The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

"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. Levon Helm provided the lead vocals. 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"
Side B of the Canadian single
Single by the Band
from the album The Band
A-side"Up on Cripple Creek"
ReleasedSeptember 22, 1969
Recorded1969
GenreFolk rock
Length3:33
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Robbie Robertson
Producer(s)John Simon
Audio
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band on YouTube

Joan Baez's version peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 on 2 October 1971; it did likewise on the Cashbox Top 100 chart. However, on the Record World Top Singles chart for the week of September 25, 1971, the Baez single hit #1 for one week.

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