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- The Last Waltz - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: Levon Helm leads The Band through a passionate take of the Civil War-inspired song, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
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FILM DESCRIPTION:
Seventeen years after joining forces as the backing band for rockabilly cult hero Ronnie Hawkins, Canadian roots rockers The Band call it quits with a lavish farewell show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Nov. 25, 1976. Filmed by Martin Scorsese, this documentary features standout performances by rock legends such as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell and Muddy Waters, as well as interviews tracing the group's history and discussing road life.
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Cast: Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson
Director: Martin Scorsese
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This whole concert is easily one of the greatest live performances in the history of music
Joni doing "Coyote" with the guys was soooooo next level!
Without question.
Changed my whole life watching the last waltz fell in love with music
Definitely
He was wasted that night.. lol
I can't listen to the studio version anymore after hearing this.
Me neither!
Alex P same! This is so powerful.
I agree. The same with The Weight.
Amen to that
I feel the same way about all the songs in this film
One of the best performances by a drummer ever--period. Levon sang his heart out in this ballad and it showed.
And did it effortlessly. A true legend
The best. Could listen to Levon sing this all night long
Excellent
I cant judge that. What do u look at?
It's a pity he turned sour at the end
I can honestly say that The Last Waltz changed my life. When I first saw it, I came out of the theatre a different person. All these years later the music is still as relevant as it was then. I recently read Robbie Robertson's book, Testimony. One of the best, if not the best Rock n Roll autobiographies of all time. What an adventure!! I learned of Robbie's passing today and it has shocked and saddened me greatly. Another of my true heroes gone from this human journey of ours. Go in peace friend and may your spirit continue to travel.
Moving tribute, this is!😢❤😢
Ruined my life also!! LOL In a really great way
I'm an old man and it breaks my heart to see my heroes slowly dying away.
@@TonyBurke-nq5ibmy brother I feel the same way, I get emotional hearing these beautiful renditions of songs of our youth. I just turned 71, and I'm awful sad . Peace and love be with you. ❤
I'm 21 years old and just watched it for the first time a month ago, it also changed my life. I've known of the band since I was born essentially but now that I'm actually listening to them there's no going back for me. I'm currently reading Testimony, Robbie's become a huge inspiration of mine. I hope him and the rest of the boys are jamming somewhere in the beyond.
Elton John once said a drummer should never sing unless his name is Levon Helm !!!
And wrote song about that called Levon.
he may have but Phil Collins did as well, as does the Corr sister (Caroline) and both do very well.
👍🏻👍🏻
David McKee, He really said that?
I thought Topper Headon had said this.
This song is a history lesson. Unfortunately, people in 2024 don't realize it.
Correct!
Or they think it’s a pro-confederate song😂
@@ponderingmonk525It’s not pro or anti-Confederate. It’s a song about how war is hell for the soldiers and civilians alike.
@@ponderingmonk525 Exactly. It's more like Virgil's Lament. He knows he's going down on the wrong side of history. Stubborn Old Man.
I am a Yankee, 49 years old and I am recently thinking this is one of the best songs I ever heard! Levon Helm, you are amazi ng and I am so sad we lost you too young.
The passionate soulful voice of Levon Helm. One of a kind.
Passionate voice of Mavis Staples
Once you think you got it figured out… you’re wrong…
We lost Robbie Robertson today - RIP Robbie. Canadian legend and icon.
I saw this in the theater in 1978; I was 16. This has influenced my musical taste my entire life. I was impressed then, and I still get chills when Levon sings.
I'm so jealous. I've loved The Band all these years, and I do indeed own the DVD, but Damn I wish I had seen this when it came out ✌🏼
I saw it on cable a couple years later on when I was about 10 or 11. Same with me. This one always stuck with me.
@@Liquidmice9 hug yourself 🤗 and know how lucky you were ❤️
Same with me, same age, saw it at a small college theater. It took many years to appreciate it all, but the Weight, Caravan, even Mystery Train were etched on my mind forever.
