Steve Earle & The Bluegrass dukes - Dixieland

Steve Earle & The Bluegrass dukes performing the song Dixieland at Tønder festival in Denmark 27th of August 2006.
Awesome show!!

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[johnny991965]

Steve can really put a shedload of emotion into a story. This song epitomises the civil war. God bless you Mr Earle!

[ConorSod]

And the Brits would hang me for a fenian.

[hughhill]

@jd1655 That's because the man is a virtuoso and a true artist. God Bless Steve Earle

[jd1655]

Great song. Amazes me how effortlessly he transitions across styles, and manages to bring fans along with him as he does it

[duinband]

amazing version, great fiddler!

[maldoror1901]

catholic irish fougt on both sides of the war.

[HaulwoodDon]

good stuff is all I know

[darlincommitme]

@cloudbuster77

billybill is right - if you listen to the lyrics, it is clear Earle is talking about a recent immigrant and Fenian (Catholic Irish rebel) who left Ireland and joined the 20th Maine. The unit was crucial in the Union victory at Gettysburg. The song is based on the book Killer Angels by Shaara.

[billybill56]

@cloudbuster77 It was the Catholic Irish immigrants that fought for the north in the Civil War.

[cloudbuster77]

@billybill56 Is he talking about an irishman or a scotch-irishman? Catholic irish didn't settle in appalachia or dixie, that was the scotch-irish protestants (ppl from scotland and north england that settled in northern ireland in the 1600s, then many of em emigrated from there to pennsylvania and filtered down through appalachia and started bluegrass)

[shadowman32au]

imagine if such intelligent songs made main stream radio. Maybe play station 3 wouldnt be so popular ........Good luck to ya steve, Terrific song, ............see ya on the boat