Album
Dirt Farmer
2007 · Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Dirt Farmer is a Country album by Levon Helm, originally released in 2007. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked.
About
After surviving throat cancer, Levon Helm’s raspy Arkansas drawl sounds noticeably weathered on 2007’s <i>Dirt Farmer</i>, his first solo album since 1982. But what’s more apparent is the top-shelf songs that comprise this GRAMMY®-winning album (it took Best Traditional Folk Album in February of 2008). Mostly acoustic, it opens with a gritty cover of the old traditional tune “False Hearted Lover Blues” where Helm’s dusty croon and inimitable tight-but-somehow-loose drumming style are instantly recognizable from his tenure with the Band. Helm gives the Tracy Schwarz-penned title-track some subtle Cajun flavoring with droning accordions and ramshackle junkyard percussion banging and clanging under crisp fiddle tones. With ample help from his daughter Amy and Bob Dylan’s sideman Larry Campbell, they turn Steve Earle’s “The Mountain” into a hillbilly hymn. Buddy and Julie Miller chime-in on a closing cover of their Americana lullaby “Wide River to Cross.”
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Tracklist
- 1False Hearted Lover Blues3:28
- 2Poor Old Dirt Farmer3:51
- 3The Mountain3:34
- 4Little Birds4:40
- 5The Girl I Left Behind3:34
- 6Calvary4:52
- 7Anna Lee3:41
- 8Got Me A Woman3:10
- 9A Train Robbery5:27
- 10Single Girl, Married Girl3:17
- 11The Blind Child3:25
- 12Feelin' Good3:30
- 13Wide River To Cross4:51
Sound DNA
- Country
- Americana & Roots
- stripped-back
- pastoral
- nostalgic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Amy HelmBACKING VOCALS, PERCUSSION DRUMS HARMONY VOCALS
- Brian MitchellACCORDION ACCORDION, BACKING VOCALS PIANO
- Buddy MillerHARMONY VOCALS
- Byron IsaacsBASS BASS, BACKING VOCALS BASS, PERCUSSION, BACKING VOCALS
- George RecilePERCUSSION
- Glenn PatschaORGAN PUMP ORGAN
- Julie MillerHARMONY VOCALS
- Larry CampbellACOUSTIC GUITAR ACOUSTIC GUITAR, FIDDLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR, FIDDLE, BACKING VOCALS
- Levon HelmVOCALS VOCALS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR VOCALS, DRUM
- Teresa WilliamsBACKING VOCALS HARMONY VOCALS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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