Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – All The Good Times: The Farewell Tour – 60 Years of Dirt (Plymouth)

For nearly six decades, the three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has entertained audi-ences with their top-shelf musicianship and timeless hits. 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. In the 1980s, the Dirt Band reeled off 15 straight Top 10 country hits, including chart-toppers “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream),” “Modern Day Romance,” and “Fishin’ in the Dark” (co-written by Jim Pho-toglo, who would join the band in the second decade of the new century).