The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”

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