{"id":2145,"date":"2014-05-22T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T00:52:04","slug":"levon-helm-and-the-dixie-hummingbirds-when-i-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/2014\/05\/levon-helm-and-the-dixie-hummingbirds-when-i-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Levon Helm and the Dixie Hummingbirds: When I Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A few years before his death, Levon Helm of The Band recorded an album called Electric Dirt<\/em>; and on that album he sang a surprisingly upbeat song about dying called \u201cWhen I Go Away\u201d. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>For his sake, I hope he was indeed \u201cbound for glory\u201d when he went away. <\/p>\n<p>More recently, I\u2019ve been hearing another version of the song by an all-male gospel group called the Dixie Hummingbirds. There\u2019s no very good video of it on YouTube; the only one I could find is a video shot at a bookstore where the group was appearing; and I think they just played the album over the loudspeakers. But it\u2019s <em>so good<\/em> that you ought to listen to it anyway. You\u2019ll want to start at 3:00 in; before that it\u2019s just talking.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dixie Hummingbirds - Square Books - Recordings When I Go Away.wmv\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgzAUGOpOVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years before his death, Levon Helm of The Band recorded an album called Electric Dirt; and on that album he sang a surprisingly upbeat song about dying called \u201cWhen I Go Away\u201d. 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