An Introduction to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

• Artist: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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• Release Date: April 18, 2006
• Total Time: 53:17
• Type: Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Country

Review

Fuel 2000's Introduction to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band dutifully encapsulates the groundbreaking progressive country group's shape-shifting career. Unlike other anthologies, Introduction spends ample time examining the Southern California collective's early psychedelic folk-rock offerings, chronicling their rise from jug band to the country bluegrass elder statesmen that organized 1972's legendary Will the Circle Be Unbroken and its two good but inferior sequels. Early hits like "Buy for Me the Rain," "Mr. Bojangles," and "Truly Right" are augmented by deep-catalog gems like the John McEuen instrumental "Dismal Swamp," the Doc Watson-led "Tennessee Stud," and a cover of Randy Newman's "Livin' Without You," making this a superior entry point for listeners who have felt put off in the past by the genre-bending group's myriad recordings, both collectively and collaboratively. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi

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