Levon Helm
18 January 2008
WXPN World Cafe (NPR)

1 Intro
2 Interview
3. Little Bird ***REMOVED***
4. Interview
5. Train Robbery ***REMOVED***
6. Interview
7. The Weight ***REMOVED***
8. Interview
9. Dirt Farmer ***REMOVED***
10. Interview


Album tracks have been removed. The broadcast in it's original form continued with four tracks from a then-recent ramble, a fifth was included on the web site. As Levon Helm Studios is on the NAV list, only the interview portion of this broadcast is being shared. The website description of the full episode is below.


NPR broadcast > ? > WAV file. WAV file edited and re-tracked with Sound Studio 3, compressed to FLAC level 8 verified with xACT v1.71, fingerprints included in torrent.

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18 January 2008

Beyond The Band with the blues

WXPN World Cafe (NPR)

43:07

Levon Helm is best known as the drummer for the '60s rock group The Band. In the late '90s he returned to a solo career in blues music, most recently releasing Dirt Farmer. Hear an extended interview of his career and a performance from WXPN. Includes excerpts from studio tracks (Anna Lee & Train Robbery) from various albums, plus live performance:

* "Ashes of Love"
* "Bye Bye Love"
* "Going Back to Memphis"
* "Got Me a Woman"
* "Fanny Mae" (web only)