sad huh...think only Garths left of the original members, great Band

Van was great but he didn’t steal the show. Everybody was on fire that night. Joni, Dylan, Muddy, The Hawk, the list goes on. Levon belting The night they drove old Dixie down still gives me chills.

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Curses the soul Of the Mississippi Queen

Robbie did not celebrate Robert E. Lee. He wrote the song after visiting Levon's family and talking to Levon's dad. He then went to the library and did some research. All the song is saying war and it's aftermath is terrible, it leaves people devastated. It could be about any war, he just wrote it about the Civil war. And what does Robbie being Mohawk have to do with anything, he wa also half Jewish.

@@hannejeppesen1809 Him being Mohawk is ironic considering the effects of the Civil War on his people and many other indigenous nations. And it does celebrate the south from the perspective of that guy, who was literally fighting a war to keep kidnapping Black Americans and Africans. The idea that there was some other noble reason is another issue. Just rich people who lived off the forced labor of kidnapped Africans using racism to convince the poor to fight their war also.

I read Robbie's book and have listened to several interviews with him, he was not a racists. He also wrote a very moving song about the Arcadian in Canada and their plight. I don't see the song celebrating the south, I see it as a song or story painting a picture of what happens to everyday people in the aftermath of war, no matter which side you were on. I was born and raised in Denmark, my parents lived through 5 years of the German Occupation, can't say I had a lot of sympathy for the Germans, but as I studies history, and after coming to the US had several German friends, I realized how devastating the war was them as well, although many voted for and supporter Hitler. Not my German girl friend though, her mother hid some Jews for a time.@@RayyanKesnan

@@hannejeppesen1809 I don't know if I can agree about the song, but I agree that Robbie's not a racist, I never thought so. In these narratives though there exist certain harmful culturally inherited ideas and if they're not challenged that's problematic, and that's what I see here. It's not a legitimate struggle between two sides that both suffered, it's the consequences of a horrible ideology and the society that fosters it and people who fought against it.

I abhor rasicsm of any kind. However, when it comes to movies, songs, comedy and literature I give them a certain artistic license. Some objected to the Bruce Springsteen lyric from Born in USA "they send me off to a foreign land to kill the yellow man", obviously some thought "Yellow man" was offensive, if he had spoken that line I would agree, but he was trying to get the lyrics of rime. @@RayyanKesnan

Right but if he got past her to quickly we wouldn't have that fantastic song!

Robbie who wrote this song, said in an interview "supposedly time heals all wounds, except sometimes it doesn't, this is one of those times", he also wrote it with Rick in mind feeling Rick could sing it without it coming off as self pity. He was right.