Levon Helm: Levon Helm and the RCO All Stars (ABC)
Paul Rambali, NME, 19 November 1977
LEVON HELM was the kid who went north in the late 50s with a rockabilly singer called Ronnie Hawkins, whose talents were dime-a dozen in Arkansas, but fairly unique in Canada.
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