Levon Helm died 10 years ago today. Read our 2009 feature on the drummer-singer’s legendary Midnight Rambles at his Woodstock barn.
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The Midnight Ramble is Helm’s idea of a perfect house party: old-time music playing late into the night, studio-quality acoustics and a rapt audience, many of whom arrive bearing casseroles for the potluck dinner. There is an appealing intimacy at the barn; from the best seats one can literally reach out and touch Helm’s ride cymbal. “He had been dreaming and scheming this for a couple of decades before he set it in motion,” says Amy Helm.
More than half a century later, and six years after being declared cancer-free, Levon staged his very first Ramble, with a band featuring Chuck Berry pianist Johnnie Johnson. With Helm’s voice still weak, he concentrated on drums while Amy shared vocal duties with blues veteran Little Sammy Davis. “I’d just sing along if the songs were in the right key,” Helm says. “Then it started coming back.
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