Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour

For nearly six decades, the three-time Grammy Award®-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (NGDB) has entertained audiences with their top-shelf musicianship and timeless hits. The time has now come for the band to say so long to the highways and byways they’ve crossed an unimaginable number of times, carrying the torch of American country and roots music. ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour isn’t goodbye forever, but it will be the last of their multi-city runs and long bus rides.

Many veteran bands trade on nostalgia, on replication of past glories, and on recycled emotions from younger, more carefree days.The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band trades on a mix of reimagined classics and compelling newer works. The group formed in 1966 as a Long Beach, California jug band, scored its first charting single in 1967, and embarked on a self-propelled ride through folk, country, rock ‘n’ roll, pop, blue- grass, and the amalgam now known as “Americana.”

The first major hit came in 1971 with the epic “Mr. Bojangles,” which, along with insistent support from banjo master Earl Scruggs, opened doors in Nashville. Behind those doors were Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Doc Watson, Mother Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, and others who would collaborate on a multi-artist, multi-generational, three-disc 1972 masterpiece: Will the Circle Be Unbroken went triple Platinum, spawned two later volumes, and wound up in the Grammy Hall of Fame.