THE BAND The night they drove old Dixie down REACTION - Something so good from something so bad!
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THE BAND The night they drove old Dixie down REACTION.Firat time hearing.This qas a beautiful performance that is bound to evoke emotion.
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That "drummer" was Levon Helm. I'm 59 years old and have attended and promoted concerts for 45 years. He is still one of the greatest performers I have ever personally seen.
Rick Danko singing "It Makes No Difference" from this concert (The Last Waltz) will stop you dead in your tracks. Just a bunch of lads from my home province of Ontario (and 1 from Arkansas) making a beautiful noise together. Great rxn, Harri - cheers!
Yep, agree!
Harri already reacted
I actually requested it, it's a favorite of mine
Rick's singing goes straight to the heart 🎶💜🎵
@@missblondie2393 Good!! Everybody needs to hear Danko in that performance! He had such a unique and wonderful vocal style! Damn fine bass player too!
Love The Band, have since 1969 when I first heard "Up on Cripple Creek". All of them so talented, but I have a soft spot for Robbie and Rick Danko. Love Robbie's guitar playing, and he was so handsome in his younger days. Love Rick's voice, and he seems like a real sweetheart, very cute.
@@missblondie2393 If you ever look at your old comments you should check out the version Rick sings in Tokyo, older with more pain, Richard Manuel had already committed suicide. The emotion is profound
The fact that a drummer from the Deep South could get together with a bunch of Canadians, be the back up band for two Musical Legends, and then break out on their own, is a story unparalleled.
One of my good buddies, who introduced me to a lot of great music when we were younger, said to me one time, expressing his point in the simplest of terms "there's a reason they were called 'The Band'...."....and I think you summed up very well exactly what he was talking about.
And be from the patron state of shooting shit in that movie shooter tu che''''''
@@thomasedmondson3585 tell me more
@@saubervonHerzenit is the band that brought a genre to modern music.. it was levons stories to robbie who wrote the lyrics.
Wasn't as crazy back then as it'd be today.
It's about the end of the war, going back home and all is vastly different. They drove old Dixie down, never to rise again.
I agree
But we are rising again, as of now! If you don't have a rebel soul then you will never understand!!!
Robbie Robertson (the guitarist and writer of this song) said in interviews that a lot of the inspiration for this song came when he visited Levon Helm's family in the South for the first time. Levon's father told Robbie that, "The South will rise again". That stuck with him and helped him create this masterpiece.
Exactly! Back when the Band was playing a lot of people in the South were still very prejudiced and didn't want integration. Levon Helm was a genius! I loved his acting too in Coal Miners Daughter and especially in The Shooter. You could see that he was weak and old in that movie but did an incredible job. Love The Band!
Leon Helm the drummer/vocalist was from Turkey Scratch Arkansas, so he well knew the pain of the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. This song and anything from the last waltz concert on Thanksgiving day, 1976 is fantastic and arguably the best concert of all time.
I thought he was from Marvell.
@@wangofree
I have heard both, Marvell Arkansas is about 2 1/2 to 3 miles south of Turkey Scratch.
I live northwest of there in the Ozarks on the Arkansas Missouri border.
@@humpy936 Thanks! I'm in Kansas and have visited Arkansas but I'm not familiar with that particular area. Thanks for the info!
@@wangofreethere’s a great history online here: arkansasheritage.com/blog/dah/2022/04/19/turkey-scratch-arkansas
Robbie Robertson wrote that song specially for Levon Helm who was from the south and the only American in the group . They were from Canada . The song is of course about the American civil war and the south’s surrender “on May 10th Richmond fell, it’s a time I remember oh so well “.
Levon literally singing his heart out his chest on this one ❤
One of the greatest songs in rock and roll.
Robbie 🇨🇦 wrote this specially for Levon 🇺🇸, The Band was Canadian 🇨🇦 YOU MUST watch The Last Waltz!
Levon Helm was one of the coolest cats that ever walked the earth!
Lovely man, I could listen to him forever, his talking voice was so sweet.
They were so different, totally unique. You could probably say they created Americana.
