Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
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Artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Some of Shelly's Blues
- Prodigal's Return
- The Cure
- Travelin' Mood
- Chicken Reel
- Yukon Railroad
- Livin' Without You
- Clinch Mountain Backstep
- Rave On
- Billy in the Low Ground
- Jesse James
- Uncle Charlie Interview
- Mr. Bojangles
- Opus 36
- Santa Rosa
- Propinquity
- Uncle Charlie
- Randy Lynn Rag
- House at Pooh Corner
- Swanee River
- Uncle Charlie Interview #2/The End/Spanish Fandango
- Mississippi Rain [#][*]
- What Goes On [#][*]
Free Music Notes for Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
Free Music Review: One of Rock's 10-best American albums
Hit: 5 Stars
Albums that change things, define genres and otherwise make profound statements don't come along too often. You're lucky if lightning strikes once. With the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, it hit twice -- with "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and before that with this incredible album, "Uncle Charlie."
From the first second of this album, as John McEuen's slammin' banjo kicks off Mike Nesmith's "Some of Shelley's Blues," you know you've discovered something special.
Producer Bill McEuen just turned on the machines and let the band cut loose, and when it was done he pieced together the songs in an order that at times seems almost poetic. I'm tempted here to say that this is a "concept" album but I'll be darned if I could state exactly what that concept is.
What you find is a band that could play literally anything from country to bluegrass to rock to blues to folk and yes, even classical. Plus, you get the band's most lasting hit, their take on Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles," which is still considered the standard take on this song.
The band also champions such songwriters here as Nesmith and Randy Newman, and in turn deliver what are probably considered the paramount versions of those songs, too. Their super-loud version of Buddy Holly's "Rave On" ( a song I saw them use more than once during encores to let the audience know that they were tired and it's time to go home now -- they'd crank the amps to ear-blistering levels for this one) is one that I'm sure would have made Mr. Holly think, "man, why didn't I play it like that?"
John McEuen does stuff on this CD that still drops my jaw when I listen to it. His banjo playing here rivals anything else he's ever done, even the great, good-as-Scruggs's stuff on "Circle."
I have never met anyone who didn't like this album and I probably never will. You'll like it, too. It's timeless. It's wonderful. And it's absolutely perfect.
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