{"id":10851,"date":"2012-04-19T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/04\/19\/levon-helm-called-up-his-big-m\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:29:30","slug":"levon-helm-called-up-his-big-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/levon-helm-called-up-his-big-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Levon Helm Called Up his Big Mamma and He&#039;ll be Rollin&#039; In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite musicians ever died today at the age of 71.  I happen to play two songs with him singing and playing today.  I do that most days because they are on my gym tape.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Levon was a member of The Band, but he was also in The Hawks (with Ronnie Hawkins) and worked on his own.  The early proto-band was Dylan&#8217;s backing band.  Levon is not the first member of The Band to die.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of items to remember him by:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nTurn your volume up.  Here&#8217;s Levon playing the drums and singing. This is from the concert movie and album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00003CXB1\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00003CXB1\">The Last Waltz<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00003CXB1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, though it was not part of the concert:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjCw3-YTffo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM&#038;feature=related\">unembedable but linked to<\/a>, is the onstage performance from the Last Waltz of &#8220;The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And heres&#8217; &#8220;Ophelia&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4RjqcTsxx-8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, &#8220;Up on Cripple Creek&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDnlU6rPfwY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Levon Helm, heading back to his big mama for the final time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>I know, I know, it&#8217;s not a tape. Not even a Walkman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite musicians ever died today at the age of 71. I happen to play two songs with him singing and playing today. I do that most days because they are on my gym tape.1 Levon was a member of The Band, but he was also in The Hawks (with Ronnie Hawkins) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/levon-helm-called-up-his-big-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Levon Helm Called Up his Big Mamma and He&#039;ll be Rollin&#039; In<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2P1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}