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Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy (Box Set) (CD)

By: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Artist)

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Artist Snapshot:

Their earliest incarnation was as a large, fun-loving jug-band/trad folk group in mid-1960s California. Eventually the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band evolved into a tight, critically lauded country-rock ensemble, and had a Top Ten hit in 1970 with the poignant "Mr. Bojangles." The band was also legendary for assembling informal recording sessions with Nashville veterans such as Merle Travis and Roy Acuff, the results of which, 1972's MAY THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN, inspired two more volumes, a 30th anniversary reissue, and a box set. Through many lineup changes and a brief name change (the Dirt Band), their career has extended through the millennium and shows no signs of letting up.

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DISC 1 for Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Artist...
1   Grand Ole Opry Song
2   Keep On The Sunnyside
3   Nashville Blues
4   You Are My Flower
5   Precious Jewel, The
6   Dark As A Dungeon
7   Tennessee Stud
8   Black Mountain Rag
9   Wreck On The Highway
10   End Of The World, The
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
 
DISC 2 for Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Artist...
1   Lonesome Fiddle Blues
2   Cannonball Rag
3   Avalanche
4   Flint Hill Special
5   Togary Mountain
6   Earl's Breakdown
7   Orange Blossom Speical
8   Wabash Cannonball
9   Lost Highway
10   Doc Watson & Merle Travis
11   Way Downtown
12   Down Yonder
13   Pins And Needles (In My Heart)
14   Honky Tonk Blues
15   Sailin' On To Hawaii
16   I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
17   I Am A Pilgrim
18   Wildwood Flower
19   Soldier's Joy
20   Will The Circle Be Unbroken
21   Both Side Now
22   Foggy Mountain Breakdown
23   Warming Up For The Opry
24   Sunny Side
25   Remember Me
 
DISC 3 for Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Artist...
1   Life's Railway To Heaven
2   Grandpa Was A Carpenter
3   When I Get My Rewards
4   Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan
5   Little Mountain Church House
6   And So It Goes
7   When It's Gone
8   Mary Danced With Soldiers
9   Riding Alone
10   I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World
11   Lovin' On The Side
12   Lost River
13   Bayou Jubilee
14   Blues Berry Hill
15   Turn Of The Century
16   One Step Over The Line
17   You Ain't Going Nowhere
18   Valley Road, The
19   Will The Circle Be Unbroken
20   Amazing Grace
 
DISC 4 for Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Artist...
1   Take Me In Your Lifeboat
2   Milk Cow Blues
3   I Find Jesus
4   Hold Whatcha Got
5   Mama's Opry
6   Diamonds In The Rough
7   Lonesome River
8   Some Dark Holler
9   Lowlands, The
10   Love, Please Come Home
11   Goodnight Irene
12   I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome
13   I'll Be Faithful To You
14   Tears In The Holston River
 
DISC 5 for Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy (Box Set) (CD) Album By Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Artist...
1   Fishin' Blues
2   Save It, Save It
3   Wheels
4   Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
5   Oh Cumberland
6   I Am A Pilgrim
7   Sallie Ann
8   Catfish John
9   Roll The Stone Away
10   All Prayed Up
11   Return To Dismal Swamp II
12   There Is A Time
13   Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Glory, Glory)
14   Farther Along
 

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Title Note

Full Title: Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Trilogy.

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN: THE TRILOGY contains WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN

(1972)/WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN VOLUME II (1989)/WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN VOLUME III (2002). This release also includes a bonus DVD.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band includes: Jimmy Ibbotson, Jeff Hanna, Bob Carpenter, John McEuen, Jimmie Fadden, Les Thompson.

Additional personnel includes: Maybelle Carter (vocals, guitar, autoharp); Merle Travis, Del McCoury, Doc Watson, Jimmy Martin, Iris Dement, Dwight Yoakam, Jaime Hanna, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Matraca Berg, Vince Gill, John Prine, Michael Martin Murphey, John Hiatt, Taj Mahal (vocals, guitar); Roger McGuinn (vocals, 12-string guitar); Levon Helm, Sam Bush, Ricky Scaggs (vocals, mandolin); June Carter Cash (vocals, autoharp); Alison Krauss (vocals, fiddle); Bruce Hornsby (vocals, piano); Rosanne Cash, The Carter Family, Roy Acuff, John Denver, Paulette Carlson (vocals); Chet Atkins, Richard Watson, Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Tony Rice (guitar); Bela Fleck (banjo); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Mark O'Connor (mandolin, mandola, fiddle); Vassar Clements (fiddle).

Producers: William E. McEuen, Randy Scruggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN (1972) ultimately had the same kind of effect that the O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? soundtrack album would have more than two-and-a-half decades later. That is to say, it crossed the sounds and artists of bluegrass and old-school country over to mainstream pop/rock audiences. This was due largely to the tenacity of country-rockers the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, who masterminded the project, accompanying the artists whose music had inspired them. Thus, the work of Jimmy Martin, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, and others was introduced to the Dirt Band's young, rock-oriented audience.

The TRILOGY box set combines that album with its 1989 and 2002 sequels, over the course of five discs (the sixth is a DVD). Volume II introduces a couple of more contemporary performers (Bruce Hornsby, John Hiatt) but still features plenty of country vets (Jimmy Martin, Johnny Cash) and early-'70s-vintage artists (Levon Helm, John Prine). The third installment features less traditional material, but no less of an authentic roots feel, as Del McCoury and Willie Nelson rub elbows with Dwight Yoakam and Tom Petty. Crossing generations and genre lines, the CIRCLE series is a stunning summit meeting of American music, and as presented in this box set, it's both invigorating and gripping from start to finish.

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