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Contest: Win a copy of the triple-vinyl reissue of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken'
**NOTE: This contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone for entering!
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have just reissued - on high-quality vinyl - their seminal 1972 release Will the Circle Be Unbroken and we'd like to give away copies to three lucky ND community members.
From the press release:
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s seminal 1972 Americana album, Will the Circle be Unbroken, has been remastered from the original analog tapes for a deluxe 40th Anniversary 3LP vinyl and high definition digital HDtracks edition, to be released March 12 by Capitol Nashville. Overseen by the band and including a new liner notes essay by the Dirt Band’s John McEuen, the commemorative edition features the original, Platinum-certified triple album on 180-gram vinyl, presented in faithfully restored gatefold packaging with an exclusive poster. The new release, remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, marks the first-ever vinyl and high definition digital audio reissue of one of Americana’s most influential recordings.
...Recorded live over six consecutive days at Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Will the Circle be Unbroken is a timeless feat of studio collaboration, bringing together accomplished country songwriters and musicians from two generations for a cohesive album that is both steeped in tradition and pioneering in its form, ushering in the new Americana style and remaining a font of musical influence to this day. In 2005, the album was selected for the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress, joining an esteemed group of essential American recordings which “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States."
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Comment by Art Klein on March 19, 2013 at 3:37am -
Groundbreaking conceptually and musically at the time. Opened up another world of music for me, listening to the foundation of this wonderful ensemble. Saw the NGDB a few years later at the Bottom Line in NYC. Was one of those shows that you can never forget.
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Comment by Smartattack on March 19, 2013 at 3:47am -
I had recently attended a three day bluegrass festival at Horse Pens 40 in Alabama just weeks before this album came out. I purchased my first copy of the album the day it was released hardly daring to believe the music could live up to the promise of the list of artists on the cover....of course, it surpassed all expectations and planted the Dirt Band and these roots of American music deep within me....now, why would you make me choose between Orange Blossom Special, Keep on the Sunny Side, or Pins and Needles for a favorite? Flip a coin and you decide. I'm going to dig out my old copy and listen to them all until you can send me the Anniversary Edition.
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Comment by Colin Cannon on March 19, 2013 at 3:53am -
Traditionalists in every way ... yet, ground breaking in every notion. Love this band!
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Comment by Joe Owers on March 19, 2013 at 3:58am -
I bought the original "Circle" record as 1st year H.S. student in '73.It pointed the way that I still travel today.Still listening to those artists who are still with us and those who are not and in some cases their sons and daughters.Thanks for all the wonderful music!
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Comment by Leonard Parsley on March 19, 2013 at 4:12am -
Only first heard that song on WAMU Bluegrass Country and since then, the melody never left my mind. A masterpiece I can not wait to hear on vinyl.
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Comment by Kevin O'Donovan on March 19, 2013 at 4:23am -
I bought this album in high school and have been a Bluegrass fan and player ever since.
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Comment by DJ Texas Ted Branson Jr on March 19, 2013 at 4:30am -
I was 17 years old when this LP came out and I was living in Ontario and had just met Don Stover in a little church playing a small concert in a little country church...I ran out and purchased a 5 string Framus banjo and started playing. Bluegrass festivals were everywhere there at the time but when this LP came out Iwas amazed and it brought so many young people to the music and the legends that had been per5forming it for decades. What a wonderful experience having this album to go to all these years and I play from it on my radio show every week! Then when the 2nd LP came out I saw all these legends at an Austin City Limits taping and met Jimmy Martin and Vassar Clements! My fondest memories! Thanx Nitty Gritty!
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Comment by Shawn Edward Cote on March 19, 2013 at 4:37am -
Such a great record, I don't know if I can single out a favorite track. I can say that listening to "Nashville Blues" still makes me want to learn to play the banjo. Earl Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson, Roy Acuff--it doesn't get much better than that. And of course Mother Maybelle. I just wish Ibby Ibbotson were still in the band--his voice is what drew me to NGDB in the first place, back about the time Plain Dirt Fashion came out...
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Comment by Ray Weaver on March 19, 2013 at 4:56am -
This record...and that is what it is, a treu record of an amazing event...carries the weight of not just music history, but the history of the time it was recorded. I had long hair and loved Dylan and Tom Rush and the Stones, Zep and Jackson Browne in 1972. My dad loved country and bluegrass. We didn't have much to say to each other that didn't result in some kind of loggerheads; Vietnam, the government, weed...major flash points everywhere. I thought the country music on the AM radion in his Falcon stationwagon was hopelessly out of step and corny, and he hated pretty much anything that poured forth from my bedroom...then came this. The Dirt band, whom I loved, and all of these fossils. What the hell was this? It turned out that "this" was the record that led me back to the roots of so much of the music that I loved and helped me figure out a bit of what my dad was on about. He realised that some of those long-haired fellas could actually play pretty good! My dad and I could actually be in the same room at the same time listening to Doc Watson...I was learning, and I guess he was too. We actually went to some bluegrass festivals together after that. To say the record changed my life would not be hyperbole. My own music became more organic, and I have since follwed the Dirt Band through every incarnation and step of the Circle journey...this is the best of what music gives...community...love and history...
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Comment by Butch Martin on March 19, 2013 at 5:10am
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I bought this album as soon as it came out and practically wore it out over the next few years. Many years later, I bought the CD version. It is the definitive bluegrass and Americana album - so much history and musicianship in those songs. It is one of the few albums I can go back and listen to again and again. I got to see many of the musicians live after that - The Earl Scruggs Revue with Vassar Clements and Josh Graves, and Doc Watson, my hero. The one I always wanted to see perform but never got the chance was Merle Travis.
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