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Things weren't looking that great for Levon Helm in the early 2000s. The Phillips County native, drummer, vocalist and founding member of The Band was battling throat cancer and had again filed for bankruptcy. The cancer had silenced his singing voice, one of the most distinct in rock 'n' roll, and because of the money problems he was on the brink of losing his house and property in Woodstock, N.Y.
Things weren't looking that great for Levon Helm in the early 2000s. The Phillips County native, drummer, vocalist and founding member of The Band was battling throat cancer and had again filed for bankruptcy.
Levon Helm, The Band, and the birth of Americana
Because so many of Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese's movies have been set and shot in his native New York, it's easy to forget that his first movie for a Hollywood studio was actually filmed near Camden.
In small communities, the people responsible for crucial public services say with bare-bones workforces already stretched thin, there is no margin for error when multiple workers have to call in sick.