Summary of Sandra B. Tooze's Levon

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#1 Levon Helm, the drummer, was born in 1940 in the Arkansas Delta. He recalled going to see a late-night show called the midnight ramble, where the jokes were spicier and the girls did a little hoochie-coochie dance.

#2 Arkansas was a state that had never fully recovered from the Civil War. The economy had been devastated by the Great Depression, and slavery was replaced by sharecropping, which was still a form of peonage for blacks and poor whites.

#3 The first school district in Arkansas’s Delta region to integrate was Hoxie in 1955, but in 1957, Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent integration at Little Rock’s Central High School.

#4 Levon’s family lived on A. B. Thompson’s land, and he spent his youth there with the Cavette family. He was a close friend of Clyde and Arlena Cavette, and they all went to grade school together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822535305

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Levon Helm, the drummer, was born in 1940 in the Arkansas Delta. He recalled going to see a late-night show called the midnight ramble, where the jokes were spicier and the girls did a little hoochie-coochie dance.

#2

Arkansas was a state that had never fully recovered from the Civil War. The economy had been devastated by the Great Depression, and slavery was replaced by sharecropping, which was still a form of peonage for blacks and poor whites.

#3

The first school district in Arkansas’s Delta region to integrate was Hoxie in 1955, but in 1957, Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent integration at Little Rock’s Central High School.

#4

Levon’s family lived on A. B. Thompson’s land, and he spent his youth there with the Cavette family. He was a close friend of Clyde and Arlena Cavette, and they all went to grade school together.

#5

Levon and his friends were poor, but they didn’t know it. They didn’t know there was any other way. They didn’t have electricity or an indoor bathroom, but they were never bothered by it.

#6

Levon adored his grandfather Wheeler Wilson, Nell’s father, who lived in Marvell. He was nurtured in an incredibly tight, loving community. Every year on the Fourth of July, the residents of Turkey Scratch got together for a fish-fry picnic.

#7

Music was a significant part of life in Turkey Scratch, especially in the Helm household. Levon’s musical tastes were significantly shaped by a steady diet of blues on Helena’s Radio KFFA, which was inaugurated in 1941 upstairs in the Floyd Truck Lines building on Cherry Street.

#8

The King Biscuit Entertainers was a radio show that featured live performances by harmonica player and singer Sonny Boy Williamson II, electric guitarist Robert Lockwood, and drummer James Peck Curtis. It was a huge success.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Levon and his friends would often get into fights at the County Line School, and he would always be the one to step up to take care of his friends. He and his friends would then go to school in Marvell,