Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - 45 RPM

[GuyinCa]

I think this was the better version of the song, Joan did a wonderful job. Like other people here were saying, hearing it on the old 45's wow great memories. I use to have music on 8-track tapes, pity the player had the bad habit of eating them.

[MrBrigantesemore]

Brigante se more it is same old song in Italian way after the unification in 1861. South inhabitants of Italy suffered famine rape and economic destruction. Some people defended they home and were called bandits (briganti in Italian) Bandits were defeated definitively in 1890. South of Italy was totally destroyed and after that there was the emigration phenomenon.and the exportation of mafia unfortunately . And in our country we are fighting until now with this phenomenon.

[sarsoun]

anybody got Joan Baez doing "Got A Dog Named Blue?

[douglaz74]

Most Southeners did not own slaves and felt they were protecting their homes. The South suffered the most in the war and therefore left bitter. I hold the tiny Southern Plantation Class responsible for the death and destruction. They knew slavery was dying but stubbornly tried to keep the moral evil alive. When I look at the pictures of the destroyed Plantions they reaped what they sowed.

[douglaz74]

State rights? What where the Southern States so upset as to invoke States Rights? What angered the Southern Plantation Class, which was the tiny portion of Southern Society, was that Lincoln was going to prevent Slavery in the West. That angered the Southern Plantation class that viewed it as limitation on their Particular Institution. The Southern Plantation Class was in total denial that slavery was dying. 

[patriotjeff80]

love the crackle of a record player

[WABCRADIO77]

It's the way it should be!

[VrgniaMailman]

@WABCRADIO77 You have an amazing percentage, WABC. Less than 1/2 of 1%.Some duck listened to it an didn't like it. Oops, not a duck, but a loon.

[thelazyboydj]

@patriotjeff80 yup nothing like listening to the real thing!

[akapaddyobrien2]

@patriotjeff80 Isnt that something...the crackling sound, how we can miss something as simple as that ....bring back the 60's and 70's

[ppetal1]

You vinyl militant. Beautiful.

[shadowheart52]

How I miss doing that, putting the needle on the record. Watching it spin, listening to it, even smelling it. It was a complete experience. And when it was done, pick it up and start all over again. 

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

I still love this song.

George Vreeland Hill

[johnohconnor]

Great song. Tks

[56bluegold]

Very Good song !

[tanzdiele]

Das sind die Originale, die Du immer in der TANZdiele - " Zu GEZENDORFF " hören kannst - komm` mal vorbei und genieße..............

[24hoursdelemans]

@tanzdiele die Platte will ich ham xD wie viel willst dafür ^^

[RobertaSamuels63]

This song was voted the 465th best song from "Rolling Stone." It should give everyone goose bumps--it is sad--Dixie was a way of life until then. And the Civil War tore the country in half!

[kenwayne96]

There's something about this song that touches something deep in my soul. I don't what it is. I get tears in my eyes. I get goosebumbs on my arms. It's a powerful song.

[VrgniaMailman]

@kenwayne96 Superb comment, kenw. I think it provokes such a deep-seated response because it sings about such a crucial time in American history. And the devastating effects of civil war. Brings it home to the family level. But as I have learned about many big tragedies that occur in life, sometimes a great good comes out of them. Civil War? A unified nation, with the (practical) end of slavery. Sept. 11? Much better airline security, and the knowledge of who are enemies are/were.

[kenwayne96]

@VrgniaMailman - Thank you for your response. I think this song has a spiritual ambiance to it. It reminds me of the Pentecostal revival meetings I use to attend with my Grandmother when I was a little boy. It reminds me of the singing, the shouting and speaking in tonques. Some of the words of this song are powerful though. Phrases like "there Goes Robert E. Lee." and "he was just 16, proud and brave, but a yankee laid him in his grave." powerful, awsome song.

[gray19801]

@VrgniaMailman The Civil War was much more than slavery which only became an issue in 1862 mainly to keep Enlgand from siding with the Confederacy as Lincoln would have kept it and let it die on its own. The Civil War may have solved some problems but it also exposed other issues that still plague the Union to this day.

