‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” hit No. 1 in 1969 and Rolling Stone once ranked it No. 245 on a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Since then, ...

“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” hit No. 1 in 1969, and Rolling Stone once ranked it No. 245 on a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Since then, ...

“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” was first recorded by The Band in Los Angeles and released in 1969 by Capitol Records as both a single and a track on an album that included the hit “Up ...

Robbie Robertson, The Band's lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" mined and helped reshape American ...

Robbie Robertson's songwriting credits include: "The Weight," "Up On Cripple Creek" and the "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" — a song narrated from the perspective of Confederate soldiers.

Robbie Robertson, the lead guitarist and songwriter for The Band, whose classics include “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” has died at 80 ...