Beloved outlaw country music has died. Here’s what we know

Alabama Life & CultureLevi Herman has died. Getty ImagesBy Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.comBeloved outlaw country musician Levi Herman has died.His fellow musicians, Dallas Moore and Zac Kellum, were among those sharing the news.“RIP brother Levi Herman,” Kellum wrote on Facebook Monday.“R.I.P. Levi Herman,” Moore wrote on Facebook. “Godspeed Old Friend. Live forever…”A cause of death has not been reported, but Herman had been battling cancer, according to several posts on his social media account.“So I had my ct scan today and things are looking pretty good,” Herman wrote in October. “The tumor load is officially gone for now and I just have the lesions on my liver to deal with now. Looks like my organs are getting back into place and my intestines are getting back into shape. My appetite is better than it has been in a long time and I am starting to feel like myself again.”He wrote at the time that he was preparing to begin immunotherapy.Herman posted on Facebook Aug. 11, thanking everyone for their support and expressing a desire to perform again.“I am not giving up,” he wrote. “Me and stumpy are trying to devise a way to set something up for a little tour. It might be right away, but I have serious ways to do this. “I seriously am going to try and make this little run work somehow,” he added. “I have been singing and plucking around which is feeling good.”Herman was a native of Alberta, Canada who developed a local following there. He also performed in the United States, opening up for Moore.“Heard through the grapevine that my friend and brother Levi Herman has passed away after a long battle with cancer,” musician Peter Mucott wrote on Facebook. “Levi was a cool cat and we did a bunch of shows here in Tennessee. We would talk on the phone a lot when he was on the road; he was out there playing anywhere, anytime for years. We exchanged some texts a couple weeks ago about getting together again. Gonna miss him. Rest easy my brother.”“We lost a genuinely good soul in our friend Levi Herman,” musician Brandi Colt wrote on Facebook. “Levi was the kind of person who stood firmly for what he believed and for the people he believed in. If he told you he was going to do something, you could trust that he meant it. That kind of genuine character is rare. We had a couple of fun runs Stumpy Joe and Farney a while back, and we had talked about trying to do another one. Like life sometimes does, time got away from us and it kept getting pushed to the back burner. I sure wish we’d gotten the chance. “Levi will be deeply missed and remembered by so many of us,” she added. “He left his mark on the people who knew him, and that matters. He also left us some music. A few years ago, Andrew had the privilege of recording some of his music, and we’d love for you to honor our friend by giving it a listen and streaming his songs. Rest easy, Levi. We’ll remember you.”Brian Linder is the trending editor at PennLive.com. He has more than 20 years of experience working for newspapers first in South Carolina, then Daytona Beach, Florida and now in Pennsylvania. Linder spent...