Levon Helm Band, Mumford & Sons, Elton John, Mavis Staples, T-Bone Burnett and Alabama Shakes singer Brittany Howard performed "The Weight" as a tribute to Levon and other recently deceased musicians. They also dedicated the song to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. In May 2013, the New York State Legislature approved a resolution to name State Route 375—the road which connects State Route 28 with the town of Woodstock—"Levon Helm Memorial Boulevard". Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill on June 20, 2013. In July 2017, U.S. 49 from Marvell, Arkansas to Helena-West Helena was named The Levon Helm
Zachary Leader Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964", which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the U.K. "The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965 to 2005" will be published in 2018. He has written and edited a dozen books, including both volumes of the Bellow biography, and is General Editor of "The Oxford History of Life-Writing", a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Whiting, Huntington, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Zachary Leader Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at the