The band

• This email has just gone out from the Americana Music Association. Levon Helm is dying. This is so sad. Only Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson will be the surviving members of The Band. Rick Danko and Richard Manuel are already gone.
(Forbes)
• Drummer Levon Helm, a longtime member of The Band, is in the final stages of cancer, his family said on Tuesday.
(msnbc.com)
• Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey, his wife, Sandy, and daughter Amy wrote in a message posted to the artists website.
(News4Jax.com)
• China's doubling of the yuan trading band signals official confidence in the strength of the economy's expansion and suggests policymaking is unimpeded by the ouster of Bo Xilai from the Communist Party leadership.
(Bloomberg)
• By JOHN MONE Associated Press CULVER CITY, Calif.
(msnbc.com)
• This wonderful, rousing anthem  has been banned At Virginia Military Institute,  Ole Miss and even at the Citadel…..all over the south …because it was claimed to be offensive to those who suffer from  "false memory syndrome".
(RedState)
• Young Seattle soul band Ayron Jones and the Way is in the running for the grand prize in a major rock contest.
(Seattle Times)
• KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C., Dec. 5, 2009 -- After forming in 2001, members of The Front Porch Country Band found themselves suddenly catapulted into the international spotlight after gleaning well over a million plays from the free-download Website MP3.com.
(American Reporter)