The night they drove old dixie down

• ALBANY, N.Y.
(Huffington Post)
• With songs like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Weight and Up on Cripple Creek, The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create a sound that seemed as authentically American as a Mathew Brady photograph or a Mark Twain short story.
(Seattle Times)
• He not only sang The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, but inhabited it, becoming the Confederate Virgil Caine, hungry, just barely alive; his brother killed by the Yankees; the South itself in ruins.
(Houston Chronicle)
• GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Levon Helm, with songs such as The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Weight and Up on Cripple Creek, was the foundation of Bob Dylan's backup group that became The Band, one of rock's most legendary acts.
(MLive.com)
• He could be mournful, calling up ghosts, as he did in The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and the half-chanted chorus of King Harvest (Has Surely Come).
(CNN)
• It featured Helm singing lead vocals on songs like The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Levons touch was so delicate, so deft, that he gave you more than just a beat - he gave the music a pulse, Scorsese said in a statement.
(TheWrap)
• Levon Helm, the former singing drummer and mandolin player for The Band whose Arkansas Mississippi Delta drawl added authenticity to songs like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, died at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City at 71.
(Whittier Daily News)