Levon Helm was a most interesting man.

This post is for my husband and fans of The Band. The Weight, written by Levon Helm, is one of my all time favorite songs. I don’t even mind the earworm.

I knew he was a singer/song writer. I knew he lost his voice to cancer but regained it and even released a new album– won a Grammy before he passed away on April 19th, 2012.

But I never realized he was an actor. A damn good one.

He played Loretta Lynn’s father in Coal Miner’s Daughter.

He played test pilot Jack Ridley in The Right Stuff.

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