Who has heard of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band?

[madinmaryland]

My wife has never heard of them. :wtf:

[kayakjohnny]

1. I certainly have.

But also 52 years old.

Might matter.

[madinmaryland]

3. Yeah.

I'm 48 and wife is 45

:wtf:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I have, but not thought of them in years!

[GoCubsGo]

31. I think of them all the time...

A line in one of their songs says, "Augusta, Georgia is just no place to be." I live about 20 miles from Augusta, Georgia, and that line sticks in my head every time I go there, which is as seldom as I can get away with it. I can say without hesitation that the line is a gross understatement. What a shithole.

[Wapsie B]

4. Me but I'm 53.

They were big in the 70's.

[kentauros]

5. Hmm, no can't say that I have.

Are they anything like the Chemical Brothers?

[Capn Sunshine]

12. very much so

almost exactly

[kentauros]

17. That just gives me a hankering for Can:

Moonshake :D

[Zavulon]

6. Me, but I'm 46.

[blueamy66]

7. You and me going' fishin' in the dark.....

what's not to know?

[seaker]

8. Yep

I think they were featured in the Clint Eastwood film "Paint Your Wagon"

[Brickbat]

9. You mean the Nitty Ditty Nitty Gritty Great Bird?

As Bush 41 called it.

[MorningGlow]

10. Of course

Says this old fart (44)

[Orrex]

11. I haven't heard of them since early 1990

And after twenty years, I still grieve.

[blue neen]

21. Thanks for making me laugh! You slipped that right in there.

I needed that tonight. :rofl:

[Orrex]

49. Glad to oblige!

I'm just glad that someone admitted to getting the joke, such as it was.

[Betsy Ross]

13. You Bet!

Late 60's seems right, but I'm not looking them up on Wiki.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Me, but I'm old.

[RebelOne]

29. Me. But I'm older

[Brother Buzz]

15. Best thing to come out of Long beach since the Flying Fortress

Jeff Hanna was totally obsessed with obscure jug band music in high school.

[Kali]

16. yo

saw them at Celebrity Theater (revolving stage) in Phx bad in the mid to late 70's

[bluedigger]

18. Guess it's time to piss on the fire

and head on back to Bowlegs.

[JanMichael]

19. Me but I'm 41. nt.

[ellaydubya]

20. Austin, Texas 1971-72

I saw them live- a fan ever since!! Thanks for the memory.

LA:hippie: :bounce: :fistbump: :applause:

[phusion]

22. hell yea, and Marshall Tucker band

and I'm under 30...:)

My fav. Nitty Gritty song is Ripplin' Waters

[tigereye]

23. well, yes, but I"m a boomer...

[blue neen]

24. I saw them at a concert when I was in college at Clarion.

It would have been about 1975-76. Oh my, I'm so old now! :)

[Common Sense Party]

25. Who hasn't?

I mean besides your wife. And besides most anybody under the age of 40.

I can't say as I LIKE them, but I've heard them. My wife likes 'em.

[janx]

26. Delete

[Mugu]

27. Sure, but not for a long time.

[laylah]

28. One of my all time

favorites! Have seen them in person many times over the years, but then I'm a "Boomer".

[raccoon]

30. I! "Mr. Bojangles." nt

[supernova]

32. The Weight is one of my faves

I've loved it since I was little, hearig it on the Easy Rider soundtrack my brother bought. ;-)

[hippywife]

45. That wasn't this band, supernova.

That was Robbie Robertson of The Band. :hi:

[joeybee12]

33. Your wife has issues...

...next thing you're gonna tell me is something incredulous, like she likes the Cowpies! :evilgrin:

[madinmaryland]

41. Yeah. She hates football and sports in general.

:wtf:

[Sequoia]

34. I do. Maybe she's too young to remember.

[Melissa G]

35. I have!

probably most folks 'of a certain age' have.

[Democrat_in_Houston]

36. Me! I attended one of their concerts decades ago!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. 1972's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"...very famous all-star album.

Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a 1972 album officially by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, but with collaboration from many famous Bluegrass and country-western players, including Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Bashful Brother Oswald, Norman Blake, Jimmy Martin, and others. It also introduced fiddler Vassar Clements to a wider audience.

Its title comes from a song by Ada R. Habershon (famously re-arranged by A. P. Carter) and reflects how the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was trying to tie together two generations of musicians. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was a young country-rock band with a hippie look. Roy Acuff described them as "a bunch of long-haired West Coast boys." The other players were much older and more famous from the forties, fifties and sixties, primarily as old-time country and bluegrass players. Many had become known to their generation through the Grand Ole Opry. However, with the rise of rock-and-roll, the emergence of the commercial country's slick 'Nashville Sound,' and changing tastes in music, their popularity had waned somewhat from their glory years.