@@craigm1954 amazing isn't it, decades go by and these songs remain, and with UA-cam's help, they'll never die ❤️
That line "he was just 18 proud and brave but a..Yankie laid him in his grave" .....gets me every time
That is musical writing at its finest. Very melodic but the words come through like poetry.
Yes, also "... But they should never / Have taken the very best", which could be applied to most wars.
@@copperspartan1643 And they wonder why in the South for generations even up to this day have suspicion regarding Yankees.
A "Blue Belly" at that ...
@@free322001 Then why are Yankees so obsessed with trying to ban anything related to the Confederacy: statues, monuments, flags
If they really didn't care then how do you explain these actions which have been increasing since 2015
Levon Helm... You will live on!
You were not just a drummer...
You were an angel!
May you rest in peace!
People would chop wood for steamboats Leave it on the shores and a steamboat would come by and take the wood to burn in their boiler to power their engine. They would leave money for the wood on the wood pile not a lot of money as this song say's. The Robert E Lee was a famous steamboat that won a race against another famous steamboat The Natchez in New Orleans. Robbie dug up this history and added it to this great song genius. RIP Robbie.
Wow, thanks for that info!!!
@@none7114 Well I got the info from Wikipedia But the song kind of say's it There goes "the" Robert E Lee not there goes Robert E Lee?
Thanks for that info, I used to belt that song out when I was a little girl in Ireland, and I didn’t know what that meant regarding ‘ chopping wood’ now I know. Great band, real music💙
Fascinating. I believe that “the money’s no good” refers to Confederate (CSA) currency, which was not backed by gold, which became worthless when the Southern government fell.
Yeah Robbie must have looked up all this info in a library! because there wasn't any internet to help him out. And he wrote the song in Canada. How did writers get by without Wikipedia?
Robbie Robertson said this is the best he ever saw Levon Helms ever perform this. Leon had told him he'd bring his A game and boy did he ever!!!
You get the feeling that it is the last time they are ever going to play it and they better make it count.
Respect to Robbie Robertson, passed on at 80 years of age -- composer of many classic tunes (like this one), performed beautifully by he and the rest of the boys in The Band.
From a unique place, Robbie is simply a genius for putting this together in the perspective that is totally unbiased, and from the "common" mans perspective after every war and the heart wrenching emotional evocation is absolutely unmatched.
"they should never have taken the very best..."
Critic John Carrol wrote that "Levon Helm is the ONLY drummer that can make you cry." How true. RIP
Amazing, can't even describe in words...
Rest in peace Robbie.
I still get chills when I hear them RIP my beautiful voices can’t wait to see you all jam again in Heaven I know you all are there🙏❤️❤️❤️
Screw Robbie
So soulful that even the Yankees are weeping.
Amen from this Yankee, brother
I guess black folks aren't weeping.
Levon Helm is the voice of America. No other vocalist in history captures this country's earthiness, complexity and ambiguity like he did. God bless him.
True. But Doug Sahm comes close.
Well Said !!!
J.R. Cash would look a word with you. No other voice looms over the entire American experience the way Cash's immense body of work does. Paupers and prisoners to Presidents, the downtrodden to the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street in downtown NYC, simple common folk to celebrities and heroes: they all hear themselves and their stories in his songs. Red and yellow, black and white, they all accept him as one of their own. From "Hey Porter" to "Hurt", over six decades he constantly pushed the boundaries of multiple genres of American music. No other artist is a member of the Country Music HOF, the Rock & Roll HOF, and the Songwriter's HOF.
