The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
August 11, 2021 6:32AM CDT
Congratulations to the Dirt Band! This week marks 50 years since the band recorded “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” the 38-track set in six focused days at Nashville’s Woodland Sound Studios. Originally released on three vinyl discs in the fall of 1972, it peak at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. People heard about it through word-of-mouth, Dirt Band concerts and significant critical attention, given in great part because it was a grand experiment that managed to cross multiple gaps — generational, cultural, stylistic and geographical — in an era when America was divided by urban violence and the Vietnam War. Ready the full story Here