Every track on the album was recorded on the first or second take straight to two-track masters, so the takes are raw and unprocessed. Additionally, another tape ran continuously throughout the entire week-long recording session, and captured the dialog between the players. On the final album many of the tracks begin with the musicians discussing how to do the song or who should come in where, and provides a rare insight into the workmanship and approach that these highly-regarded musicians used to make their music, and how they decided to work together.

Originally appearing in 1972 as a three LP album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken was remastered and re-released in 2002 as a two compact disc set.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band made two subsequent albums, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2 and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 3, in an attempt to repeat the process with other historically significant musicians, but these subsequent volumes are not as widely acclaimed as the first. However, Vol. 2 won the Country Music Association's 1989 Album of the Year. In 1990, the album was celebrated on the PBS music television program Austin City Limits, which featured a performance by the full ensemble of guests on the Carter Family song, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, from the original 1972 album. <1>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Circle_Be_Unbroken

[RT Atlanta]

52. +1

This triple lp (double CD) is as much music as it is a historical snapshot of country/bluegrass music in transition.

[TheMightyFavog]

38. A PBS program about ag markets used this song as its theme for years...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnmV0Wh760

[hippywife]

46. I love, love, love that song!

I used to have their live Stars and Stripes Forever album and someone borrowed it and never returned it. I replaced it on CD about ten years ago, and then someone broke into our house a few years later and stole all of my CD's, among other things. Damn meth addicts. :mad:

[whistler162]

39. I do believe you have sufficient grounds for a divorce.....

[bikebloke]

40. I remember them.

Even remember seeing them on teevee. But I can't recall any songs...if they had more than one hit.

[KamaAina]

42. Right here.

But your wife probably feels the same way about your Cowpies "jones". :P

[WinkyDink]

43. Boomer here, so yeah.

[hippywife]

44. Heard of them?

I've seen them in concert way back in the 70's. Love them! Well, all except for that House at Pooh Corner thing. :)

[pintobean]

47. Thats weird

A few hours ago, I was at the library looking at their box set - Will The Circle Be Unbroken The Trilogy. I didn't check it out. 6 disks is a little too much Dirt.

http://www.amazon.com/Will-Circle-Be-Unbroken-Trilogy/dp/B0000C3I8P

[abq e streeter]

48. Never saw the Dirt Band, but saw John McEuen at an all day festival that included Bill Monroe

Chris Hillman too....All 3 of them ( along with all the other performers, whose names escape me 20 something years later) were magnificent. I guess not a lot of younger folks have heard of them. But then, I had an entire classroom of gifted sixth graders last year who had never heard of Kurt Cobain, so time does march on...

[laundry_queen]

50. Yep.

Fishin' in the Dark was a big thing once upon a time in my youth. My parents hated country music though, LOL, so we didn't have it. I listened to it at friends' houses.

[Vidar]

51. Of course.

[retread]

53. Buy her The Circle Unbroken . As unlikely a group of musicians that ever sat down together.

Long haired "hippies" and older "straight" living legends. It worked then and works today. One of the best ever made.

[nuxvomica]

56. +1

An awesome album, but the title was the same as the song, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Circle_Be_Unbroken

[Tuesday Afternoon]

54. checking in

because, Yes I have heard of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

[mikeytherat]

55. Mr. Bojangles' statue is in my town - I've walked past it many times.

mikey_the_rat

[timtom]

61. Just wanted to mention

"Mr. Bojangles" was written by Jerry Jeff Walker.

[Blue_In_AK]

57. I have.

Your wife doesn't know "Mr. Bojangles"??

[The Midway Rebel]

58. NGDB!

In later incarnations just the "Dirt Band". One of the first American bands to tour the old Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain. I wore out a couple of their LP's in the 70's.

Thanks for reminding me of those songs! They still play on the jukebox in my brain.

[Duppers]

59. certainly

I kinda 'accidentally' bought this decades ago:




Although I'm not a fan of country, blue grass, or anything remotely religious, I consider the album one of the best vinyls in my collection.

[timtom]

60. Of course.

And Steve Martin played banjo with them. (Not as a regular member)

[fizzgig]

62. sure have

i grew up listening to them thanks to my ma, who posted upthread :)

fishing in the dark always takes me back to my childhood

[Tony Campbell]

63. Love them!

I am mid 20's and listen to the Dirt Band... BIG FAN!

All these posts inspired me to do some research:

-at least 4 Grammys (not to mention all the nominations)
-35 albums (wow) and they just released a new one in 2009 called 'Speed of Life' www.nittygritty.com
-according to their news, on the 'The Simpson's' 20th anny show the producers used a snippet of the Dirt Bands Rendition of the theme song at some point during the show (which I think is really cool)
-lastly, they are on facebook - www.facebook.com/nittygrittydirtband


Anyone else love 'Prodigal's Return' from the album Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy?

[madinmaryland]

64. Welcome to DU!

and thanks for the information.