The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Band

In Stern Grove, on July 12, Joan Baez played a free show on her summer tour. I admit she's one of the most commercially viable remnants of the 60's folk scare, but I just can't forgive her hack-job on The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. To take a song of this caliber and emasculate it, drain the meaning from it, toss it's soul to the wayside, and sing it as a paean to your own sense of political correctness is just plain wrong. Above is the song done properly, and in fairness, here is a link to Joan's version. ( That's my opinion, and I'm stickin' with it )