The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
1969 single by The Band
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a 1969 song by Canadian-American The Band and taken from their second studio album The Band. It is an A-side to their hit Up on Cripple Creek.
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | |
|---|---|
| Single by the Band | |
| from the album The Band | |
| A-side | "Up on Cripple Creek" |
| Released | September 22, 1969 |
| Recorded | 1969 |
| Genre | Folk rock[1][2] |
| Length | 3:33 |
| Label | Capitol |
| Songwriter(s) | Robbie Robertson |
| Producer(s) | John Simon |
| Audio | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band on YouTube | |
Joan Baez version
change| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | ||||
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| Single by Joan Baez | ||||
| from the album Blessed Are... | ||||
| B-side | "When Time Is Stolen" | |||
| Released | August 1971 | |||
| Genre | Country Folk | |||
| Length | 3:26 | |||
| Label | Vanguard | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Robbie Robertson | |||
| Producer(s) | Norbert Putnam | |||
| Joan Baez singles chronology | ||||
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The most successful version of the song belongs to Joan Baez. It was taken from her 12th studio album Blessed Are.... It went to number 3 in Canada and the United States, number 4 in New Zealand, number 5 in Australia, number 6 in the United Kingdom and number 8 in Ireland.
References
change- ↑ Pitchfork Staff (August 18, 2006). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
...whose dramatic performance here turns a period piece that could have been a "Schoolhouse Rock" episode into a mournful piece of folk-rock.
- ↑ Valdez, Steve (2014). "Folk rock". In Henderson, Lol; Stacey, Lee (eds.). Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century. London: Routledge. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-135-92946-6.
