Electric Dirt by Levon Helm : CD released on 6/30/09

Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music / Vanguard Records) is the second album in the last two years of the American musical treasure Levon Helm. His predecessor, the Grammy-winning Dirt Farmer, his first solo LP in the fourth century, followed Levon near miraculous recovery from throat cancer, and as such represented a new lease for the life of the legendary artist, who rose to attention as the drummer and singer for Levon and the Hawks, which later became the band. Electric Dirt again finds Levon vol tradition in connection with the country and the people, but this record is deeper and wider, with gospel, blues and soul elements into a girder set of originals and carefully selected outside songs. As with Dirt Farmer, multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell took the reigns as producer and the album was recorded in "The Barn" - Levon Helm Studios. "Our goal was to show the honesty, innocence and purity of the record Dirt Farmer which represents a genuine element of what Levon is all about, but also expand on that deeper and explore the gold mine of Levon's musical artistry" says Camp

Song Listings :

1. Tennessee Jed
2. Move Along Train
3. Growing Trade
4. Golden Bird
5. Stuff You Gotta Watch
6. White Dove
7. King Fish
8. You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
9. When I Go Away
10. Heaven's Pearls
11. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free

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