Genres: Progressive Bluegrass, Progressive Country, Country-Rock, New Acoustic, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Bluegrass, AM Pop Active: 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1965 in Long Beach, CA
Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, The Everly Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Beatles, Webb Pierce, The Band, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Jimmie Rodgers, Buck Owens, The Carter Family, Chet Atkins, Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers Michael Nesmith, Poco, Linda Ronstadt, The Band, John Hartford, Neil Young, Hearts and Flowers, Lewis & Clarke Expedition, Gosdin Brothers, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Dillards, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jimmy Buffett, Steve Young, Highway 101, Exile, Alabama, Ian Matthews, The Bellamy Brothers Jimmy Buffett, Delevantes, Alabama, Whiskey Falls, Old Crow Medicine Show, Lonestar, Randy Owen, Charlie Daniels, Diamond Rio, Brooks & Dunn, Love and Theft |  |
Founded in California during 1965, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has lasted longer than virtually any other country-based rock group of their era. Younger contemporaries of the Byrds, they played an almost equally important role in the transformation from folk-rock into country-rock, and were an influence on such bands as the Eagles and Alabama. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's beginnings lay with the New Coast Two, a folk duo consisting of Jeff Hanna (guitar, vocals) and Bruce Kunkel (guitar, washtub bass), formed while both were in high school in the early '60s. By the time the two were college students, they were having informal jams at a Santa Monica, CA, guitar shop called McCabe's. It was there that they met Ralph Barr (guitar, washtub bass), Les Thompson (vocals, mandolin, bass, guitar, banjo, percussion), Jimmie Fadden (harmonica, vocals, drums, percussion), and Jackson Browne (guitar, vocals). This lineup became the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in late 1965, and began playing jug band music at local clubs.
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Release: September 22, 2009
Label: Sugar Hill Records
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Release: December 18, 2007
Label: EDI Video
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