The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a 1969 song by Canadian-American The Band and taken from their second studio album The Band. It is an A-side to their hit Up on Cripple Creek.
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | |
|---|---|
| Single by the Band | |
| from The Band" | |
| A-side | "Up on Cripple Creek" |
| Released | September 22, 1969 |
| Recorded | 1969 |
| Genre | Folk rock[1][2] |
| Length | 3:33 |
| Label | Capitol |
| Songwriter(s) | Robbie Robertson |
| Producer(s) | John Simon |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band at YouTube | |
Joan Baez version
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | ||||
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| Single by Joan Baez | ||||
| from Blessed Are..." | ||||
| B-side | "When Time Is Stolen" | |||
| Released | August 1971 | |||
| Genre | Country Folk | |||
| Length | 3:26 | |||
| Label | Vanguard | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Robbie Robertson | |||
| Producer(s) | Norbert Putnam | |||
| Joan Baez singles chronology | ||||
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The most successful version of the song belongs to Joan Baez and was taken from her 12th studio album Blessed Are.... It went to number 3 in Canada and the United States, number 4 in New Zealand, number 5 in Australia, number 6 in the United Kingdom and number 8 in Ireland.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Media
The lyrics of the song discuss the destruction of the Richmond and Danville Railroad that carried supplies for the Confederate Army at Petersburg.
References
- ↑ Pitchfork Staff (August 18, 2006). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
...whose dramatic performance here turns a period piece that could have been a "Schoolhouse Rock" episode into a mournful piece of folk-rock.
- ↑ Valdez, Steve (2014). "Folk rock". In Henderson, Lol; Stacey, Lee (eds.). Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century. London: Routledge. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-135-92946-6.
