The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
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Artist: The Nitty Gritty Dirt BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-08-05
Music Label: Disky Records
Soundtracks:
- Grand Ole Opry Song
- Keep on the Sunny Side - Mother Maybelle Carter, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Nashville Blues
- You Are My Flower
- Precious Jewel - Roy Acuff, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Dark as a Dungeon - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Merle Travis
- Tennessee Stud - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Doc Watson
- Black Mountain Rag
- Wreck on the Highway - Roy Acuff, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- End of the World
- I Saw the Light - Roy Acuff, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Sunny Side of the Mountain
- Nine Pound Hammer
- Losin' You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet)
- Honky Tonkin'
- You Don't Know My Mind
- My Walkin' Shoes
- Lonesome Fiddle Blues
- Cannonball Rag - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Merle Travis
- Avalanche
- Flint Hill Special
- Togary Mountain
- Earl's Breakdown
- Orange Blossom Special - Vassar Clements, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Wabash Cannonball
- Lost Highway
- Doc Watson & Merle Travis First Meeting (Dialogue)
- Way Downtown - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Doc Watson
- Down Yonder - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Doc Watson
- Pins and Needles (In My Heart) - Roy Acuff, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Honky Tonk Blues
- Sailin' on to Hawaii
- I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
- I Am a Pilgrim
- Wildwood Flower - Mother Maybelle Carter, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Soldier's Joy
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Both Sides Now
Free Music Notes for Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Free Music Review: Sangin' 'bout that old Kentucky blue...
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard this masterpiece when I was in college. Some friends put on the 3-record set (Remember records?) and sang along with Wabash Cannonball I think it was. After listening to the whole collection, I got the set...and got the CDs for my birthday years later.I don't think of it as a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album, maybe unfortunately for them. Indeed, I'm not that much of a bluegrass fan (having had a housemate for a while who over-played the banjo.) But the music of this collection is fabulous. Just to listen to Doc Watson is incredible. (How can a guy pic that fast?) The songs are, I'm told, classics among the bluegrass repertoire.
From tunes Doc Watson's picking of which would make Alvin Lee jealous, to sentimental tunes, especially the title number, a kind of bluegrass requiem, you can't go wrong. I'm just now looking at the names of the 38 tunes on the set. Fantastic.
The performers are talking between the numbers too. Not frivolity but musical detail. They really are professionals despite their lack of credentials.
Oh, and I heard reference to the album--which I am proud to own--on public radio which was discussing the best-selling soundtrack to "O Brother, Where Art Thou," also bluegrass. They felt the soundtrack was reminiscent of this collection (which was assumed to be a distant memory to listeners.)
Anyway, between the classic numbers, and the classic performers, who other reviewers have named, I can't recommend the album strongly enough.
Be prepared, though, to hum tunes that strike a chord with you after you've listened to it. (I got in trouble where I worked as I listened to it, then sat at a computer humming and whistling all day! And I wasn't humming "Taps"!)
...You are my flower....that's bloomin' in the mountain so high....
Oh...sorry.
Get it, and enjoy it.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken Poster
Remastered reissue of their 1989 album for Warner Brothers, that year's recipient of the CMA's 'Album Of The Year' & winner of three Grammys. Star-studded performers on it include: the late John Denver, Johnny Cash, Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Chris Hillman, Bruce Hornsby, Chet Atkins, Roger McGuinn and John Prine. Also features additional sleeve notes and faithfully restored artwork. 20 tracks total. 1998 BGO release. The full title is 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken Volume 2'.A history-making event for both popular and country music, this album brought together the hippieish Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with some of the all-time legends of country and bluegrass music, including Roy Acuff, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, and Mother Maybelle Carter herself. It may not sound earth-shaking now, but in the days before Johnny Cash covered Soundgarden songs, there wasn't too much mixing going on between Nashville and the longhair camp. The result: an epochal meeting of minds exploring the joys of gospel, bluegrass, and old-time country music. Check out traditional acoustic gems like "Wildwood Flower," "Orange Blossom Special," "Soldier's Joy," and of course the heart-wrenching title track. Sixteen years later, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two made for a worthy sequel to this seminal cross-cultural experiment. --Mary Park
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