The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (REACTION) with my wife 

Yes! "The Weight" From The Last Waltz.

Yeah, the "Staples Singers" really ad something special on "The Weight".

Definitely a super group.

Agree but those of us who know,know

The Band was underrated? That's a first time I've heard that!

@@Elaine8492 They were not underrated, but considering how superb they were, not enough people know about them.

Speaking of the legend - Richard Manuel.

Danko's my hero.

@@joelong7448 An "aw shucks" sort of ordinary guy who figured out how to be extraordinary. I really miss him and Levon. Every song they played, their hearts were on their sleeves.

@@orchidwave2574 Yessss

That must have been special. Plus, anyone who attended a performance could say they went to Woodstock!

@markmurphy558 To say I'm jealous would be a huge understatement. Levon is simply amazing.

Levon always came across as a gentle man, I could hear him speak all day.

How fierce can one musician be before igniting and exploding light toward every distance? Rhetorical question.

Thanks for listening 💚

Yep, till Stoneman’s cavalry (union troops) tore up the railroad tracks again.

Not their final performance. It may have been planned that way, but they sure kept touring without Robbie. I can show you videos.

It wasn't their last concert. They toured for years and years afterwards. It was Robbie Robertson's last gig with them.

@@bartstarr100 I saw 4/5 of The Band in a bar in Toronto in the early 80's, but I never saw The Band in concert.

Welcome aboard! Warm greetings from Romania 💚

​@@UKcanuck55Saw all but Robbie at a benefit at Kezar stadium. It was billed as Neil Young & friends,Neil,them & (wait for it) Bob Dylan. In1975, could not believe it. Pretty sure he never played with them again. It had been a while then.Look that up, you won't believe the line up. Again, benefit for SF schools.5 bucks, at least 60,000.

@@UKcanuck55 so nobody played guitar? Interesting take. I saw 3/4 of Alice in Chains then. I also saw 3/4 of Metallica. Also saw 3/4 of The Who. This is fun. Any band we see missing any original member was just some guys. Got it.

it's a very powerful song.

He never lost his beautiful country drawl.

Me, too, brother.

I second that!

Amen!!

😳

Yes, the South was pretty low on men compared to the Union, even with a large percentage of the Union Army in the west fighting native americans. They even had a few guarding the Canadian border, those Canucks weren't always as non threatening as now.

With input from Levon. Levon was the one who told him he needed to mention Robert E. Lee.

Except The Band went back to touring without Robbie.

I live in New York and I don't think Lincoln and Washington held the high moral ground,Slavery was a very small part of the civil war,It would have died out on it's own,It was fought about states right and an overreaching power of the Federal Govt! We are still suffering from that war!

Richard Manual was the main vocalist in the beginning of their career. However due to alcoholism and health, he became less and less a force in the band.

I wouldn't say most of their songs when both Danko and Manuel both sang on quite a few songs.Helm definitely sang the most songs but The Band had 3 real lead singers.

