The title of Dirt Does Dylan tells you everything you need to know: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band makes more than a little magic covering the songs of Bob Dylan. Dylan and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have shaped the […]
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Cosmic American Music is hard to define, and often easier to define by what it’s not. Michael Grimshaw in his essay “Redneck Religion and Shitkickin’ Saviours? Gram Parsons, Theology and Country Music” writes: “Parsons’ mission was the creation of a new way forward, […]
In 1967, the then newly formed Nitty Gritty Dirt Band scored an amiable but forgettable minor pop/rock hit with “Buy for Me the Rain,” which failed to crack the Top 40. Few listeners could have guessed at the time that […]
As my wife and I have traveled over the last 15 years, during what some would call our retirement, we’ve experienced bluegrass music as what I thought to be a national music phenomenon. Recently, I read a book called Bluegrass […]
What an embarrassment of riches we’ve gotten in terms of new releases this season, from some of the finest artists on the scene — those who have been around for decades, and those who are just finding their footing. This […]
Sixteen years into the annual Americana Music Association Conference and Festival, the event shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, what attendees used to casually refer to as a sort of miniature SXSW gathering for roots music people has […]
Americana’s premiere band as they were starting out 50 years ago.
This week we talk to Mary Tilson, who hosts a popular and long-running show on Berkeley, California’s powerful and ultra-liberal KPFA, which was the first listener-supported radio station in the United States. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What […]
In two weeks, a patch of pastureland near a small Montana town will be transformed into one of the premier music festivals in Big Sky Country, as the Red Ants Pants Music Festival kicks off in White Sulphur Springs. This […]
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 6/6/15 Fox Theatre Tucson, AZ
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