Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Margo Price - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (live)

Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Margo Price, and Joe Henry play a cover of the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at The Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, California on February 8, 2025. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down was written by Robbie Robertson and appeared on The Band's second studio album, The Band (1969). Joan Baez released a cover of the song on her twelfth studio album, Blessed Are... (1971), and it became her highest-charting single. Other artists covering the song include Johnny Cash, John Denver, The Allman Brothers Band, The Charlie Daniels Band, The Zac Brown Band, Black Crowes, Solomon Burke, and Jerry Garcia. Joining Raitt, Harris, Cash, Price, and Henry onstage were David Piltch (bass), Gabe Harris (drums), Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar), and Jason Crosby (keyboards / fiddle). This was a special one-night benefit concert called Sweet Relief Presents: A Night To Honor Joan Baez. To donate to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, visit https://www.sweetrelief.org/general-f.... ====================== Official Show Announcement: Sweet Relief Musicians Fund announces an upcoming benefit concert, celebrating the legacy of legendary folk singer Joan Baez, on February 8, at Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. Confirmed performers include Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Hozier, Rosanne Cash, Margo Price, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Morello, Joe Henry, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal with surprise guests and additional performers to be announced shortly. Joan Baez has endured as a musical force of nature for over six decades, with an unwavering commitment to social activism and the arts. Her classic early 1960s folk recordings attracted a generation who carried songs like “House Of the Rising Sun” and “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You” into the rock lexicon. She was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017. Though Baez stopped touring in 2019, she has been the subject of the film, I Am The Noise, and has released a book of drawings, Am I Pretty When I Fly?, and a book of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her To Dance. Emmylou Harris shares “So happy to be a part of celebrating my dear friend Joan Baez!" Aric Steinberg, Executive Director at Sweet Relief Musicians Fund adds, “We’re beyond thrilled to celebrate 30 years of Sweet Relief while honoring the great Joan Baez and her amazing career. Joan has supported our charity for many years, and it’s a privilege to honor her this year alongside so many incredible artists." "Joan Baez is a mountain on our landscape, and has been for the entirety of my lifetime. As much as any artist I know, she has dismantled the wall between public artistry and personal conviction—investing each with the other, to create a body of work that, in the words of Woody Guthrie, "comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.” Musical Director, Joe Henry, adds and continues, “What a singular honor, then, for all us to gather in honor of her—and to benefit the heroic organization Sweet Relief, that provides financial assistance to musicians in health crisis. Come February 8th at San Francisco's historic Masonic Auditorium—in her name, and in these wicked times— we will raise our voices as Joan has." The event is part of an ongoing series of shows presented by Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides services and financial assistance for career musicians and music industry professionals. Grants are earmarked for medical and vital living expenses, including insurance premiums, prescriptions, medical treatment and operative procedures, housing costs, food costs, utilities, and other basic necessities. ======================= The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics: Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May the tenth, Richmond had fell It's a time I remember, oh so well The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "La, la, la" Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E.Lee" Now I don't mind choppin' wood And I don't care if the money's no good Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest But they should never have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "La, la, la" See upcoming rock shows Get tickets for your favorite artists Like my father before me, I will work the land And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand He was just eighteen, proud and brave But a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat Written by Robbie Robertson