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Showing posts with label Levon Helm Band Ramble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Levon Helm Band Ramble. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2025

Friday Night Musik

 Another favorite YouTube Link. Wonderful.



Levon Helm and Midnight Ramblers ❤️ πŸŽ™️ πŸ₯ 🎻 🎸 


Friday, February 7, 2025

Friday Night Musik

 Another Favorite YouTube Video 😻 πŸš€ πŸ˜Ž



One of the Greatest night of our lives was at 

Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble with

Kris Kristofferson, Close up,

Warm and Talented,

A really special night 😎

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Music Link Long ago and Far Away

 Music Link from YouTube.

Our Favorite Memories were in Levon’s Barn,

Watching Fine Artists,

Living in the Moment.



Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Levon

 10 years ago yesterday 

Levon Helm left the Material Plane

What a Great Man 

We were honored to be at his Home/Barn/Ramble Venue Several times

In Woodstock, NY ❤️ πŸ₯ 

Remembering Him Often

A Powerful Force in our lives.

Link from YouTube:



Sunday, February 13, 2022

Great Music!

 

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Blues Excellence

Blues Excellence

The Blues 

Main St. Edwardsville, Illinois
The Blue Note
Painted by My Mom, Betsy Gerdt
Then a small town
20 miles east of St. Louis.

Bear with me, I have to start at the beginning...

As we reconnected with the music of Levon Helm,

We wondered "What are these Midnight Rambles?"
                         
Well the best way at the time was to get the DVD's
Of the rambles at LevonHelm.com

These are a great view of Levon's recording studio living room.
They were masterfully created and worth adding to your collection.

They also introduced us to some very talented musicians,
Good people
With an adoration of Levon
And People
And Music.

I particularly enjoyed the concert by

Alexis P Suter and her band.
They blew me away.
Every musician,
No holding back,
Full, forceful, gentle, kind.
Loving, Sadness, Living, suffering, 
Powerful, Honest, and Vulnerable.
The Blues
Blues Excellence






So I recently received a notice that Alexis P Suter has been
Nominated for the Prestigious Koko Taylor award

So well deserved.
All musicians must make their own way to Memphis.
I want to share my feelings that musicians make the world a better place
So please...
Please help Alexis get to Memphis May 7th, 2015

Send donations now to support Stellar Blues Music


The Alexis P Suter Band
Hipbone Records

Alexis put a paypal link at 
http://www.hipbonerecords.com/


Click the Hipbone Records Shop page. Thank you so much for your help!!
Their mailing address is:

Hipbone Records
PO Box 310158
Brooklyn, NY 11231



Here is a YouTube that begins to tell Alexis' Story





About Koko Taylor,
May She Rest in Peace
Great Woman Blues Singer.

Information
From her record label.
http://www.alligator.com/artists/Koko-Taylor/

Notes: this is the 3rd edition this morning.
Somehow the .jpg of the top hat
Kept fighting with me,
Finally emailed myself a copy
And the rest is magic.

Support these talen musicians.
Thank you.  Meg

Friday, January 30, 2015

Music for Friday (or Saturday...or any day...)😎

Levon on my mind a lot,
Our Shaman guide
Through this beautiful, tough, mean old world.

This link  was easy to find.
Search YouTube:
Levon, Ryman.

Did you think life was
Or should be
easy?

When you look over there,
Does it look easier?

Reminder of a story been wanting to tell.

It was a day at work when I was ready to throw in the towel. I worked as a visiting nurse case manager. Travelling, assessing, meeting clients, coordinating services, trying to squeeze health care from the limited wellspring.

I met the woman I needed to visit.
My heart was not in it.
I had been in this mode before. Nursing is emotionally draining.
I tried to put on my best face and smile.

The woman and I connected. We had good discussion as I ran down the list of questions.

At some point I noticed the poster...
Levon Helm...
internally I felt like my adrenaline was beginning to raise,
Like in ICU when someone's alarm went off.
These moments were what I lived for in nursing,
And what takes a serious toll.

I asked her, "So you like Levon?"
Was hoping for some epic tale of The Man,
The Man we saw at his barn/ home/studio
And at the Burlington Vermont Jazz festival.

Then the moment that told me,
"You're in the right place, Mary."

I feel like if you see something
Or feel something, like you have been there before,
Or in common terms:
You see a sign,
That maybe you are where you are supposed to be,
No Matter how tired or spent you are,
The Sign tells you,
You are on the right path.


She laughed,
and pointed to a set of ragged drumsticks hanging on the wall.
"Levon gave those to me..."

Well the rest of the interview shifted to music,
Concerts,
And me wanting the experience,
May I touch them?

They were rough, nicked, and Levon drummed with them
At the Burlington Jazz Festival concert we saw.
I remembered her now,
She was down in front, on the main floor of the theater.

When the concert was over, We saw Levon walk over to her and
He handed her his sticks.
The sticks that kept me working a few more years.

She explained..."I was wearing this Imus hat" She lifted it off her head.
This woman and I had a lot in common..."Oh yeah I listen to him too."...
She said she arranged it with Levon that he would give her his sticks
And the Imus hat was how he knew where she was.

I sat in awe and am still amazed at that special visit,
That special woman,
Who let me touch those special sticks,
The sticks of our Shaman Guide.

We never know when a special moment comes along,
It can be anywhere, anytime, anyone,
Who may inspire you to go on,
Telling you you're on the right path.



Saturday, October 18, 2014

Monday, September 15, 2014

Wanted: Time Machine



Wanted:
Time Machine

Trying to post pictures from my phone
And just grinding my teeth over
Techno- Glitches
Sending me in a new direction.

Fred popped The Midnight Ramble Volume 3 in the
cd player,
I landed on this archival photo
We took in Woodstock, Vermont
Just before tropical storm Irene acted
Like a hurricane
And changed so many lives.

Then listening to Levon, his entourage,
Playing those songs so masterfully.

Where is that time machine?