The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - 11/25/1976 - Winterland (Official)

[@jorhay1]

No has ever or will ever sing thing like Levon.

[@jaycorby]

jorhay1 Really dig your thumbnail...assume u'r Orthodox

[@camarasaurus1]

A great recording of a fine performance ; Levon is so special , as is Rick Danko , a no nonsense bass player who can sing

[@dixonstreetdrummer1846]

Amazing how much better the remastered version is. The only thing not touched up or enhanced is Levon Helms voice or drums. Sheer brilliance he was.

[@codemaster94]

Late reply to an old comment but the reason there's no overdubs from him is because he refused to come back to overdub the album. He was against The Last Waltz idea entirely.

[@LionAndALamb]

The older I get, the more I understand the perfection he achieved.

[@rohitnayyar4006]

Levon Helm - what a voice and drummer. I tip my hat to your sir. RIP

[@KloiePicot]

First record I ever bought and took the "take what you need and leave the rest but they should never have taken the very best" with me in all my travels. The song left an imprint til this day

[@greeneyes2797]

I think this was the 200th anniversary of America version where the bells rang for a long time and Americans cried everywhere!

[@Passion535]

I don't know what it is about this song, but, something must have happened to me when this song came out, because every time I hear it I get "all welled up inside" and a few tears start to flow! OK, quite a few then??

[@peachesb-georgia1125]

Beautiful song...

[@tysontt22]

Such an amazing performance.

[@jebstewart9013]

Wow Wow.....Wow~~~~luv Levon ✨💕

[@djkarv23]

Is amazing to find another view in the Last Waltz!

[@kenmckenzo9465]

How good? Chills. That's how good.

[@wolfwilliams]

If it's true that this was the last time Levon ever sang this song, then he did it with everything he had. Eric Clapton has said that he was standing just offstage and thought this was the high point of American music up to that moment.

[@edmaguire1012]

I'm a died in the wool Yankee, but I think this a true Southern tune.

[@Azznbad]

Not really it was written by a Canadian. Levon is straight southern country boy though

[@brianfoley3007]

This is awesome. So so good. Making me get a little verklempt.

[@TheBigScreenPictures]

Nice coffee talk reference

[@barbaramauney4682]

LEVON HELM AND THE BAND WERE SO UNDER RATED WITH THE TALENT THESE GUYS HAD THE MATERIAL THEY SCORED AND THE LIVE PERFORMANCES THEY DID WERE SIMPLY AMAZING AND IN MY OPINION LEVON HELM WAS ONE OF A KIND. HIS DRUMMING STYLE WAS SO UNIQUE AND UNMATCHED BY ANY OTHER. THE BAND WERE THE CONTINENTAL ROCK AND AMERICANA EXPERIENCE FOR 5(FIVE) DECADES YET THEY NEVER DID TRY TO WRITE SONGS FOR THE POP GENRE NOR DID THEY DO EXACTLY WHAT WAS CONSIDERED BY MANY AS A MILLION SELLING BAND EVEN THOUGH THEY DID HAVE SOME PLATIUM RECORDS. REST IN PEACE LEVON HELM... 1940-2012

[@Armentitron]

Amen

[@chuck4tnvols681]

Also The Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.Glad Levon was still around.

[@roopan1968]

Underrated by whom?? The Band is revered by critics, their peers, and especially their fans.

[@MsTdougherty]

Levon was incredible! There is a rock n roll heaven. And they have one hell of a drummer. And man could he sing. God bless you Levon!

[@keithmainjr9736]

Timeless ❤

[@Armentitron]

Fun fact: Levon's vocals and drumming were the only part of the concert that went unedited

[@triptoyourheart]

Said Levon Helm. Who btw wasn't even attending the mixing sessions. Some things were fixed but not all as can be heard in these live feed mixes.

[@loripounds5000]

Levon sang with everything in him he put his all into singing , drums he was about the music he loved so

[@michaelhoward7009]

Bight have been the first Indie group-they were just both brilliant-and unique. So glad I grew up watching theses shows.

[@fgsp8909]

" and like my brothers abooooooove me " So funny how robbie anticipated how levon would sing this line very well, he looked at him and then look at the sky " is this guy not that incredible ? " And its the most reproduced moment of the song. Classic signature of levon .