Levon is head and shoulders above the vast majority of the cream of the crop of American musicians, but Cash will always be not only The Man in Black, he's The Man. Even Dylan was in awe of Cash the first time they met at Newport in the early 1960s. Kristofferson, probably the most literary songwriter to ever work in Nashville, considered Cash his mentor and equal. No one, not even Elvis Presley or Aretha Franklin or Sinatra or Brother Ray filled a room with his mere presence the way Cash did. All it took was for him to step up to a microphone and say, "Hello... I'm Johnny Cash" and the air was charged with an electricity⚡in a way no other could bring show after show after show for sixty years.
Absolutely, but how the hell does a Canadian write a song like this? RR captures more deep emotion in three stanzas than some historians achieved in three volumes. "You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat...."
@@raylauletti2004 Watch "NOT IN IT FOR MY HEALTH" and you'll have your answer.
Never saw a drummer pour out heart and soul the way Levon did here. Incredible performance.
Nobody sang this like Levon. Nobody. Magical.
Tsully Joan Baez
Levon was a beast. I have it on dvd, can't skip a single song when I put it on.
If you haven’t already, do read Levon’s autobiography, This Wheel’s on Fire.
No doubt about that
Noboby.🤩
Weren't they just the best ever? I have been on a binge since hearing about Robbie and it is amazing how the songs hold up. Sheer timeless artistry.
RIP Robbie Robertson. This was probably one of the best songs he wrote.
He says he wrote it, but I have a hard time believing he wrote this song all on his own.
A guy from Canada wrote this? yea right. He stole writing credits from the other band members.
@@keithm9337 What a weird and ignorant accusation
@@keithm9337the whole band said he wrote it😅
@@keithm9337man this is a dumb comment
@@brandonluft5153 The dumb comment is the one from the person (you) who isn't capable of adding anything intelligent to the conversation other than name calling. My wife's third grade class does that same thing.
Levon is the best drummer/vocalist ever. Don Henley wishes he could do both as well as Levon
And he could act, as well. Loved his brief stint in Coal Miners Daughter.
One of the greatest songs ever written and performed.
great tune ...the p c mob are a bunch of fuckwits
this is about the common man being forced to fight for something they don't understand. Not glorifying slavery
@smith western Historically, yes but this song does not mention slavery. The line: "He was just 18, proud and brave..." proves Frank James Bonarrigo's assessment is correct.
Robbie wrote the song as a mini movie to tell a story from a point of view from the era and as a song that Levon could sing better than anyone else. Levon's experiences, as a southerner, were very often the inspiration for their songs. None of the band members were pro slavery and they ALL embraced the culture and music of African Americans from the south.
@@fatgrl1935 smith western and frank james are both right, in my opinion. remember, the brother "took a rebel stand."
@smith western they did know why they were fighting, and slavery had nothing to do with it
People faught because the north was burning down every city during the war and the common man can’t eat when his home is in ruin, the north act likes they were saving the union when they just beat down the south, they weren’t just fighting the confederate military, they were burning down cities and messing up rail road tracks
Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need
And you leave the rest
But they should never
Have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Kane back up
When he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Thank you...
I'm a Pennsylvania man but this song rips emotion out of me. Doesn't matter what war it is the poor always go and fight for their homelands and politics mean nothing.
Because they have nothing else. All they ask for is a place, and they'll kill for it.
@googleisorwellian
Understood. We could debate why the war was started but I think the song is from the perspective of an average southern farmer. Not a plantation owner or of the upper class.
@googleisorwellian - How did the "North pick [ed] a fight?" 🍿
Perfectly put.
戦争をしてはいけない
Levon Helm sang and played with honesty and conviction. What a talent. "The Band" forever.
You bet!! He also was cast in The Right Stuff and was that film's narrator.
Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Have you obtained your free CD / The Mark of the Beast ???????
@@jimhirsch4482 His brief appearance in The Shooter was the best part of the movie.
The single best individual performance by any drummer. The passion in that song is on a different level. I adore it. Levon's best performance. He gave everything for us in that song
Loved your work, Robbie. If there's a rock and roll heaven, it's your turn for a solo. Try not to fight with Levon.
you watch this..no..LISTEN..and then..tell me anything current even comes a tiny bit close in terms of quality, spirit or meaningful..yeah, I know the answer already!