In a class by themselves. And one of the greatest bands of rock history. Sorely miss these cats 🤘❤️
The GREAT Levon Helm from my state of Arkansas on drums and vocals. RIP sir and WooooPiiigggSooooiiieee!
This is just a song that gets to me. I heard it on a transistor radio on a school field trip to Harper's Ferry WV in maybe 1970. Stuck right there and then.
Levon Helm was from Arkansas, the rest of The Band from Canado, Toronto and nearby areas. Robbie Robertson wote this song after visiting Levon and his family.
A nice , cogent , heartfelt review of my favorite recording of one of my favorite songs .....Thank you , Harry !
Thanks for the review. It's an amazing tune. The word you used "emotive" is a great description. This tune and "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," are the two greatest songs about war and loss.
As many others will mention, this is one of the greatest concert movies ever made, and maybe the greatest. It's the same concert you saw a bit of when you reacted to them performing "The Weight" with the Staple Singers, and that's just two of the highlights of the concert. I'd like to see you react again to pretty much any song from this concert!
I can see the love song in it .. though its not about boy & girl.. its the love of a young man for his family.
"The guy on the drums" is the great Levon Helm.
This brought me back to elementary school playgrounds. For unknown reason, scenes are vivid in mind. Guess I needed to hear this song today. THANK YOU.
You can see Levon Helm's acting talents in Steven Seagal's "Fire Down Below." This was Bob Dylan's backup band for many years, "The Band"
The point to this this song is that to these young men weren't really fighting about race. They were heartbroken because to them, they were fighting about the heautifu land of the south. They weren't soldiers they were hard working farmers trying to defend their land. The politicians are the ones that made the Civil war about race. Same with Vietnam and other wars.
The BAND is in a special place in our old-school Rock.
Song written by Robbie Robertson a Canadian native from the Six Nations super talented . Actually 4 members of this band are Canadian . They were Ronnie Hawkins band and later backed Bob Dylan as well . Sadly all but two are still alive . Robbie Robertson Canadian, Garth Hudson Canadian , Rick Danko Canadian , Richard Manuel Canadian . Levon Helm USA lead vocalist and drummer in this band and in this song . All amazing musicians , One fantastic band.
If you haven't seen The Last Waltz, it is the greatest concert film ever...a must see!
It's like patting your head while rubbing your tummy at the same time, drumming and singing...
"Well, Virgil Cane is the name, and I served on the Danville train -- 'til Stoneman's cavalry came and they tore up the tracks again"
That's like the first line of the great American novel right there. That they opened a little top forty radio song with that line...it tells you something about Robbie Robertson, and where we've gone as a culture that nothing close to this is out there as popular art today. And Sam Shepherd said that Levon Helm was the only musician who could make you cry with the drums. He was correct.
I had ancestors on both sides I’m proud of them .
This performance, in my opinion is the best live performance I've seen. Levon Helm is fantastic!
You have to know that this song was released in 1969 and the world was in a completely different musical era. Love, drugs lots of LSD and a complete revolution of music.
harry you did a great loving job of this review..
The lyric was " I swear by the blood beneath my feet you can't raise a Cain up when he's in defeat". His brother was killed in the war.
There is a song which Peter Paul and Mary did which was as old as the war in this song and was sung during it (it may have been about 90 years older than that). It's called The Cruel War.
Lemon Helm...just the best..drummer and singer...RIP
Drummer singers include Rare Earth and Grand Funk, both awesome voices
As a southern man this is special.I remember how my grandmother used to spit the word "yankee"
So proud he's from Toronto 😊💓
levon love and respect he was a monster musician
let me correct myself these were all monster musicians the very best
The backing voices you hear are Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. Richard was not shown in the video.
Some people think of it as the War of Northern Aggression. The 1965 movie, Shenandoah, starring James Stewart shows this side of the horrors of war for the southerners that didn't own slaves and didn't necessarily believe in slavery.
The version I listened to was sung by Joan Baez in '71 and it was great...
The Band and Levon do Americana like nobody else.
RIP Robbie Robertson...
Harri, the drummer Levon Helm was the coolest guy God ever put breath in. He has a few solo albums that are totally awesome....
4 of them toward the end of his life won grammy awards.
