![]() ![]() Then the concept came to him and he researched the subject with help from the Band's drummer Levon Helm, a native of Arkansas. ![]() ![]() Robertson said he had the music to the song in his head and would play the chords over and over on the piano but had no idea what the song was to be about. The song was written by Robbie Robertson, who spent about eight months working on it. However, on the Record World Top Singles chart for the week of September 25, 1971, the Baez single hit #1 for one week. Joan Baez's version peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 on 2 October 1971 it did likewise on the Cashbox Top 100 chart. The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the American Civil War, when George Stoneman was raiding southwest Virginia. " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by Robbie Robertson and originally recorded by the Canadian-American roots rock group the Band in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band on YouTube ![]()
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