In the tradition of The Band with a southern feel | Electric Dirt

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	• Electric Dirt Levon Helm Vanguard Records, 2009 average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent CD

This CD is tremendous! Buy it - along with Levon Helm's Dirt Farmer. You'll be glad you did! Both won grammy awards!

In the tradition of The Band with a southern feel

I haven't found any desert island tracks as yet but Levon's album is true to his roots with classy accompanying musicians and a feel good sound.

Good CD

This is another good CD from Levon Helm. He delves into a combination of roots music from blues, folk and Americana.

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More great Levon

Wonderful stuff. One of the great voices in American music continues to amaze. From the country beauty of "White Dove" and "When I Go Away" to the rollicking "Kingfish" (when did you last hear a song about Huey Long?) the album shifts gears effortlessly. Great band and vocal backup too.

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Old Levon sounds great

If you liked Levon Helm's vocals on the Last Waltz,liked the Band's music overall, also liked the country-style blues and country-folk that influenced them, then buy this recording immediately! Levon was nearing 70 years old when he recorded this, but no worries. He always sounded kind of old; now his voice just sounds more authentic to the material, and he sings just as powerfully as ever. Very natural recording sound, many tunes featuring the same horn players- such as Howard Johnson on Tuba- who graced all the Band's live recording, and it mercifully sounds un-processed and live,as you would expect. Of course Levon helped invent rock music, taking what Elvis and Little Richard and Jerry Lee started with the vocals and moved it to the next level in the late 60's. And he is still the gold standard. If you wish you could hear one of the original founders in full voice still, then this will do it for you.

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Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records) is the second album in the last two years from American musical treasure Levon Helm. Its predecessor, the GRAMMY-winning Dirt Farmer, his first solo LP in a quarter century, followed Levon's near miraculous recovery from throat cancer, and as such represented a new lease on life for the legendary artist, who rose to prominence as the drummer and vocalist for Levon and the Hawks, which later became The Band. Electric Dirt again finds Levon steeped in tradition in his connection to the land and those who live by it, but this record goes deeper and wider, incorporating gospel, blues and soul elements in a bracing collection of originals and carefully chosen outside songs. As with Dirt Farmer, multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell took the reigns as producer and the album was recorded at "The Barn"- Levon Helm Studios. "Our objective here was to take the honesty, innocence and purity of the Dirt Farmer record which represents a true element of what Levon is all about, but also expand on that and explore deeper the goldmine of Levon's musical artistry" states Campbell.

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