Levon was from Arkansas
Levon Helm is the singer here and that makes sense. He's the only american guy and he's from the south, the other guys are all Canadians.
It was a love song of sorts...a love and sorrow and nostalgic longing for the end of his homeland, and culture, which he'd known and loved his whole life.
I swear by the blood below my feet is the line you questioned..
The Band was a cool deal.
Love this! Always loved this song!
Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need
And you leave the rest
But they should never
Have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Kane back up
When he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
RIP Levon. Nice one Harri ❤️
Unfortunately, war inspires so many great songs: Run Through the Jungle by CCR, Rooster by Alice In Chains, When the Tigers Broke Free by Pink Floyd, etc. Thanks for the inspiring reaction 🤘
I was more familiar with Joan Baez' cover as I was too young to appreciate The Band when they were active. What is funny is that I started working on my genealogy when her version of this song came out and it will always remind me of the story I learned of my Great Great Grandfather, especially the line about "the mud below my feet". He was with the 11th Wisconsin in Georgia and slipped on the red Georgia mud which caused a hernia so he was mustered out and sent home (all they could do was push it back in and make him wear a truss, which didn't keep it in). It is always funny the memories that songs bring back.
Joan B screwed up the Band's lyrics.
This song still brings me to tears. So many great songs from The Band.
The Band have a lot of songs that are not about the war. Love songs and others. One song that I love is, The Shape I’m In from the Stage Fright album. You should listen to more from them, even if you don’t put it on your show. They were truly great.
Yes, the Eagle's drummer is Don Henley.
My great- great-grandfather was in Stoneman's calvary when he tore through the South. Apparently he was exceedingly proud of that fact and never let anyone forget it for the rest of his life.
Well, they were tearing through states who wanted to leave the Union so they could continue to use other humans as farm animals.
When the original came out they didn't sound like anything anyone else was playing. Certainly a mix...that came to be called "Americana".
Greatness
I am with ya Harry !!!
They are ‘The’ Band. Evergreen brilliance….Levons voice….!
You have a high emotional intelligence. To understand the music from an objective perspective, show great insight. 🙏
Best version of this song levon kills it
Try to watch the documentary, The Last Waltz.
The greatest vocals ever sang
Please listen to these guys doing " the weight" live with the Staple singers. I love Levon best singer/ drummer ever!
The Joan Baez cover on this was good too.
The verse was” I swear by the “blood “ below his feet” 🤗…..
Try Dont Do it and King Harvest from Rock of Ages - The Band live on NYE.
Always thought it was "the blood beneath my feet"
Right or wrong the song reflects the sadness of the lose the south had even to this day of many in the south.
The singer is perhaps feeling the loss that the South felt as their world was destroyed by the Yankees. The singer was from Arkansas.
RIP Robbie.
Joan Baez had her biggest hit with a cover of this song. It's woth a listen.
Please check out and react to Acadian Driftwood by The Band!
Karen Carpenter was a drummer, and damn good one. RIP
Rick James was originally a drummer too.
About war from the perspective of the losing side and a war principally about slavery which the Confederacy (Dixieland) fought to maintain. But even given that, there was still the human and personal loss for the losing side which this song recognises, unusual as most songs about a specific war celebrate the victors.
Love Levon Helm.
Sammy Davis Jr. was a drummer…. 👏👏
One of the late ,great Robbie Robertson 's finest tunes ...if not the finest ! That rendition at the Last Waltz concert in 1976 ,was the last time The Band performed their anthem with the original 5 musician group ! Talk about saving the best for last ? Jeezo ! No other Band came close to The Band's musicality in my opinion ...to this day some 47 years later !
it is sort of a love song. people love their homeland and at the time it was destroyed
Great song. Joan Baez sang a great version as well.
About the civil war (United States) in the 1860s in the south. Northern General Sherman Douglas marched his troops into Atlanta and set fire to everything left, after he and his soldiers went in and stole property from old people and raped the women etc. Abraham Lincoln sent him (Douglas) in to take control at the wars end, but obviously didn't tell General Douglas to commit those horrible war crimes. The southern states were referred to as "Dixie." These things have happened in every war ever fought. Very sad.
