As per usual, Levon Helm, has once again made a fine, fine American roots rock album with his 2009 release Electric Dirt. His voice on this album has returned to its best form in many years as he recovered from throat cancer. I ended up liking this album a little better than the stark Dirt Farmer. It sounds like a Band album with Levon Helm at the helm. There is a lot of electricity and horns on this album. The cover is even electric and colorful. I so enjoy Levon Helm's voice. He was my favorite singer in The Band as well.
I started to take notice of Levon Helm as he is a favorite of Don Imus. I listen to Don quite a bit and several years ago now he started featuring Levon and promoting Levon's Midnight Rambles which were intimate shows in which Levon headlined at his farm in New York and to raise funds to help pay his medical bills mounting from his bout with throat cancer. I was thrilled when Dirt Farmer came out and now this electrified album is out I am really pleased. The mostly covers range from the Dead's Tennessee Jed to Randy Newman's Kingfish. Levon makes them all his own too and there is not a weak cut here.
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