Product Details
- Artist: Levon Helm
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0015707984423
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- Label: Vanguard Records
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- Manufacturer: Vanguard Records
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Vanguard Records
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- Release Date: 2007-10-30
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- Studio: Vanguard Records
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- Title: Dirt Farmer
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- UPC: 015707984423
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: 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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Customer Reviews
Levon Helms Dirt Farmer
I love this cd. If you like 'Oh brother where art thou' you'll like this. Very entertaining lyrics and I like to listen to it when I am cooking in the kitchen.
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Easily one of the best albums I've bought
I purchased this album basically on a whim. Levon Helm sang one of my favorite songs ever with The Band ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"), so I thought I'd give this album a shot. I am really glad I did. Even with his voice not at 100% as he still recovers from throat cancer, his strength, wisdom, tenacity, earnestness, and just plain talent come through with every reedy note. Amazing. Anyone who is interested in keeping American traditional music alive should buy this album and listen to it again and again.
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Awsome
Classic Americana Music, An Instant Classic A Down Home Felling Music
"Real Music" JG
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Dirt Farmer
Levon Helm is awesome. Lyrics are great and the music flows and hits every lick.
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Roots Music at its best
This is my favorite album of the past two years. That 's saying alot because many fine albums have been pressed. However Levon Helm captures the soul of America and sings with a heartfelt passion very seldom heard. Bravo to Leon
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