[VrgniaMailman]

@gray19801 I agree completely about Civil War being much more than (about) slavery. States' rights -- and especially the northern states treating the southern states unfairly in the (at least) 20 years before the C.W. -- was one of the most important. And even tho' my nickname might indicate otherwise, I was born and raised in Mass. But rather than the Civil War exposing some issues, I would say that Reconstruction and Carpetbaggers were what caused biggest post-war friction (more)

[VrgniaMailman]

@gray19801 (Continuation) I feel very strongly that if Abraham Lincoln had not been assassinated, he would have done everything in his power to heal the nation after the war as much as possible. Instead, many of the post-war actions taken by the federal government were designed to inflict revenge on the South. From my point-of-view, John Wilkes Booth did a lot to CREATE an atmosphere that led to northern revenge and thus HURT the South, rather than to help the South.

[gray19801]

@VrgniaMailman I agree on that as the Radical Republicans didnt want a smooth transistion they wanted to punish in the extreme. Radical Republicans were the 1860s NeoCons of today if you may. I agree with you on everything in this comment but as I said the Radicals were waiting for something to happen and as Rhamn Emmanuel said Never let a crisis go to wase. Aint politics in any time great!

[LightshipChaplain]

@VrgniaMailman I agree about your statement on Lincoln, as I believe he was truly a man of God.

[stlcards9000]

It pisses me off when she sings "till so much cavalry came" but besides that it's not bad.

[rezlerken3]

Andersonville and the camps us Brits in Meta Zulu .South Africa built in the Beor war! an Everton song goes! " And if you Know you History "and if your? Liverpool The Spion Kop !Read most things about the civil war lived in Hendersonville NC for a while! no "Red White and Blue"? only "Old Dixie" out side peoples houses At least you can fly flags !in this country you need planning permission?

[GloriousMaisie]

I first heard this song many years ago - a stranger in a strange country who had left everything because of civil unrest - I thought her voice was beautiful and the song was a lament - and still do

[z250B]

What a great voice!!

[bakednfried]

shivers

[solsticecelt1]

Remember this in the charts, great artist, great song.

[Thadesgal]

Joan Baez is anti-war. She doesn't attend antiwar rallies. She attends peace rallies. Man!

[shadrack47]

It's a good song one of my favorite's

[tomnanD3]

It's a song of history...it's a lament really. It was written by a Canadian by the way.

[usofa2012]

This should be Alabama's state song!

[dukenukem4lifeyo123]

Just because the song might be pro-south does not me she was pro-south herself.

[93931245]

You people on here who say that the song is NOT pro-south: you know more than the writer of the song? The writer at the time said that it was a pro-south song. The singer Joan B. stated that she believed it to be a pro=south song. If this song is not pro-south, then the baby boomers didn't make drugs a rite of passage.

[tanzdiele]

Ein Fixstarter in unserem Programm........

TANZdiele - " Zu GEZENDORFF "

Die DISCO - Alternative !!!

[fmajestic]

It's a kickbutt song regardless of what it's about. If it had different words it would still be cool.

[lenvis64]

wow, really could not beleive,a beautiful ani-civil war tune like this can stir up north ,-,south emotions again..or still ,146 years later?

[09MrAcer]

finally, what i wanted, tnx

[scotnick59]

a voice like an angel!

[MrOrionfan]

@scotnick59 Truly is the voice of an angel!! I heard this when I was 8 or so on the way to Charlotte, NC and loved it ever since!! I thought it was a young boy singing since she said "Virgil" was her name.

[93931245]

Joan Baez herself has called this a pro-south song. The comments about it being an anti-war song is rubbish that anybody can see through, which is why the statement has to be made so much. The baby boomers think that if something is said enough, it becomes true. The song and it's popularity at the time show the irony of the boomer generation: Say one thing, do another. From a sociological they won't look so good, like it or not.

[JS500Y]

@93931245 Well there is also the fact that she didn't wright the song so....

[farkennel1]

love

[kenwayne96]

This is joan Baez at her best. This song gives me chills.

[dukenukem4lifeyo123]

0:22 song starts

[olehippy13]

classic Joan Baez......I salute her and this song.....one of my all time favorites.

keep smilin,

olehippy13

former vietnam medic

[jameshodgetts1997]

Do you mind me asking, what cartridge do you have?

[DustinThePooper]

0:21 to start the song.

Thumb this comment up, and thumb down the second repeat comment in highest rated comments, so that people can skip forward.

[MsTani68]

Damn...u ALL Crazy ...are we talking bout a Song ?!