R.I.P. Robbie, such a great song writer and great musician, a rock legend. Your music lives on.....thank you for your music.
This is the best performance of any song ever in my view. I think some neither understand nor listen to the lyrics. They just hear Richmond, Lee, and Yankee then conclude it's pro slavery, which it's not. It's an anti war ballad told from the perspective of a vanquished people. This version brings me to tears.
It's also nice how it commemorates General Stoneman. He was a hammer on the rebel filth and their twisted, evil cause.
I think this the best live performance I've ever seen.
I so agree! It's a song of loss, that cuts all the way through the soul. It's not pro anything. Just loss.
@@vangroover1903 what's wrong van you're chief sell your ancestors for babbles and trinkets cheer up mate you talk like no slavery in the north 🇮🇪🏴🙏🏻🙏🏻🍉🍉🐖🐖🍌🍌🍌💚💚💚
interestingly, written by a Canadian
This should have about a billion views by now. Essential to any living being. Definition of vocal authenticity right here. Take note, young lads.
Robbie and Levon are now reunited.
Robbie learned in the flash of light that he couldn’t take that royalty money with him. RIP
It's 2023, and I still can't think of any other movie that was so classic about any band, especially, The Band in The Last Waltz.
Came here to listen because Robbie Robertson died. What a classic, memorable song. I wish I could have seen them live.
This is what real musicians do, Levons in a league of his own, the passion in his voice, no superlative covers how good the man was, real music. Nuff said.
This song feels so much like it is a passed down from father to son, a real life experience, it oozes authentic history.
No doubt it will be forbidden soon. It is so personal it seems the 'ordinary folk' experience of a tragic war.
Say what you want about Levon...when he sat down behind that drum kit, he was in a league of his own.
RIP Robbie Robertson. Its another sad day for music
Rip Levon, one of the Greatest of all time ❤
I have heard this so many times and I still get the chills! Levon sang his whole heart out!❤❤
me too
Good god, what a song and what a voice! We'll never hear music as good as this again.
So true brother, I remember this when it came out, I was in high school. The saddest thing about being a millennial is their complete lack of good music.
@@shankster3578 You have never heard Quevo then I take it.
Just trollin. lol
great job
Oh and Robbie Robertson is the spit of a young Duncan Ferguson (Scottish footballer)
This would be the concert I would have wanted to see above any.
For me it’s this or Stop Making Sense
With Bob Dylan and Dr. John too. Insane.
Braden White And Ronnie Hawkins for good measure
HamiltonRb hey man don’t forget Neil young
Joni and Van the Man;)
Another masterpiece from the best band ever, Robbie is a generational musical icon, jamming with Levon in rock heaven.
Richard and Rick, as well
My GOD what a powerful song and performance!!!
This is Levon's song, I agree with that. However, Rick can still be heard harmonizing, his voice is so unique. Just love him.
And Manuel's falsetto at the end. It's breathtakingly beautiful.
@@svenjansen2134 The Band had 3 great singers, it is hard to elevate one of the others. They way I see it, Robbie often wrote a song with a certain singer in mind. However, it wasn't set in stone, he wrote Stage Fright with Richard in mind, then felt it was better suited to Rick's nervous energy, and if you have watched Rick singing it in The Last Waltz you will know he was right. RIchard was perfect for "The shape I'm in", and of course Levon was perfect on "Up on Cripple Creek, and Dixie.
Richard Manuel ignored in the back ground..... love him and of course *Rick Danko*
All premature deaths are sad but Richard Manuel's is especially heartbreaking. Alcoholism and addiction and suicide sucks
Not sure he was ignored as such. Might have been he was stoned or drunk as much as I love this singing he had serious alochol and drug problems. They all did drugs, including Robbie, which he is very open about in this book Testimony, but Richard was a serious addict, just couldn't stop or moderate.