There are some weird allusions in these lyrics. "Swear by the mud beneath my feet" sort of engenders thoughts of "blood and soil", his name is Virgil Kane and he's haunted by his dead brother's legacy, his assertion that he "don't mind chopping wood, and don't care if the money's no good" sharply contrasts with the his wistful lament in opening line that he was operator of the Danville line train (a job highly skilled and prestigious enough to keep him out of conscription)... this is one of my favorite songs, and I always felt the lyrics to have a degree of unreliable narration.
you have heavier balls than almost any youtuber. #GodBless
A song crying about the defeat of slavers. Thank god we drove ole dixie down!
Watch Don't Do It from The Last Waltz
That's a very impressive version. You should listen to that song with Joan Baez. That's awesome.
I like that a Brit is doing this. Emotional divorced
i hav heard joan baez sing this ...i like this more
Why wish the subject matter is different? It is a love story for the story of the common man and his history and destiny.
❤
Many people have a misunderstanding of this song. They hear a couple of "keywords" and dismiss it as some kind of Southron Memorial. I am a Bluest of the Blue Yankee and this song expresses the sorrow of the utterly vanquished Gray. It breaks your heart and yet compels you to sing along. This is something only music can do. It is a Tragic Opera in 4 minutes. It is not a tale of "The Lost Cause".
That's a great comment thank you. It's certainly a sorrowful song in a live setting. Backing vocals by Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson lends to the emotion felt. Listening in 2023 from New Zealand in the South Pacific. Happy holidays.
@@alexkimi5060 Robertson's mike was turned off...Richard Manuel is neglected with shots on camera, he was singing
@@blindriv3r thanks I didn't know that. All the best.
There are conflicting reports as to if Robbie's mike was turned off. Some say that is what Levon wrote in his book, or his editor wanted to put in. However, Robbie wrote the song, and plays a great guitar, so what if he can't sing. The Band had 3 great singers, Richard, Levon and last, but not least Rick Danko.@@alexkimi5060
Its not "lost cause"
It's the average person's perspective. There was no "blue" and "grey" to most beyond uniforms. And in the south, grey wasn't even universal.
This is a rural man who had his life upended by a war. It could be any war, any side.
It's not about your noble pity for someone you imagine would be your enemy.
It's about how any and all wars just cause suffering. And the ones that do have little to no idea why.
I am 73 years old and was raised in a small town in Virginia. When I was a child just playing outside we found all kinds of civil war relics just lying around my grandparents property. This town was taken back and forth between the North and South over 70 times. In fact I thought the war was just fought in my parents life time until I went to school and found out differently. My daughter and her family live in a house that was a hospital for each side depending on who had the upper hand. I love this song and it always takes me back home tho I am now living far away
Thanks for sharing that.
Yep, my grandmother lived in Hopewell, VA. I'd visit in the summer. We'd go to some of the old battlefields. Not necessarily the government protected ones. We'd find stuff all the time. Long ago and far away.
Likewise, for about a year, I lived in Catlett,Virginia, just south of Manassas also known as Bull Run, I was never really looking for Civil War artifacts, but while out hunting along the cornfields, I would pick up quite a few mini balls, and that’s without looking for them, this particular area saw a lot of action, and movement of troops both north and south.
Wow, I hope you found some nice relics!
A great song about a terrible time in America. Elvis Presley’s American trilogy is another heartfelt performance and song from a southerner.
This is from the 1969 album The Band. It's about the last days of The Civil War, written by Robbie Robertson after he read up on The Civil War.
The 3 part harmonies of Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel fuse together to create a wonderful blend. Levon's voice carries the tune and delivers a great story. Joan Baez did a cover in 1971, and this was her highest charting song reading Number 3 in the US. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Miss Blondie. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Hi Mary and thank you for your great comment
I love the Band and happy to know you do too
Love and Music my Canadian friend
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@miss blondie Hope you're well my American friend. 😊👍✌️🎶🇺🇲🤗🇨🇦
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The Last Waltz movie directed by Martin Scorsese is probably the best concert movie ever made with so many great artists joining in.
I just watched The Last Waltz after hearing this. I googled Levon Helm and found the film on Prime. Great film..
There was so much in that concert that left me in awe of so many artist.