[farkennel1]

this is this

[Alexiajohnson101]

Its just a song. You all are stupid. Maybe its pro south, maybe its pro north, maybe its anti war. WHO GIVES A DAMN? The way I see it, the past is the past, we move on, instead of fighting about it. Personally I am an independent, as I think for myself. I have conservative and Liberal views. But do those come to play in a song? No, its just a song guys. You wouldn't of clicked on it unless you liked Joan. Lets all just enjoy the song and stop bickering. Peace.

[brian6078]

@Alexiajohnson101 - I like Joan Baez,she has a beautiful voice.These comments prove this song is everything and more that a artist can hope for.If it gets a positive or a negative reaction it is a success;anything in between the two is nothing more than average..This songs gets both positive and negative reactions.

[whately47]

YOu wouldn't understand it anyway. Just go eat some possum or something...

[whately47]

FUck you too Mustang...you old hick

[whately47]

yuck

[1967mustanggta]

@whately47 whats your problem? Just enjoy the God Damn song and shut the fuck up! This isn't history class. And no one is running for public office here with this as their theme song.

Geez - Fuck OFF

And you too danieldrums9 - You don't have shit to say - You could at least say it sounds like a leftist lesbian since the lyrics are actually for a guy.

Why can't a classic just be a classic of its era and be enjoyed as such

Why you all here for anyway?

[whately47]

sounds like clashfan need medication and or sedation. He must be a southerner.

[36clashfan77]

@danieldrums9 I would make a witty comment implying your a moron, however, since that was the first comment I got since google changed the homepage I have finally been able to find where they have moved the message box for the homepage, so thank you.

[87cadillachearse]

Good God. The south was well within their rights to do what they did. If you retarded liberals would step outside your fucking box and quit kissing all of the asses that pass your way, you might see. The white man did not enslave the black man without the help of the black man.

[nutbagbrew102]

@87cadillachearse 10 bucks says the leftist dont even know the confederats had almost a division of black men fighting agaist the union army - and not one black defected !! they hate this fact and have wiped it out of the history books - how shameful -

[sammirule]

@87cadillachearse

you're so right, black people did help enslaves themselves. They really did ask to be kidnapped from their native country and kept in disgusting conditions on boats and taken over to America so they could serve the white man and be made to work like dogs, be beaten up, raped and mistrusted. thanks for clearing that point up

[TheDowntownchick]

i just like the song.

[farkennel1]

good work dude

[farkennel1]

this is this..love.....

[maxmcmann]

It's interesting to find passions still stir about a tragic war that took decades for our leaders to mislead and miscalculate the devastation of a vast region of America. Southern leaders convinced a vastly outnumbered people that its agricultural-based economy would prevail by sheer skill, bravery and God.

[maxmcmann]

(cont from above) My ancestors were all Southerners who arrived long before the Revolutionary War. All had strong pioneer Patriot's blood tempered with a fierce loyalty to their home states and a premium value for independence from any centralized government.

[maxmcmann]

(cont from above) Southerners abhor anyone or entity telling us what to do. Loyalty was to your home state, but most had deep roots across the South as their families migrated from Virginia to the south and west. Consequently, demand for a weak central govt and each states' right to self-govern was part of the CSA's undoing. Slavery was the emotional sell to Northerners to garner support from its people. Of course, money and power were the real reasons for lawmakers to hurl toward civil war.

[maxmcmann]

(cont from above) While most Southerners won't argue against the preservation of the US, we have immense pride in our heritage of a brave people who fought for their land, family, way of life, prosperity, independence-- their freedom. Indeed, the disastrous effect of the war on the South and the subsequent years of punishment were keenly evident throughout most of the 20th century and arguably even today. We now must enjoy our heritage in private, as its vilification is now complete.

[geargemartin]

@maxmcmann HEAR HEAR! Very profound and well said. Thank you.

[citizenbfk]

QUOTE FROM SONG: "I swear by the blood beneath my feet...."

[iandragon]

the band and joan baez ...ummmmmm i don,t know which one is better ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm they both great ok ?

[TheCburns5]

I love this song. I don't know how anyone could think this song is anything but anti war...........

[FlatPelican]

@pinewood189

What?

[KlineK14]

can i hve tht record please

[zappasmoon]

kinda like my folks who died because of this "civil war?" but you know what? im the only rebel whos accepted the fact that this was far beyond my birth (1987) and i accept the fact that my state will never recieve proper accomodations for this war! they called us border ruffians! and partisan rangers! and outlaws! and dag gum, we wore grey! we fought hard! we had no thanks, or proper ceremony from Lee and his army, CSA, MO! where we at as the 12th star state huh? wheres our price, and our james!

