Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Bang Bang Bang

Styles: Vocal, Country, Big Band
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:34
Size: 85,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:56) 1. If This Ain't Love
(3:41) 2. Bang, Bang, Bang
(4:29) 3. Singing To The Scarecrow
(3:03) 4. Forget The Job
(3:58) 5. It's About Time
(2:37) 6. Down The Road
(3:22) 7. Nickel In The Well
(3:30) 8. Rent, Groceries and Gasoline
(2:44) 9. Dry Town
(2:31) 10. The Monkey Song
(3:37) 11. Southbound Train

While it pales in comparison with their classic early '70s releases, Bang Bang Bang is far from being a lesser latter-day effort from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The group are seasoned professionals, capable of making even second-rate material sound fine, which is fortunate since there's a little bit too much filler on the record. Nevertheless, it's a pleasure to hear the group play, and there are moments where they nearly recapture the magic of yesteryear, which may make the album worthwhile for dedicated fans.~Thom Owens https://www.allmusic.com/album/bang-bang-bang-mw0000035101

Bang Bang Bang

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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Circlin' Back: Celebrating 50 Years

Styles: Vocal, Country, Big Band
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:27
Size: 181,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. You Ain't Going Nowhere
(3:54)  2. Grandpa Was a Carpenter
(3:58)  3. Paradise
(3:35)  4. My Walkin' Shoes
(4:54)  5. Tennessee Stud
(4:03)  6. Nine Pound Hammer
(3:49)  7. Buy for Me the Rain
(6:08)  8. These Days
(3:51)  9. Truthful Parson Brown
(4:17) 10. Keep on the Sunny Side
(4:25) 11. Catfish John
(4:41) 12. An American Dream
(4:36) 13. Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)
(4:43) 14. Mr. Bojangles
(3:53) 15. Fishin' in the Dark
(3:48) 16. Bayou Jubilee/Sally Was a Goodun
(3:58) 17. Jambalaya
(5:18) 18. Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Friends always meant something special to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band  their 1972 breakthrough, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, was filled with them so it only makes sense that the group rounded up a bunch of pals for a 50th anniversary concert held at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on September 14, 2015. Released a year later, Circlin' Back: Celebrating 50 Years does indeed play like a celebration. Revisiting an equal portion of hits and traditional tunes, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band sound as deep and wise as the Nashville veterans did when they guested on Will the Circle Be Unbroken, but the nice thing about the Circlin' Back concert is that it takes into account the smoother hits the band had in the '80s: Rodney Crowell and Alison Krauss sit in on "An American Dream" and Jimmy Ibbotson plays on "Fishin' in the Dark." Here, they're presented in stripped-down arrangements that nevertheless echo the soft rock gloss of the hit singles, and when combined with rollicking bluegrass, rustic folk, and straight-ahead country, it results in a full portrait of what the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is all about. Better still, Circlin' Back is just a good time: as John Prine, Vince Gill, Sam Bush, Jackson Browne, and Jerry Jeff Walker take the stage, the entire thing feels like a party which, of course, is what it was. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine http://www.allmusic.com/album/circlin-back-celebrating-50-years-mw0002973136

Circlin' Back: Celebrating 50 Years

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