The Last Waltz - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.mpg

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[Hugh JaQuaq]

Levon Helm was put on Earth to sing this song.

[Connor Whiskin]

I didn't know everybody here was a history professor, just sit back and enjoy the music. Sheesh.

[j6818]

He was really GREAT!!!!

[steve conn]

I like the camera fuck-up at 2:49

[steve conn]

'The Band were the only group that could be a warm-up act for Abraham Lincoln.'

This song reminded of that.

[carolann bagan]

when they tell you at the beginning of the movie to play this movie loud. they ain't flaming kidding. otherwise you can hear sweet diddly of what Robbie and Rick are saying.

[Dennis Schminke]

There goes 'the Robert E Lee'--steamboat named after him

[Thunkful2]

Just IMHO:

The song doesn't say that Lee was in Tenn; it says that Virgil's wife made a comment to him claiming she saw Lee -- & I think the song is set after the war. I think this is like an Elvis sighting. I prefer Levin's version; but if you want the steamboat (which I don't think was created by 1865), you can go with Joan Baez. When I heard Joan, I thought it referred to a steam boat myself.

[Thunkful2]

This is a great version. But after the opening Dixie Theme we see a conductor & then an opening low note. I think that on my DVD that note is louder, which to me is more dramatic. Musically speaking, for a song-performance, this is hard to beat.

[Thunkful2]

big, I don't think there is any "the." Methinks that Joan Baez heard the words wrong & reinterpreted it as a steam boat. Likewise she misheard "Stoneman's Calvary" as "so much calvary."

But this version is so much better than the Baez version -- IMHO