[Forgedinflam]

@zappasmoon dag gum

[davem12758]

THE ORIGINAL CUT,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,THANK YOU

[Zodiakus85]

also die Qualität ist echt TOP!!! total GEIL sowas auf YT zu finden.

[JeniDiver]

Thank you!! Thank you! I have been looking for the original version. I really appreciate your submitting this for our pleasure. Sure, there are a lot of other great versions out there but when the mind takes a trip down memory lane it wants to hear the one that made the memory.

[marcelcruzeiro]

How did you capture this good quality?

[missingremote]

Yet sounds better than her CD that i never bought

[paladin712]

love this song

[DanielSimpsonDayye]

Long live the South.

[36clashfan77]

@DanielSimpsonDayye you're missing the point of the song, its not pro south, it rather anti-war.

[DanielSimpsonDayye]

@36clashfan77 I didn't miss the point at all, I love this song, I'm pro south.

[36clashfan77]

@DanielSimpsonDayye the song isn't pro-south, it's anti war, telling the tale of orindary southerners who suffered from the war.

[DanielSimpsonDayye]

@36clashfan77 YES,I know, I said I'm pro south ,not the song, understand?

[JohnnyGuitar79]

@36clashfan77 i believe its both pro south and anti war

[poweredbyvlad]

@36clashfan77 It's pro-peace

[amysita77]

@36clashfan77 Don't bother. The rednecks will never get it.

[westchesterny]

@amysita77 what? the "rednecks" who ACTUALLY were there, and their families were there, and have a real history of the war in their own (real) family oral traditions, and had their land taken, and had their land burned, and had their votes taken away, and had to swear bizarre loyalty oaths to "vote", and have pictures from the war still in their homes, and so on...those "rednecks?" lol... "clash fan." lmao.

[nutbagbrew102]

@westchesterny do you really know what the history of a "Red Neck" is - well look it up - it was about fighting for the rights of the working man long after the civil war - get it!!! their wasnt any rednecks in the civil war and if you dont know that its because your stupid or a moron or both - the south was beat to death after president linclon was killed - lincoln wanted to north to make peace with the south instead they almost wiped it competely out - thats why the south hate yankees -

[westchesterny]

@nutbagbrew102 Lol, I'd know very well what it is. And there are different ideas about the origin of the term. And yes, either the redneck from sunburn, or the wearing of bandanas. No, the people who fought the civil war are degraded as rednecks by the descendants of the Northern army and the now northeast establishment, the warfare-welfare state they created, etc.

[nutbagbrew102]

@westchesterny YOU ARE SO WRONG AND NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL LADY OR DUDE - IM NOT GOING TO TEACH YOU - YOU WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE REAL HISTORY BOOKS - THERE WERE NO "REDNECKS" IN THE CIVIL WAR AND I HAVE THE FACTS AND YOU DONT - FROM WHAT YOURE SAYING ANYONE IN EITHER ARMY WEARING A RED BANDANA ARE "REDNECKS" ? LOOK - I WILL GIVE YOU A HINT "COAL MINE WORKERS" --- COMEBACK WITH FACTS AND NOT YOUR COMMUNIST PROFESSORS VIEWS ON AMERICAN HISTORY -

[1QuikTransAm]

@amysita77 Eat shit you ghetto trash bitch

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

i saw this on her live a&m album and it rocked

[J4ck410P3]

she nailed it, my favorite baez song. sit back close your eyes and you can see it. long live the southern wind...

[MutantBuzzard]

1 o' our all time favirot's brings tears and chills

[purpleiris99]

Love this song and the sound is great. Makes me go back in time

[farkennel1]

cannot love this tune too much....fark in love

[VrgniaMailman]

Good ol' Joan Baez is pitching a shutout!! {Zero people have not liked it :>) }. Was she one of the pitchers for the San Francisco Giants in the World Series ??

[farkennel1]

what a fucking killer tune...good work dude

[Hirsute63]

I seem to have developed a stutter to go with the loss of hearing... lol!

[Hirsute63]

And they told us to destroy our vinyl....! Is my hearing going or is this as ggood a sound qquality as CD? I-Pod...?

[ReelsOnWheels88]

@Hirsute63 better man, vinyl will always sound better than digital.

[ginkline]

you could have cut hte 24 first seconds of the video...

[xKOOMIKEx]

Back when music was music.

