Levon Helm's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. The birth-card coordinate for May 26 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Performers with The Band induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1994 Performers — inducted member of The Band

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Levon Helm's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Levon Helm. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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Levon Helm in the public record

Helm was known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, multi-instrumental ability, and creative drumming style, highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Helm also had a successful career as a film actor, appearing as Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), as Chuck Yeager's friend and colleague Captain Jack Ridley in The Right Stuff (1983), the father of Laura Dern's character in Smooth Talk (1985), as a Tennessee firearms expert in Shooter (2007), and as General John Bell Hood in In the Electric Mist (2009). In 1998, Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer, which caused him to lose his singing voice. After treatment, his cancer eventually went into remission, and he gradually regained the use of his voice. His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 91 on its list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2010, Electric Dirt, his 2009 follow-up to Dirt Farmer, won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, a category inaugurated in 2010. In 2011, his live album Ramble at the Ryman won the Grammy in the same category.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Levon Helm (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Levon Helm, and not a forecast of induction.

Strategic and powerful thinking

Helm also had a successful career as a film actor, appearing as Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), as Chuck Yeager's friend and colleague Captain Jack Ridley in The Right Stuff (1983), the father of Laura Dern's character in Smooth Talk (1985), as a Tennessee firearms expert in Shooter (2007), and as General John Bell Hood in In the Electric Mist (2009).

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: captain.

Also on the record

1. In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked him No.
2. 22 on its list of 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time.

Other inductees with this card

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• Alec John Such — 2018 Performers with Bon Jovi
• Bob Weir — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• Chris Wood — 2004 Performers with Traffic
• Colin Blunstone — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
• Cordell Mosson — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Cornell Gunter — 1987 Performers with The Coasters
• Dee Dee Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
• Dickey Betts — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• Don Henley — 1998 Performers with Eagles
• Eddie Jobson — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
• Eric Clapton — 1992 Performers with The Yardbirds; 1993 Performers with Cream; 2000 Performers
• 13 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Levon Helm's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. May 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Levon Helm's dates come from?

Birth date 1940-05-26 is the day-precision date on Levon Helm's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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