Celebrating Levon Helm w/ John Barry & Larry Campbell
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Although he passed away a decade ago, Levon Helm is still the voice of Americana music. Always will be, in my opinion. Levon was drummer for The Band, collaborator with Bob Dylan, actor, husband, father, and friend. In his new book, Levon Helm: Rock, Roll, Ramble, author John Barry gives a first-hand account of Levon's struggles with cancer and financial ruin that led to the legendary Midnight Rambles concerts at his home in Woodstock, New York.
On this episode of the Road to Now, Bob celebrates the life of Levon Helm with John, and musician and producer Larry Campbell who has worked with Levon, as well as Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, K.D. Lang, and Willie Nelson..
This is a rebroadcast of RTN #250, which originally aired on October 22, 2022. This rebroadcast was edited by Otto Schroth.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford, and this is The Road to Now. This week, on The Road to Now, we are in New York, |
| 0:07.6 | New York State, and New York City. We are visiting with John Barry and Larry Campbell, |
| 0:14.4 | the great musician Larry Campbell, the great author, John Barry, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:18.6 | Levant Helm. John recently published a new book about |
| 0:21.6 | LeVon called LeVon Helm Rock, Roll, Ramble, the inside story of the man, the music, and the |
| 0:29.0 | Midnight Ramble. Gentlemen, I am honored to have you both here to talk about this great man. |
| 0:36.2 | Great to be here, Bob. Thanks for having us. |
| 0:38.3 | It's an honor to be here. |
| 0:40.3 | I just want to begin with a quick little anecdote. |
| 0:43.3 | Several years ago, we were driving around up near Woodstock, New York, and we got a phone call from Amy Helm. |
| 0:52.3 | And we knew Amy from playing shows with her great gospel |
| 0:56.4 | group, Olabelle. And Amy said, you guys are up in New York. I know you are. I saw your schedule. |
| 1:03.0 | Why don't you go see my dad? And so we went and we visited, we spent an afternoon with Levin. And, |
| 1:10.6 | you know, at the time, we were, |
| 1:13.0 | I don't know how many years we were a band, but it wasn't long. And we hadn't met many people. |
| 1:18.2 | And he was the first icon, I would say, of music that I ever personally met. And what an |
| 1:27.0 | amazingly generous man. So kind. An immediate connection we all had. |
| 1:34.1 | But after reading your book, John, I feel like a lot of people felt that way when they met Levin. |
| 1:40.0 | They really did, Bob. And that was one of the things I really worked very hard to convey in the book. |
| 1:46.9 | I spent a lot of time over years up at the studio. |
| 1:53.2 | You know, I was very grateful to be welcomed in by Levan and Larry and the band and the team and his management. |
| 2:03.3 | And for me, it was really an experience of witnessing and experiencing things on so many levels, |
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