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Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
You tube ^ | 1969 | Joan Baez

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...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: dixie; music; theband
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I know Joan is a hero of the left. Does this song cause the "woke" culture to reject her? Just asking.
1 posted on 04/03/2021 9:24:36 PM PDT by Shark24
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To: Shark24

She’s always been a Hate America type


2 posted on 04/03/2021 9:33:00 PM PDT by CIBvet (So how's all this FAST TRAKED - FREE TRADE workin' out for ya so far, Comrade Job-Seeker? Grrr...)
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To: CIBvet

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.


3 posted on 04/03/2021 9:36:34 PM PDT by Shark24 ( )
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To: Shark24

Joan gets the words wrong. The band’s original version is better.

CC


4 posted on 04/03/2021 9:45:16 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Shark24

IMHO, she did the best cover of it.

The ‘60s were a tumultuous time, but some of those dang leftists made great music. ;-)


5 posted on 04/03/2021 9:45:45 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
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To: Celtic Conservative

To each his own. :-)


6 posted on 04/03/2021 9:46:44 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
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To: dixiechick2000

I agree. Great music sometimes.


7 posted on 04/03/2021 9:48:57 PM PDT by Shark24 ( )
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To: Shark24

It is a song to be sung by a man. I never understood why she did it.


8 posted on 04/03/2021 9:49:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Shark24

Bump!


9 posted on 04/03/2021 9:50:03 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
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To: Shark24

I drove down to Win Dixie last night, but they were out of sauerkraut.


10 posted on 04/03/2021 9:50:53 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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To: dixiechick2000

Her singing this song makes about as much sense as a dude singing “I Am Woman”.


11 posted on 04/03/2021 9:51:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Richard Axtell

Can’t you ever be series?


12 posted on 04/03/2021 9:51:50 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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To: Shark24

Baez’s vibrato has me grinding my teeth together after about 10 seconds of it. Not a fan.


13 posted on 04/03/2021 9:52:04 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: CIBvet

Of course, we can always listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICAsimtEsU8


14 posted on 04/03/2021 9:52:36 PM PDT by Shark24 ( )
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To: Shark24

Whatever. Old hippy pinko bitch


15 posted on 04/03/2021 9:53:03 PM PDT by albie
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To: Shark24

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.


16 posted on 04/03/2021 9:56:36 PM PDT by lee martell
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It’s not a woman’s song. I never liked her doing it.


17 posted on 04/03/2021 9:57:36 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: lee martell

The very first word of the lyrics to this song eliminates women form singing this song.


18 posted on 04/03/2021 9:59:23 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Shark24

bookmark


19 posted on 04/03/2021 10:08:38 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Shark24

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


20 posted on 04/03/2021 10:09:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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