I am the Bluest Blue Yankee....this song is the only respectable memorial to the vanquished South. Find the Lyrics....this is no tale of the lost cause.
These are five musicians that just made magic and nobody could ever duplicate it they were the Band!!!!
I would like to thank my Dad for introducing me to the Band! The only way to play their music is LOUD!!
Tony C it’s my step fathers favorite band .. took me years to appreciate how amazing they were.
My dad...Vietnam vet from Kentucky MADE me watch this when I was 12...thought he was drunk and crazy....44 now still here
Well you’re not alone
My dad too!
THIS IS...........HOLY SHIT............FANTASTIC!!!!!!
*YEP*
Ya
That military style drumming near the end, where he's pounding away in double time as if in some parade... it just slays me every time.
Lyrics:
Virgil Caine is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, la, la, la, na, na
La la, na, na, la, la, la, la, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see
There goes the Robert E. Lee"
Now I don't mind choppin' wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need and you leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, la, la, la, na, na
La la, na, na, la, la, la, la, la"
Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, la, la, la, na, na
La la, na, na, la, la, la, la, la"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, la, la, la, na, na
La la, na, na, la, la, la, la, la"
Void Pxssive thanks. I have a hard time understanding words sometimes especially in songs
Ok I am being pedantic but I there are many mistakes in your lyrics. For example, in the chorus it is 'WHEN all the bells were ringing'. There are many more mistakes.
3Vimages False there are no errors, as these lyrics came from ‘The Band’ website themself...
@@xPxssive I gave you an example in the chorus, idiot. You typed ………..
AND the bells were ringing! ……
But the band sings
¨WHEN ALL the bells were ringing¨.
I don't care where you got the lyrics from …….. just play it and listen.
There are about 10 more mistakes in what you typed. Just listen while you read your words!
3Vimages they change lyrics slightly for live versions often
Absolutely masterpiece, I love the band, and such a sad story for all of them apart from Robbie, fair play to him also. He was the genius behind most of the songs, but always look at LH as the best performer
RIP the lost members of possibly the most underrated band in history
That's just the narrative RR put it. He who lives controls the narrative. The truth is the Band wrote all the songs together, and Robbie just went behind their backs to get publishing credits and all the royalties. Although he was talented, he is also a thief, a liar, a backstabber, and of poor character.
Underrated? I think you're right, considering their contribution as a whole. 1994 Hall of Fame inductees.
@@strangetwang3269 Why this hatred of Robbie? Every band has their Lennon/McCartney or Jagger/Richards, and every good songwriter gets input from their bandmates. Do you think Slash had no part in the shaping of November Rain as it was finally released? "I can do this here" or "Let's add a solo here" or whatever. The point about a band is that when the whole is more than the sum of their parts, magic can happen. Robbie was the songwriter/guitarist just as Levon was the drummer/vocalist and Danko was the bassist/vocalist. All played their parts very well. Ask Garth Hudson about it all.
No one in The Band claim the all wrote the songs together. Some did some writing, but it was Robbie who wrote the majority of the songs. Rick, Levon and especially Richard were to strung out on heroin and other drugs to be able to concentrate. I'm not making a judgement, and Robbie did drugs too, but not heroin.
Lemon Helms voice is what makes this song so great
Sum of the parts I say.
This voice and Levons passion is just unbelievable.
I'm a European, can't honestly get into the politics of it, or the poetic licence in the lyrics, whatever...
But the unbelievable delivery, the soul, the passion, the control, precision, in this performance is truly astonishing. Breathtaking.
I pray that this current wave of awakening consciousness doesn't take this song down with it.
We have had a questionable history around the World but wiping it all away isn't the answer either.
✌❤🙏🇨🇦
KEH
You're absolutely right. Considering that the Dixie Chicks just changed their name, I wouldn't be surprised. This song is such a classic, it would break my heart if it were banned.
