Ken "Arkansas Music Fan" (Springdale, Arkansas, U.S.A.) says:
If you're not careful, you might overlook Dirt On The Strings. This record features many of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's classic instrumental performances. Practically all the material was recorded in the '70s--the only exception was "Return To Dismal Swamp II", which appeared on NGDB's recent Will The Circle Be Unbroken 3 album. However, the songs sound as fresh now as they were when NGDB originally recorded them.
There are a lot of highlights here. Earl Scruggs' "Randy Lynn Rag", dedicated to Earl's son Randy and originally from the Dirt Band's Uncle Charlie album, has a "live" feel to it--as NGDB's John McEuen tells it, everybody in the studio was watching the band play the song on the last take, and it loosened him and his bandmates up.
Don't pass up this collection--it includes some of NGDB's best music.
Song List:
1. Soldier's Joy
2. Winterwhite (Wind Harp)/Raleigh-Durham Reel
3. Lonesome Fiddle Blues
4. Randy Lynn Rag
5. Chicken Reel
6. Listen to the Mockingbird
7. Clinch Mountain Backstep
8. Togary Mountain
9. Return to Dismal Swamp II
10. Clemente Opus 36
11. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
12. Jas' Moon
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Ken "Arkansas Music Fan" (Springdale, Arkansas, U.S.A.) says:
