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Electric Dirt
Type:studio
Artist:Levon Helm
Cover:Electric Dirt - Levon cover.jpg
Released:June 30, 2009
Studio:Levon Helm Studio, Woodstock, New York
Genre:Roots rock, country rock, Americana, R&B
Length:43 min
Label:Dirt Farmer/Vanguard
Producer:Larry Campbell
Prev Title:Dirt Farmer
Prev Year:2007

Electric Dirt is the final studio album from American musician Levon Helm, released in 2009. It is the follow-up to his Grammy-winning 2007 album Dirt Farmer. In Uncuts list of the 150 best albums between 2000 through 2009, Electric Dirt was listed 80th. It won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, an inaugural category in 2010.[1] The track "Growin' Trade", cowritten with Larry Campbell, was Helm's first cowritten song since his debut solo album, Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars.

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

iTunes bonus track

  2. "That's Alright" (Arthur Crudup) – 4:53 (from Souvenir Vol. 1)

Personnel

Production notes

Notes and References

  1. News: Review: Grammy Awards: List of Winners . . 2 July 2010 . February 1, 2010.

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