Now we have something new to argue about: Is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” still an appropriate song to play? Or does it glorify the Confederacy? This isn’t a new question. The ...

“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is complicated, too. Or maybe it’s not? The song expresses no political opinions, just sadness at the loss of a brother and the devastation wrought by war.

Maticsandra / Dreamstime.comWhen one student at Pennsylvania's Plum Borough School District complained that another had worn a sweatshirt with the ...

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, operates on a more liberal compass heading than much of the South. But it carries the unfortunate distinction of having hosted the Dixie Classic Fair since 1956. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Stranger than South Carolina’s politics is the nearly nativist pride many take in its nastiness. Not the good folks of the Palmetto State, but rather the politicos wh… ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Stranger than South Carolina’s politics is the nearly nativist pride many take in its nastiness.

“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 ...

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 ...

The Toronto, Canada native — whose influential music included classic rock hits like “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” — died in Los Angeles on Wednesday following ...

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 ...