion Books
Date:
August 25, 2020
Levon Helm's storyââtold here through research and interviews with close friends and fellow musiciansââis the rollicking story of American popular music itself.
What The Reviewers Say
Tooze brings a man and a musical era to life.
Helm gets his due here—it’s about time—in a biography that spans his impoverished but richly lived rural Arkansas boyhood through his salad days with Ronnie Hawkins and then The Band, that group’s bitter dissolution, and Helm’s final, wonderfully redemptive solo albums.
[Tooze's] fresh investigation couldn’t come at a better time, seeing how Robertson’s version of events – set out in a recent autobiography, documentary, and what feels like daily media interviews – is currently the uncontested narrative.
This meticulously researched book offers music fans a thorough introduction and adds to current material, including Helm’s autobiography This Wheel’s on Fire, Barney Hoskyns’s Across the Great Divide, and the film Ain’t in It for My Health..
