Post your favorite songs by The Band and Levon Helm

[LynneSin]

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[Ptah]

1. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

[Arugula Latte]

2. It Makes No Difference

[mac56]

7. mine too

[SCantiGOP]

35. ditto

One of my top 5 by ever

[EFerrari]

13. This is mine.

My love died in an accident but I always hear this one as if he's in bed next to me and like there's a day ahead of us. He loved The Band. We were addicts. And this cut always sounds like the sun coming up to me.

[Arugula Latte]

24. Sorry for your loss.

I'm glad this song helps bring your love back to you.

[CBHagman]

18. You beat me to it, AL.

"It Makes No Difference" is, for me, the ultimate heartbreak song.

The Band also did wonderful covers of "Share Your Love with Me" and "The Great Pretender," but I can't find a decent video of the latter on YouTube.

[Danmel]

36. that is an incredible song

So emotional. I also love up on cripple creek

[teach1st]

3. Stage Fright

[Bake]

4. The Weight

RIP, Levon

Bake

[rocktivity]

5. Don't Do It (the song that opened The Last Waltz)

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[nolabear]

6. "Why do the best things always disappear?"

Like Ophelia...

God, so wonderful. I will miss that man.

[Ellipsis]

8. The shape I'm in.

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[IcyPeas]

9. a Christmas song by the Band

Christmas must be tonight.

[applegrove]

10. I love Robbie Robertson's "Somewhere Down The Crazy River".

[EFerrari]

11. Thank you so much, Lynne.

Thought I was going to be tearing up here all by myself for days.

This is Van Morrison at the Last Waltz with Levon on drums.

[banned from Kos]

17. hey, adding Van the Man is cheating! And yes, Caravan is my fave too

on the Last Waltz.

[nolabear]

12. Levon's song about his own death:

Well all right! "The sun's gonna shine through the shadows..."

Preach it, Brother Levon! I hope you're right.

[greendog]

14. "Ophelia", recorded just a few weeks ago at Levon's place in Woodstock.

[edbermac]

15. Everyone should see The Last Waltz and not just for Levon Helm and The Band

They were great and so was their set with Bob Dylan.

As was Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Dr John, The Staples, Emmylou Harris.

And Muddy Waters totally killed with Mannish Boy. "Wasn't that a man!"

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[EFerrari]

16. The line up shows you how The Band brought people together.

My personal fav after watching Van Morrison who had not been on stage for a while, is watching Joni Mitchell object to Neil Young trying to feel her up on stage.

Good times.

[CBHagman]

19. Cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Atlantic City."

[Cheap_Trick]

27. Was going to post this one too.

Although I am more partial to The Boss's version.

[Jokerman]

20. Up On Cripple Creek

she sends me...

Damn, I had just finished listening to "To Kingdom Come" when I opened a news site and read that Levon was gone.

[bananas]

22. A drunkards dream if I ever did see one...

[AlbertCat]

21. I likes me some "Time to kill"

[wilt the stilt]

23. I work with a guy who's best friend is a Sr VP at capitol Records

which as you all know the Band's label. They were texting all day. it was very somber at capitol records yesterday.

[retread]

25. Was in the Army, counting the minutes when I heard this one.

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[radiclib]

26. One of the most beautiful songs ever recorded

It's a Richard song, but Levon's response and harmony vocals bring the gooseflesh.

[Botany]

28. Poor Dirt Farmer

[Amerigo Vespucci]

29. CANNOT BELIEVE no one's posted "The Genetic Method / Chest Fever" yet. Let's fix that.

[rocktivity]

33. Chest Fever isn't Chest Fever without Garth Hudson burning you like molten lava

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Only Deep Purple's Jon Lord did it better.

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[Amerigo Vespucci]

34. Jon Lord's farewell performance with Deep Purple

From the "Live at the NEC 2002" DVD. This segment starts off with Don Airey playing a keyboard solo, followed by a little surprise at the 4:40 mark. I have mixed feelings about the Steve Morse-era Deep Purple...I hung in there, but when Jon Lord left the band, it was pretty much over for me. This is probably my favorite single performance from the Morse era, and I've always felt Lord's entrance is very similar to the end of "Genetic Method" / the beginning riff of "Chest Fever."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

30. This one is SLIGHTLY off-topic, BUT...

...anyone remotely familiar with Eric Clapton's career knows that he left Cream over a Rolling Stone concert review that basically called him and the rest of the band wankers, and while looking for a new direction was overwhelmed by The Band's "Music From Big Pink." He journeyed to Woodtsock to visit the band, with the intention of asking of he could join, but later said he lacked the courage to make the request.

On the event of Richard Manuel's passing, he wrote "Holy Mother." I have always considered it a glimpse into what Clapton thought he could bring to The Band, and an "unofficial" Band song.

[radiclib]

32. Excellent. Thanks for posting.

Eric definitely has it in him.

[pepperbear]

31. "When I Paint My Masterpiece"