Electric Dirt

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Electric Dirt
Electric Dirt - Levon cover.jpg
Studio album by Levon Helm
Released June 30, 2009
Recorded Levon Helm Studio, Woodstock, NY
Genre Folk
Length 43 min
Label Dirt Farmer/Vanguard
Producer Larry Campbell
Levon Helm chronology
Dirt Farmer (2007)String Module Error: Match not foundString Module Error: Match not found Electric Dirt (2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Music Box 4/5 stars[2]
The New Yorker (favorable)[3]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[4]
Uncut 4/5 stars[5]

Electric Dirt is American musician Levon Helm's final studio album, released in 2009. 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.[6]

Track listing

  1. "Tennessee Jed" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:58
  2. "Move Along Train" (Roebuck Staples) – 3:22
  3. "Growin' Trade" (Levon Helm, Larry Campbell) – 4:22
  4. "Golden Bird" (Happy Traum) – 5:11
  5. "Stuff You Gotta Watch" (Muddy Waters) – 3:38
  6. "White Dove" (Carter Stanley) – 3:29
  7. "Kingfish" (Randy Newman) – 4:24
  8. "You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had" (Muddy Waters) – 4:01
  9. "When I Go Away" (Larry Campbell) – 4:32
  10. "Heaven’s Pearls" (Anthony Leone, Byron Isaacs, Fiona McBain, Amy Helm, Glenn Patscha) – 4:09
  11. "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Richard Carroll Lamp, Willy E. Taylor) – 3:25
  12. "That's Alright" (Arthur Crudup, iTunes only) – 4:53

References

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  2. Music Box review
  3. The New Yorker review
  4. Rolling Stone review
  5. Uncut review
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Productions Notes

Cover Art Conception: Levon Helm
Cover Art Production: Michael (Mike) DuBois
Photos: Ahron R. Foster
Layout & Design: Carrie Smith


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