@@smedleybutler1969 I love that you love and have named yourself after the great Smedley Butler. But I must say one thing -- while the narrative you bring here definitely has SOME support, in total it is not true. The United States was a nation deeply divided by slavery, from our inception. Even slaveowner Thomas Jefferson wanted an anti-slavery and impliedly abolitionist clause that he had written, kept in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 - but the southern colonies/states walked out of the Continental Congress and he had to strike the clause from the final draft, at the behest of Ben Franklin and John Adams. He continued to champion this cause when in 1787 he spearheaded the Northwestern Ordinance, forbidding slavery in the newly acquired states of the northern territories ceded by Britain but which Americans had not yet settled. All the northern states were abolishing or were in process of abolishing slavery, from the 1780's through the 1830's, and ALL of them had abolished slavery completely before 1850. We were a divided nation -- hence Lincoln's campaign words in his debate with Stephen Douglas -- "a house divided against itself cannot stand." The whole reason the southern states seceded from the Union at the accession of Lincoln to the Presidency in 1861, was because the new-found Republican Party was an ANTI-SLAVERY party. It had its radical wing, that wanted immediate and total abolition, without recompensing the slaveowners, and possibly even enforced by military conquest. The more moderate wing, closer to the Democrats, wanted only to maintain the Union, to allow the southern states to maintain their "peculiar institution" of slavery, but to STOP slavery from expanding any further out into the newly greatly expanded continental-sized nation. And there were people in the middle. It's often pointed out that Lincoln said things like he would have preserved the Union but kept slavery, had the option been presented to him. But if you look at his whole development over those tragic four years, you see his genuine intent, not only with the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves held in bondage in those states in rebellion (but NOT those border states that had remained part of the Union like Kentucky and Tennessee), even then it was made inevitable that it would be a total abolition at the end of the war. And in January 1865, it was Lincoln who PUSHED so relentlessly to get that 13th Amendment passed in Congress -- his greatest and final act, a mere three months before he died. Everyone knew that this conflict was most centrally about slavery -- it was felt as a stain and a mark on our national character and our national pride, heritage and legacy, from the very beginning. But politics had to be played -- they couldn't just out and say it at the very beginning of the conflict especially -- even in the North they couldn't. It's a long story. But I think you're only getting one side, which has recently sort of taken over in certain conservative circles. And it is true that there was a metamorphosis of Federal power over State power as a result of that conflict. And that's where you're right, and I support what you are presenting. But to lose sight of the fact that it WAS a war in which the abolition of slavery within the United States, or its continued existence and our continued shame, praising and stating that we stood for liberty and freedom and equality and yet still keeping people in bondage, was the central spiritual meaning of that entire conflict. And We the People of the United States of America should feel incredibly proud that, not only did our northern States abolish slavery earlier than anybody else in the world, including Great Britain, which famously ended it in the British Empire in 1833 -- and from which the British actually got the idea -- but not only that, the British paid off all the slaveholders of the Empire -- they actually BOUGHT all the slaves and then freed them. The United States of America is the only modern nation-state that can claim that we actually shed blood on the battlefield in our conflict to end slavery. The United States lost something like 650,000 men on the battlefield alone (I include the Confederacy -- it was about half and half -- both sides lost over 300,000 each). And I include the Confederate soldiers in my thoughts too, because whether they knew it or not, that's actually what they died for, even if they were being presented by their leaders with a narrative that the war was only and solely about sovereign States' rights.

​@@smedleybutler1969hilariously wrong. Wow. Go back to school. A real school this time. It was about slavery. Pretty straightforward and accurate. If it was about States rights, then why wasn't the Fugitive Slave act about States rights. You've bought the KKK version hook, line, and sinker.

You had weird friends.

@@johnperrigo6474 I was lucky I had cool older sisters

I love Joan, but she butchered the lyrics.

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoy it! 😊

Me too. You are sincere and authentic and genuine.

3 singers. Robbie didn't sing until he was a solo act. And Garth doesn't sing

That really isen't true, he inspired Robbie to write this song, but Robbie was the song writer. The Shape I'm in, is a song Robbie wrote about Richard Manuel, due to his addiction problems. Stage Freight perhaps about himself and/or Rick Danko. However, you are right Levon had a very unique voice and a great drummer, but Richard and Rick also had unique voices. I happend to love Rick's voice.

Rick Danko

@@oldairyheir My bad

Greetings from Romania 💚

Great story. Thank you for sharing 💚

Wow, thank you for sharing. Much love from Romania 💚

He played that role perfectly

Thank you 👍

We just googled it! Andrei had a great giggle out of it. And said "I don't mind, he looks cool" 😂

Lovely! We are happy you joined us on our musical journey. Warm greetings from Romania 💚

Thank you for the info. Peace and love 💚

My town was ransomed and burned by the Confederate army. Horrible war.