[@djgcol]

AWESOME!

[@waynebiggs8186]

Good ole days

[@ulfjeppsson9109]

LOVE

[@Davoodoo69]

I never got into these guys , however this song/ version is bad ass !

[@jamesbarrick3403]

this is a nice lil gem... glad I stopped by to catch this. The Band is unique - don't know another artist that is R&B/Blues/Country.

[@michaeloregan679]

I had the DVD of this great concert & I had 2 copies & I gave 1 to a 20 year old to show her my musical taste was not of a old fogey

[@sadeyedlady]

🙌🙌👆👆❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@andypetrovich2155]

ahhh the horn section. I love the moaning!

[@matteofacheris]

God bless Dixie

[@gleechharnog1117]

uh, no.

[@forging4life440]

@@gleechharnog1117 Uh, yes.

[@MaryGerdt]

Amazing version. History of the deep wounds of the South. Starving farm boys sent to war. Robert E Lee surrendered, an incredibly difficult decision. Thousands would not die. Today, Lee’s statue was defiled and will be removed. History rewritten. Forgotten. Levon’s song explains in simple terms. “They should have never taken the very best “. ❤️

[@brook8523]

What a disgraceful comment. You have no idea what Lee did after the war.

[@MaryGerdt]

Lee was not a slave owner... www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-E-Lee/Postwar-years-and-position-in-history He was maligned as a butcher while Sherman marched to the sea, leave a trail of broken, suffering bystanders, innocent people.

[@MaryGerdt]

It was war. Sherman was no saint www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/scorched-earth

[@nilsbrownmusic4507]

Good point about statues. This song is about Sherman’s March to the sea though, is it not? In which many died,

[@SJKLR99]

That's a complete joke to take that down....pissed at my country

[@simonyip5978]

I am not American but this makes me think of the awful effects of the ACW and how it wasn't as clear cut as it sometimes seems. Southern Soldier is also similar and makes me think in a similar way.

[@roryweiler3959]

I am an American, and this is a song, not an endorsement of a particular side or ideology of the ACW. It's just entertainment

[@InqvisitorMagnvs]

@@roryweiler3959 I am an American and this is a song which is much deeper than mere entertainment, as it no doubt was for Levon Helm and countless other Americans with Dixian ancestors in the War Between the States who sacrificed and suffered like Virgil Caine, in the Winter of '65, hungry, just barely alive...

[@MsMounen]

Have you read Ambrose Bierce's short stories? He was a soldier in the civil war and a few of his stories are set during that time. He was an amazing writer. No one knows when he died because he took himself off to Mexico and disappeared there.

[@takaakitakemoto4153]

リヴォン最高😂

[@carsondyle1793]

Think this was the last time Levon sang this song.

[@bjaded1]

he did it at the last waltz in the 80s

[@joepierce7103]

@@bjaded1 This is the raw footage of The Last Waltz, bud. The Last Waltz was Thanksgiving 1976.

[@bjaded1]

@@joepierce7103 sure is.. dont know why i thought the last waltz was 86'

[@user-yf7jw5nc8g]

The South needs to do it again , long live the Bars and Stars

[@modelsteamers671]

What, lose another war?

[@danfarris135]

You do realize most of the Band were Canadians right? It’s just a great song that Levon ( from Arkansas) sang it best. Others have performed it, but Levon sang it as if he lived it and owned it.

[@MrSean03839]

Ya, create a society based on slavery that lead to endless crimes against humanity and kill hundreds of thousands. Not.

[@davidruddock508]

Yikes. Sad to see Richard Manual was so heavily mixed out of the film compared to these raw soundboard captures. He is all over the microphone and can barely keep in sync on the lyrics. Also hearing a lot of Garth's flourishes that aren't in the film or soundtrack, which is too bad. Interesting to hear what Scorsese decided to cut, though, and that was The Band's less desirable rough edges.

[@MrThermostatic]

Great version! too bad there's not better footage!🤭

[@filippocanaliderossi8721]

I think there is

[@takaakitakemoto4153]

0:25

[@5UsualSuspects1]

Sadly,this is the last time Levon ever performed this song.

