Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer
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Artist: Levon HelmEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- False Hearted Lover Blues (Traditional)
- Poor Old Dirt Farmer (Traditional)
- The Mountain (Steve Earle)
- Little Birds (Traditional)
- The Girl I Left Behind (Traditional)
- Calvary (Byron Isaacs)
- Anna Lee (Laurelyn Dossett)
- Got Me A Woman (Paul Kennerley)
- A Train Robbery (Paul Kennerley)
- Single Girl, Married Girl (A. P. Carter)
- The Blind Child (Traditional)
- Feelin Good (J. B. Lenoir)
- Wide River To Cross (Buddy Miller, Julie Miller)
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Free Music Review: Beautifully played and recorded
Hit: 5 Stars
Levon Helm is a legend, no doubt about it.
Released in 2007, Dirt Farmer brings an absolutely outstanding group of musicians together. From the first chords on False Hearted Lover Blues through to the last song, the beautiful Wide River To Cross this is an album of real American music. And it sounds so lively and vibrant!
Levon is still playing those drums like he means it and his voice, even after his after his surgery for throat cancer in 1998, remains as moving as ever.
Very well produced by Larry Campbell who played with Bob Dylan during the Love & Theft period and Levon's daughter Amy Helm, Dirt Farmer should please everyone who is interested in true American folk music. Me I just can't praise this album enough!
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Levon Helm's Dirt Farmer will be releasedOctober 30 by Vanguard Records, his first solo, studio album in 25 years. The organic feel of the sessions hark back to his work with The Band and comes on the heels of a wave of attention for his Midnight Rambles, late night concerts held at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY.
It's a major landmark on a remarkable journey for Levon Helm. "The last few years have proven to me that we truly live in an age of miracles," writes Levon in the poignant liner notes. After arduous treatments for throat cancer that took away his singing voice and a fire that consumed over eighty percent of his recording studio, Helm was amazed to find both restored.
On Dirt Farmer, Helm's pays tribute to his family, singing traditional songs that he learned growing up in rural Arkansas. He also covers songs by Steve Earle and J.B. Lenoir; full of Dobros, mandolins and acoustic guitars, the album resonates deeply, honoring Levon's roots.
Multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Lyle Lovett, Solomon Burke) and Levon's daughter Amy, also a member of Ollabelle, produced and shepherded the project at "The Barn," Levon Helm Studios. Levon himself plays drums, mandolin, and acoustic guitar and provides all lead vocals.
Levon Helm's early solo albums, made in the 1970s after the Band initially broke up, were hit-and-miss affairs, but his first solo studio release in 25 years represents a rich return to his Southern roots. With co-production and musical support from daughter Amy (of Ollabelle) and multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell (long a mainstay of Bob Dylan's band), Helm gives organic unity and rough-hewn vitality to a selection of Cajun fiddle waltzes, country blues, hardscrabble folk, and some more contemporary material (from the likes of Steve Earle and Buddy and Julie Miller). Following his recovery from throat cancer, Helm's voice has a slightly different timbre, but his phrasing is unmistakable as the same vocalist who sang "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Rag Mama Rag." With Amy providing harmony and duet vocals and Levon's drumming evoking his signature work with the Band, Helm takes material from a variety of sources and makes it all his own. --Don McLeese
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