Posted on 04/03/2021 9:24:36 PM PDT by Shark24
...one of the best-loved songs ever recorded about the Civil War: "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band. The song was first recorded in 1969, and was later covered and/or performed by Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Jerry Garcia, the Black Crowes, Bruce Hornsby, and the Allman Brothers Band, among others...
She’s always been a Hate America type
Yep. The reason I posted this is that a progressive hero could sing this song and be celebrated with no cancel culture. I like the song and thing she has a good voice. Oh well.
Joan gets the words wrong. The band’s original version is better.
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IMHO, she did the best cover of it.
The ‘60s were a tumultuous time, but some of those dang leftists made great music. ;-)
To each his own. :-)
I agree. Great music sometimes.
It is a song to be sung by a man. I never understood why she did it.
Bump!
I drove down to Win Dixie last night, but they were out of sauerkraut.
Her singing this song makes about as much sense as a dude singing “I Am Woman”.
Can’t you ever be series?
Baez’s vibrato has me grinding my teeth together after about 10 seconds of it. Not a fan.
Whatever. Old hippy pinko bitch
All politics aside, if you can manage it; the simple truth is Joan OWNS this song. Her version, sung with her voice of that time is the best I’ve ever heard.
This has zero to do with her stated beliefs about government.
Another example of someone covering a song not their own and wearing it like a fine mink stole, would be
Whitney Houston singing “I Will Always Love You”, written by Dolly Parton. Dolly has a lovely singing voice as Porter Wagoner could have told you, but Whitney re-imagined and rearranged the structure, the emphasis of this song and made it all hers.
It’s not a woman’s song. I never liked her doing it.
The very first word of the lyrics to this song eliminates women form singing this song.
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She didn’t write it
Robbie Robertson did
In homage to Levon Helms daddy in Marvel Arkansas a village around 20 miles west of Helena.....home to Irish born Confederate legend Patrick Cleburne....who coincidentally died 1000 yards or so 330 degrees from where I’m lying in bed with rib and chihuahua typing this post on my ipad air
One flaw in the beautiful song is that Marse Robert never rode thru Tennessee with Army of Northern Virginia et al
It’s a toss up who did it best.....but I love Levon Helms voice....Joan Baez who was cute as a young woman was too folkie for me....Judy Collins with beads and patchouli ....I prefer Joni Mitchell or Carole King for that genre
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