http://bigfrog104.com The Best And Most Country Thu, 23 May 2013 04:34:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://bigfrog104.com/levon-helm-dead/ http://bigfrog104.com/levon-helm-dead/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:37:40 +0000 Billy Dukes http://tasteofcountry.com/?p=87570 Just one day after his family gave warning that his time was short, Grammy Award-winning musician Levon Helm has died. USA Today reports that Helm died on Thursday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He had been battling throat cancer.

]]> http://bigfrog104.com/levon-helm-dead/feed/ 0 Rod Loud, Getty Images http://bigfrog104.com/levon-helm-of-the-band-battling-cancer/ http://bigfrog104.com/levon-helm-of-the-band-battling-cancer/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:15:38 +0000 Matt Herkimer http://bigfrog104.com/?p=80028 The legendary drummer for "The Band" Levon Helm is in "the final stages" of his battle with cancer according to a press release issued by his wife and daughter and reported by CMT. Helm, the lead vocalist for such Band favorites as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "The Weight", was also a talented actor who starred as Loretta Lynn's father in the 1980 film "Coal Miner's Daughter". Here is the full statement as posted on his website.

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