Ever hear Joan Baez sing, “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down”? That’s brutal.
“Ever hear Joan Baez sing, “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down”? That’s brutal.”
LOL. It is. Baez’s naive earnestness and picture-perfect diction. You can just see her imagining that the song had something to do with the proletariat, somehow.
A little like Linda Ronstadt’s version of “Allison.” She’s done some nice work—but it was a very wrong song for that artist.
File all the rough edges off a rough song and you get high comedy.