Electric Dirt
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Electric Dirt is a 2009 album
by American
musician Levon Helm
. It is the follow-up to his Grammy-winning 2007 album Dirt Farmer
. In Uncut
's list of the 150 best albums between 2000 until 2009, Electric Dirt was listed 80th. It won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
, an inaugural category in 2010.
2009 in music
The following is a list of notable events and releases in 2009 in music. Susan Boyle's album I Dreamed a Dream became the biggest selling album in the world for 2009, selling 8.3 million copies in five weeks; more than any other artist's in the whole year...
by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
musician Levon Helm
Levon Helm
Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm , is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequent lead and backing vocalist for The Band....
. It is the follow-up to his Grammy-winning 2007 album Dirt Farmer
Dirt Farmer
Dirt Farmer is an album by American musician Levon Helm, former drummer for The Band. The album was released on October 30, 2007 on Vanguard Records, and was Helm's first studio album since 1982. The album contains covers of songs by Steve Earle and J. B. Lenoir, and features his daughter Amy, as...
. In Uncut
UNCUT (magazine)
Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...
's list of the 150 best albums between 2000 until 2009, Electric Dirt was listed 80th. It won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
The Grammy Award for Best Americana Album is an honor presented to recording artists for quality albums in the Americana music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
, an inaugural category in 2010.
Track listing
- "Tennessee Jed" (Jerry GarciaJerry GarciaJerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
, Robert HunterRobert Hunter (lyricist)Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
) - 5:58 - "Move Along Train" (Roebuck Staples) - 3:22
- "Growing Trade" (Levon Helm, Larry Campbell) - 4.22
- "Golden Bird" (Happy TraumHappy TraumHappy Traum is an American folk musician who started playing music in the Fifties. Happy is most famously known as one half of Happy and Artie Traum, a duo he began with his brother...
) - 5:11 - "Stuff You Gotta Watch" (Muddy WatersMuddy WatersMcKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
) - 3:38 - "White Dove" (Carter StanleyCarter StanleyCarter Glen Stanley was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player. He formed the Stanley Brothers band together with his brother Ralph. The Stanley Brothers are generally acknowledged as the first band after Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys to play in the bluegrass genre...
) - 3:29 - "Kingfish" (Randy NewmanRandy NewmanRandall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
) - 4:24 - "You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had" (Muddy Waters) - 4:01
- "When I Go Away" (Larry Campbell) - 4:32
- "Heaven’s Pearls" (Anthony Leone, Byron Isaacs, Fiona McBain, Amy Helm, Glenn Patscha) - 4:09
- "I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel To Be Free" (Richard Carroll Lamp, Willy E. Taylor) - 3:25
- "That's Alright" (iTunesITunesiTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
only) – 4:5