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That monument won’t stand, no matter how much concrete

I think it’s time we laid hate in its grave

Unlike the others below me, who took a rebel stand Unlike my father before me, who I will never understand This year, as hateful monuments fall and Black Lives Matter protesters demand justice, that paradox has finally given out, and James - who released an excellent solo debut, Singing for My Supper, earlier this year - decided to do something about it. The words that Robbie Robertson wrote from the perspective of a poor Tennessee farmer in 1865 have always been hard to square with the Band’s place in the generally progressive world of 1960s and ’70s folk and rock music. For more than 50 years, it’s been the contradiction at the heart of the Band’s catalog - a poignant song, sung with passion and grit by the late Levon Helm, yet ultimately a vehicle for a harmful, racist American myth. James had volunteered to perform “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” the troubling requiem for the Confederate cause from 1969’s The Band. “I had to have a little bit of liquid courage before we got up there.” “I was terrified,” says the Alabama singer-songwriter, 26. When Early James took the stage as a guest on Marcus King’s Last Waltz tribute show, which aired as a paid stream from Nashville this week, he wasn’t entirely sure of himself.

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