Music CD - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (30th Anniversary Edition)

	Music CD: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (30th Anniversary Edition) Artist: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band List Price: $26.98 Our Price: $14.69 Your Save: $ 12.29 ( 46% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks: 1. Grand Ole Opry Song 2. Keep On The Sunny Side 3. Nashville Blues 4. You Are My Flower 5. The Precious Jewel 6. Dark As A Dungeon 7. Tennessee Stud 8. Black Mountain Rag 9. Wreck On The Highway 10. The End Of The World 11. I Saw The Light 12. Sunny Side Of The Mountain 13. Nine Pound Hammer 14. Losin' You (Might Be The Best Thing Yet) 15. Honky Tonkin' 16. You Don't Know My Mind 17. My Walkin' Shoes
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724353514822 Format: Original recording reissued Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: 2002-03-26 Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A time capsule of excellent musicians and music. Comment: This set is an absolute necessity for any lover of American "hill-country" music. There are songs on here that will probaly never be heard anywhere else. This is a truly excellent selection of "old songs", many sung and played for a century or more in the hils of Appalachia. The Doc Watson guitar work (and singing) is incredible, Merle Travis, ditto, Vassar Clements lends his impeccable fiddle work to nearly every tune, and Maybelle Carter showed that her picking (that influenced so many players) was still was a solid force in her later years. I don't enjoy much fast bluegrass (Foggy Mountain Breakdown-type songs), but it's just my own preference. Disc 2 does contain some fast cuts, but musically, it's truly fine. Customer Rating: Summary: Great price for this product! Comment: This is a classic recording, and for the price I don`t think you will any better deal anywhere else. It was also delivered within several days and was in excellent condition. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Recording Comment: This is a great recording, a definite must-have for the library of any fan of bluegrass music. The fidelity is very good. Customer Rating: Summary: home again in my heart Comment: I really enjoy how The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is able to mix Classic Country with Bluegrass and constantly come up with hit after hit after hit. If you're a fan of them then I don't have to tell. If you're not, and enjoy this type of music you will appreciate this double CD. Some of my favorite songs include: Tennessee Stud & Pins And Needles (In My Heart). This is what music sounds like! Customer Rating: Summary: glad to have it on disc Comment: had this album set and glad it was offered on cd's,now i can whistle the tunes again!! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: In an age when the old-timey soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? sells 5 million copies, it's hard to imagine how revolutionary Will the Circle Be Unbroken seemed upon its release 30 years ago. The triple album (now rereleased as a two-CD set) paired many of Nashville's venerable country and bluegrass performers (Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Vassar Clements) with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, or as Acuff called them, "a bunch of long-haired West Coast boys." The idea seemed nearly as foreign as Martians setting down in Tennessee, but the Dirt Band were Colorado hippies steeped in the genre, so there was no disputing the authenticity of the music, or its earthy appeal. Aside from the sheer joy of the performances (listen to Jimmy Martin's "whoop" on "Sunny Side of the Mountain"), there's great fun in hearing Roy Acuff give the boys a lesson in doing a song right the first time (and using the word hell before launching into a religious number). And Mother Maybelle wafts through like a benevolent ghost, or at least a patron saint. One caveat: The boast of four previously unreleased tracks is balderdash, since three are really between-track conversations and rehearsals, and only "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" qualifies as a real song. But that's nitpicking. Buy it. Love it. Wallow in it. O brother, that's country music! --Alanna Nash