Artist: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Title: Circlin' Back: Celebrating 50 Years
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: NGDB Records
Genre: Country
Quality: Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 77:27 min
Total Size: 180 MB
Tracklist
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01. You Ain't Going Nowhere
02. Grandpa Was a Carpenter
03. Paradise
04. My Walkin' Shoes
05. Tennessee Stud
06. Nine Pound Hammer
07. Buy for Me the Rain
08. These Days
09. Truthful Parson Brown
10. Keep on the Sunny Side
11. Catfish John
12. An American Dream
13. Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)
14. Mr. Bojangles
15. Fishin' in the Dark
16. Bayou Jubilee/Sally Was a Goodun
17. Jambalaya
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
