Levon Helm - Levon Helm and The RCO All-Stars (1977, re-issue 1996)

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The Band ? No, Levon Helm
(but it's nearly the same...)

The cover looks like one of those kitsch Christmas postcards ― a pretty wooden house in an immaculate snowy landscape ― and from the very first notes of the opening track, “Washer Woman”, one immediately thinks of the legendary group The Band whose first album was also showing a big house, a pink one, on the rear cover.

Not surprising, because Mark Lavon Helm (1940-2012) was one of the singers and the drummer of the Canadian group whose very first name was… Levon and The Hawks ! He was also the only American in the group and, as most of his Band mates, a multi-instrumentalist who could also play harmonica, mandolin, guitar and bass.