@small wonder After seeing statues of Lincoln and Ulysses Grant being either damaged or outright destroyed recently, anything is possible. But go on and call me a bubblehead if it makes you happy. LOL
I agree. This song is about the hardships of the Average Southern Man- The Grunt. These is nothing in this song that endorses Racism or Slavery.
@@HoldenNY22 It's already happening, unfortunately. My group was going to do a cover of this song up in Wisconsin and they won't let us play it. People are to closed minded to see the big picture of history.
"questionable" lol
I don't know why this brings a tear to my eye. I always remember this song and growing up in central Texas.
Oddly enough I just discovered this song and even though I'm from Pennsylvania it does the same for me. I commented earlier that it "rips" emotion out of me.
Same for me growing up in SoCal in the 70s.
It brings a tear to your eye because you are a human being who recognizes when genius cuts to your soul.
Just think, he portrayed Loretta Lynn's father in "The Coat Miner's Daughter." Showed me how versatile he was.
Also portrayed Col. Jack Ridley and narrated "The Right Stuff"
Hey Ridley, got a stick of Beamans ? I’ll pay you back later.
That's right! Forgot about that
To this day Loretta said she can’t watch the scenes with him because he calls her Lo-retty just like her dad did. He also has the best line in the movie. When asked by Marty what do you call Blue grass, country & western, gospel, show tunes & blues all mixed together in the Delta? Without missing a beat he says “Rock & Roll” 😂🤘🏻
I’m sure Eric Clapton said in his biography that this song on that night is his favourite live performance.
It doesn't matter where tf you're from. This song is quite possibly one of the best songs: lyrically, melodically, instrumentally, every performed
I can't look at Danko without getting sad. Such a sweet soul.
I cry when I hear his voice, and Levon's too.
i love him when he spazzes with his own style on the weight.. :) i just got into the band and didn't know he passed too.. so sad...
Never had an argument not like other bands
I love his voice on It Makes No Difference. Tears your heart out.
And now Garth Hudson is the only one left...a truly great Band....
Love my southern culture and it's sad to see people ashamed of it, lots of young men died trying to defend their homes never really having a choice.
RIP Robbie -----Thank you for the music and memories.
Boston college 1970.
I was 14 years old and still the greatest concert of my life.
What? did the singer say to Levon.. at the end of this video.
And now Garth is the only one left.
This song epitomizes the impact of the Civil war on the common man; farmer, rancher, and anyone trying to survive those difficult times. If you can't understand that, then you are not a Southerner.
Amen.
I'm not a southerner, but I understand it completely and think southern pride is a great tradition, that should be kept at all cost, if you get my drift
@@RJ1999x Yeah, we get your drift, a-hole. Keep your dog whistle crap to yourself.
gnash64 oh snap
gnash64 and we get that you don’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your”, proving that your grammar isn’t any better than your history.
THIS IS GREATNESS!
This is the best song from the concert by The Band. Van Morrison was the standout guest
Richard Gouin Bob Dylan? Dr. John?
@@Gabagool93 van is better than both of them.
This is so great that I get goosebumps all over my body
Every. Time.
Ditto. Amazing.
Got it!
Robby researched and wrote this outstanding piece of music for the world to enjoy. In an unselfish decision, Robby handed the vocals over to Levon, the rest is history.
Robbie couldn't sing that's why.
The is absolutely my favorite version of the song. It’s incredible. Levon never sang it better.
And never sang it again. The story of this performance is one of rock's saddest but most genuine episodes.
Great song. Its part of our history Black and White If any one had the balls to play and sing this tune today they would be chastised and burned at the stake. Yes the Civil War was bad and the times were bad on both sides. But come on its old history get over it and let the songs ring out. No Im not a rebel I am a yankee but the tune is great. JMO
also, the majority of southerners did not own slaves. plenty of yankees wore clothing made of cotton grown in the south and smoked tobacco grown in the south.
