Acadian Driftwood

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Figure of Thomas Davies, 1758 Acadian Driftwood - ballad of the Canadian band The Band, which was featured on the 1975 Northern Lights-Southern Cross. Robbie Robertson wrote it, sang Levon Helm and Rick Danko. The track is under the Southern Rock genre, with North American North American content. It is the second after The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down song the group whose theme is to entangle the average individual into a whirlwind of historical events. The background for the song was the fight of the Akadaians with the British government in 1755-1758. The inhabitants of the academy (once the French colony) refused in 1710 to obey the Great Britain, resulting in the 1755 Governor Charles Lawrence displaced seven thousand inhabitants of the colony, burning their farms, exposing them to numerous sea catastrophes and diseases. In 1758, the British army hit the fortified and fortified city of Louisbourg by four thousand Frenchmen.

The song describes these events from a human perspective, in which the feeling of local patriotism speaks. The track is maintained in warm, optimistic tone, emphasized by frequent inserts describing the arcade image of Akademia. Robbie Robertson wrote his song inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline: A Tale of Academia, 1847. It is interesting that Robertson will return to this poem later on by writing his country-folk song, Evangeline, which The Band was performed by Emmylou Harris.

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