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Oh Brother Where Art Thou? The Night They Drove Ole Levon Down

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, July 2012

IN THE BACKWOODS gang that was The Band, Levon Helm was the lean and wiry chancer with one eye on the ladies and a voice that yelped and snarled with southern poetry and soul.

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