@@dgarzaart2000 exactly
ROBBIE ROBERTSON (the guitar player) is from CANADA and wrote this song after seeing a CIVIL WAR picture in a magazine. Funny that a very NORTHERN fellow (CANADA) would write such an iconic SOUTHERN song.
They're all from Canada except for Helm, if I'm not mistaken.
Levon is from Arkansas, and the rest of the band is from Canada.
I mean...are there many iconic southern songs from southern authors?
@@GiacoC You ever heard of a little song called Sweet Home Alabama?
True but the talent and input from the the whole group made the song iconic! I always thought this was a Joni Mitchell song, but this is far better!
Civil War historians were amazed at the level of detail and passion Robbie Robertson put into this song .. almost like he had been there before. It's a big reason why it touches so many still to this day. We will never experience such talent and grace again. RIP Robbie, Levon and all ..
I'm a history teacher and I usually include this song in my section on the civil war. It's so touching and really makes the human experience of collective defeat accessible to kids, even when they're unsympathetic to the Southern cause.
One error though: Richmond fell in April.
@@klebersernik4141 still technically by May 10th
@@lostinclownworld On May 10th Davis was captured in Georgia. The city of Richmond fell on the 3rd of April. Those are the facts.
Just found out with surprise, that the members of "The Band" are mostly Canadian... except for Levon …. he's from Arkansas,.....
Read this wheels on fire
there all Canadian bar levon
The best Canadian band ever!
Why TF would you cut off the opening horns? Hacks.
Now it does not get any better then this my friends.
There's twice as much talent on that stage than in all of the music industry today... not that there's not monster talent out there it's just largely ignored. Sad
Here today for sad reasons.
Levon once sat in with a band I used to be in. We stood in a circle before the encore and he handed us all Levon Helm guitar picks and said "easy money. Easy money now." Magical. The guy was awesome.
they can not show-play this enough... tis a Clasicc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God bless The Band. One of the greatest performance groups to have ever existed!
My generation had Levon Helm, and today’s generation has gangster rap......how very very sad.
So it's Saturday February 22nd 20/20 and I'm sitting here in the silence and out of the Clear Blue Sky the words The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down came across my mind. I have my curtains open and I can see a bush and my next door neighbors trailer. I can hear the sounds of the trucks going down the highway and the trains taking off from the train station. And that's it oh yeah and three dogs laying around like hound dogs do and a chicken pot pie in the oven and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down on the radio. UA-cam that is. I don't know maybe there's something about the song that reminds me of trucks and trains and Hound dogs and chicken pot pie.LÖL
This song is like a story, I can picture it in my mind. IT always gives me the chills. ❤
Sure do miss that guy. Levon was epic.
one of the greatest concerts
Robert Petrie
A great double bill is The Last Waltz then Spinal Tap! Then Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps if you are still conscious!
Gordon: I have seen all three vids, in one night, and totally agree with you.
My favourite song by The Band.
Always loved my southern brothers 1 nation 1 blood i would die for you
what a beautiful song
I got to see them perform in the early 70s - best live band I ever saw, no nonsense, barely spoke to the audience, just one great song after another.
i'm so jealous that i missed all the great concerts...now a days i have no desire to spend the $$$ to see anyone...last concerts i saw were John Mellancamp Scarecrow tour and way before that Van Halen Diver down...i missed the 70's..i was in elementary school :(
Robbie Robertson said he wrote this song because he wanted to write a song that nobody could sing like Levon Helms. Boy did he succeed!!!
That's wrong. RR is a liar.
How do I put it........amazing
Yeah well, judging by the way people disregard hard proof and truthful information that goes against their causes these days, the pure fact that this marvelous song contains the word “Dixie” in it’s title and lyrics is enough for them to slander it’s point and distort it’s meaning.
In other words, if this song was a statue, it would have been pulled down and toppled over with a cheap tie down strap looted out of a burning Home Depot along with the rest of them.