With a refreshed lineup and newfound energy, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band remains one of the most accomplished bands in American roots music. Following an extended 50th anniversary tour, the ensemble ...

In 1972, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band helped bridge generations of American music with a recording that honored the past while inspiring the future. Their version of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" became the ...

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 ...

Seventy-nine years ago today, the co-founder of the Nitty Gritty Dirt band and songwriter behind multiple hits was born.

With over 100 combined years of touring, Little Feat and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have each performed their music to audiences across the world. Now these two monumental bands, who share a mutual ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will take its final bow this week when the country music group performs in Denver on June 18, bringing an end to a 60-year career that produced 27 albums and three Grammy ...

The countless venues played, airports traveled and hotels visited have become like white noise for Bob Carpenter for more than four decades as a member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Life on the road ...

“This band started in May of 1966 and, for almost 60 years now, they’ve been cruising America’s highways and playing shows along the way,” Ross Holmes of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band said in a phone ...

The 1972 album "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" was the original "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Back when the gulf between traditional country and counterculture rock seemed unbridgeable, a bunch of ...