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POP NOTES: Helm steeps Electric Dirt in American roots music

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The Band was an uncommon institution in that it had three distinctive yet complementary vocal colors - Richard Manuel's indigo of broken hurt, Rick Danko's maroon melancholy and the earth-toned uplift of Turkey Scratch native Levon Helm, whose instrument was as homely and human as original sin, yet grazed by grace.


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This article was published June 28, 2009 at 2:40 a.m.

Style, Pages 47, 49 on 06/28/2009

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