[MrFBCBSALES]

Have not heard this is so long! Thanks for posting it. Awesome song indeed!!!! Do you have City of New Orleans?

[TheGreentrails]

Lincoln was our greatest and none will ever match him.

[kimfort]

@theshavenyak it was the worse war yet of Americans, European Americans, that we've had. Seems like Lincoln didn't want the natiion to be like Europe yet he called a war that is to say started a war like a European. He made himself a coward and ditator for his own means. Sorry to Lincoln. His wife went crazy, son died early and never left any sons as a lineage. He never let a lot of other men do the same.

[DBMalone]

@kimfort

"Seems like Lincoln didn't want the natiion to be like Europe yet he called a war that is to say started a war like a European."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the first shot fired by Confederate General P.G.T. Beaureguard on Fort Sumter? Doesn't sound like Lincoln started the war to me. The blame should be properly be placed on South Carolina when they seceeded from the union on December 12, 1861. That's really what got the ball rolling, IMHO.

[kimfort]

@DBMalone Where are you from and where did you grow up?

[DBMalone]

@kimfort

I live in upstate NY and grew up in Massachusetts, but what does that matter? History is history. I should add that my father is from Texas and that my family has roots in Mississippi... I do have southern roots.

[kimfort]

@DBMalone Then you should know the devasation that was perpetuated by the war in the South. I was born in Fort Worth but grew up in PIttsburgh PA. You say Miss. as well. Much closer to the devastation. I got tired of defending my parents Southern accent "up north" for something their history got caught up in. I have relatives on both sides of that useless war.

You grew up in Mass? Makes sense to me know. You should ask "what does that matter?" 

[DBMalone]

@kimfort

The damage in the south, especially GA and the Shenandoah Valley (I knew you'd head for that argument), regrettably happened. But there were reasons for it. Those two regions fed rebel armies... especially the Army of Northern Virginia. What did you expect the north to do... help them harvest their crops? An army survives on beans and bulltets. Take a way the beans and you go a long way in defeating the enemy and ending the war. Most of that damage was done for a reason.

[DBMalone]

@kimfort

BTW... I find your comment on my native state interesting. If you're thinking that I'm a democrat, you're making an wrong assumption (as I thought you would). Believe it or not, people with different political philosophies live in different states.

[cooltooth112]

@DBMalone I've lived in the south all my 55 years, Memphis, TN, and like most of the rebel fighters, they were poor just like my family. There is one point of view that is very important about the Civil War; It's fortunate we lost. Where would we be if we had won that war? It was not destined to be. It was just unfortunate it was fought in the first place. But, it was just a part of Manifest Destiny and had to be settled to keep our nation alive.

[NormanVail]

cousins killed cousins, brothers killed brothers, sons killed fathers and fathers killed sons. It was the worst war ever fought in the history of all mankind...

[Kokoots]

@NormanVail Not forgetting two world wars, where millions died?

[VrgniaMailman]

I was never a Joan Baez fan, but she sure was terrific in this fabulous song!! Wonderful lyrics, too. "Virgil, quick come see. There goes the Robert E. Lee ..." "Well, he was just 18, proud and brave ... but a Yankee laid him in his grave. I swear by the blood below my feet, you can't raise a Cain back up when it's in the field ...."

[MrJakko22]

yea clever

[GaussTruth]

Also, my compliments to the person who put this vid up. Excellent with the showing of the label of the 45 , then with the placing of it on the turntable.

[GaussTruth]

Very emotional and evocative of that war some one hundred and fifty years ago.

Still stands as a testament of the people of that era that still rings true through the people of this time now .

[PhunkyNun]

Such a beautiful voice.

I'm British, and when I was a teenager this song taught me all I needed to know about the American Civil War.

[fansmom1]

I actually had this 45!! bought it I think when I was a jr in high school!! oh the memories!!

[ReelsOnWheels88]

did she write this song or did robbie robertson?

[sugaree70]

@ReelsOnWheels88 Robbie Robertson. Joan does mess up the lyrics a little here. It's still a great version.

[dan65251]

@ReelsOnWheels88  Robbie

[TheBunnyist]

@ReelsOnWheels88 Robbie Robertson is the author of this tune

[colins27]

nice upload bro, joan is a true musician

[zman291977]

Nice clean copy!

[jasonlava]

Story songs for the win!

[bythebytheway]

Good to hear one the ol' Great Ones ! Thanks.