The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down was written by Robbie Robertson, one of four original Canadian members of The Band. The other three were Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko. The four were joined by drummer Levon Helms, an American by birth.
This has always been one of my favorite songs. Being an avid reader of Civil War history, the songs lyrics, rendered by Helms with mixtures of sadness and hope, are haunting.
As always on this illogical march to number one, suggestions are welcome.
The people going hungry to pay for (a small fraction of) Trump’s wars and
upper-class tax cuts
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Republican priorities cannot be laid out more starkly than this: As spring
hit Maine and the lobstermen prepared for the summer season by repairing
their...
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