[donaldo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnyeqyCiLdo

[donaldo]

Joan Baez’s rendition is also first rate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ksYL26lZE

[11th_VA]

Great song, “he was just 18, proud and brave, when a yankee, laid him in his grave ...” always gives me chills ...

[madison10]

Awesome song. The Band sounds the best, guess it is the accent.

[MV=PY]

Agreed!

Here's another great one:

Acadian Driftwood

[BBell]

Think I’ll go visit Little Bessie

[mikeandike]

My favorite version

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM

[Lurker]

The live version of Acadian Driftwood from The Last Waltz is better, IMO.

L

[FirstFlaBn]

Wouldn’t the ring of truth require getting the month of Richmond’s fall correct? And wouldn’t it include Lee having actually gone to Tennessee during the war?

Historical fiction, OK; history, no.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I always liked Tanya Tucker’s rendition.

https://youtu.be/uHHnL3tU0go

[Enchante]

back with my wife in Tennessee

one day she called to me

she said Virgil quick, come and see

there goes Robert E. Lee

Well the history is a bit mixed up, since Robert E. Lee was not in Tennessee (nice rhyme though). Yes, it's a great song!!

[Federal46]

The Band was one of the premier rock bands ever assembled in my opinion. Certainly The “Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” was a very good song by them. It definitely put a different light on the south. One I thought was good. They recorded many great songs.

[FreedomPoster]

What tearing up the tracks looked like:

Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics, and tearing up the tracks was all about messing over Confederate logistics.

[Fiji Hill]

Juliane Werding did my favorite version--at least of the melody, but with totally different lyrics. She sings of a young man who gets addicted to drugs and dies of an overdose--a timely story from the days when the era of Peace, Love, Dope, Hare Krishna was coming to a close. This was a big hit in the spring of 1972.

Am Tag als Conny Kramer Starb (the day Conny Kramer died)--Juliane Werding (1972).

[Kartographer]

Henson Cargill - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboZ2i3cqSM

[yesthatjallen]

I remember hearing this song when I was very young and having a sense of overwhelming sadness and grief.

I knew nothing of the war but I knew this song expressed something profound.

The writer/composer was 'channeling' something. Someone was whispering in his ear to tell their story.

It really conveys the tragedy and impact on regular folk caught up in the war and beaten into submission.

It still affects me when I hear it.

[Bodleian_Girl]

This thread needs you.

[blueplum]

what’s up with youtube? I can’t get any version to play. Even did a search and clicked a few of those and got errors. Did get a commercial but that froze.

Great song tho.

[military cop]

They did “Atlantic City” more justice than Springsteen did.

RLTW

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

One of my all-time faves. Love how they got the history right with General Stoneman’s raiding cavalry. They could have been closer to the actual date Richmond fell - April 3.

[Reily]

It’s absolutely a great song!
My feelings on it exactly mirror yours.