[@Dan0__]

Nooo.... Really?

[@5UsualSuspects1]

@@quenoselecruzenadie Thank you for this. I have yet to find the footage you speak of, but I'll keep looking. His daughter, Amy, performs it with her band, and of course there are all the last waltz clips. And the original studio version. I'll keep looking.

[@joepierce7103]

@@Dan0__ Yes, he was furious that Robbie allowed Joan Baez to cover the song, especially because it was such a terrible rendition and butchered the lyrics. Levon was also upset that he didn't get writing credit for the song. As a result, he never performed the song in public again.

[@hugorichards9598]

Read yr comments Really dig your perspectives . Made me even more certain that I have chosen rhe proper family. I am 71 now--need to jam more. My family is Fred Neil, Stephen Stills, Eric Clapton, et al. My princess sisters include Joni, Gllian Welch, Diana Krall, and recently Bonnie Rait per John Prine, "Wings from Montgomery". And to the point I would tell you, in the spirit of your comments: While on the road in northern Alabama I was mutually beriended by a young fellow from Haleyville, AL. Took me to his home, some trailors in the forest, and his mom. Was pronounced family and was fed, showered, and more. Stayed a few days and returned often. I was out of Gainesvill, FL at the time and working as an indepent contractor, lucratively researching data on poultry growers in southern county courts. Enabled me and Westfalia VW van to travel deep within. I power-fisted a group of black children waiting for the school bus at dawn on a not too improved country road. They went wild--so did I. Upon this writing I realize that I should have stopped the van, got out, and welcomed a possibly compassionate event. I might have spoken, or better, listened. Ah, we become more innotative as we grow older, and more lonely. Back to David, my host in Haleyville: He took me "down town" of a Friday night where we did a little bar hopping and eventually to a back room poker game where I won a bunch o' local money. I am a pro, studied, been mentored and trained. so, BACK TO DAVID AND THE POINT: David took me to and explained a statue in town center. He told me that Haleyville sits on the border on North and South. Members, brothers of the same family--some chose to serve with the North; some brothers of the same family chose to take up arms with the South. Oh, a mother's dismay, Oh, a country's dismay. So, the perspective you folks have expressed a posittion of which I had been uncertain; now clarity is imposing. I now am resolved that the monuments of the Confederacy should remain standing, even restored. As a distinction of our nation --we are ALLL immigrants, inclusiveness being the best part of the bargain. Perhaps those would erase the confederate monuments could see that they remind us of the injustice that was served upon generations of a race. Those who perpuated that injustice were not terrorists, though they were mean, misdirected, and cruelly selfish. However, they were acting out a moral code that was delivered upon them, albeit, as immigrants In closing: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

[@JohnSmith-ez8dn]

Haven't read that much BS for a long time, especiall in the comments of THIS song, cause it means exactly the OPPOSITE of what you are seeing in it. "upon genertations of a race" - really ? There is only ONE race, the human race, moron. And the south, meaning EVERYBODY supporting slavery, has gotten what they deserverd, some not even enough to justify what they and there forfathers had done.

[@MrMusicguyma]

Less than perfect, but still great.

[@johngilliam346]

How was the Joan Baez version more popular? I'm a liberal, pro union folkie like Baez but god dam. The Band is so much more passionate and better. She didn't even get the lyrics right. Was this just a money grab?

[@worseto1]

We need to start a new Confederate army.

[@univac7677]

We need to remember and learn from the past. We are better as one nation. It’s a crazy world out there, I want all my fellow Americans by my side.

[@jamesluty7700]

You need to be less insecure.

[@GBeret83]

@worseto1, Hey, Robert E. Lee surrendered.........I didn't!

[@Dan0__]

Good grief... no... What we need is the truth after 160 years! The north likes to claim the moral high ground... Who can blame a southerner for being miffed over that? The winners always like to make it about moral values and just skip over the economic component... We are better as a union and slavery had to go... but let's be honest... slavery still exists in a number of forms... Debt, and no hope for ever owning your own home being a big one!

[@alexvieyra3821]

Fucking traitor