There are a just a handful of acts that were able to jump from rock’n’roll to country.”
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“It was more like, ‘These guys are the real deal, let’s give ’em a shot.’ That door would crack open occasionally - you know, it happened for Kenny Rogers. “I don’t think we were looked upon as carpetbaggers,” says Hanna. The latter project likely set up its move into country in 1983. Bojangles” and worked with the likes of Roy Acuff, Earl Scruggs and “Mother” Maybelle Carter on the first Circle album in 1971. The group befriended a host of the singer-songwriter era’s most influential acts - Linda Ronstadt, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Eagles and Buffalo Springfield among them - opened for jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie, logged a top 10 pop hit with “Mr. The act was a jug band at the time, mixing homemade instruments into a folk-derived sound, but NGDB made it stylistically nimble. Formed in Long Beach, Calif., in 1966, the band gave its first paid performance that May at a Southern California club called The Paradox - “I think they paid us in money instead of pizza,” quips Hanna - with a lineup that included some guy named Jackson Browne. That crossover element is an important part of the Dirty truth.
Zac Brown Band, Eli Young Band and Old Dominion are among the acts that have benefited from the once-rocky road their predecessors paved.Īdditionally, the summery tones and images of modern country - Zac Brown Band’s “Toes,” Blake Shelton’s “Some Beach,” Dierks Bentley’s “Somewhere on a Beach” and Brad Paisley’s “Beat This Summer,” among others - owe a major debt to the Dirt Band’s “An American Dream” and Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville,” both of which crossed from pop to country with sand and sunshine in the late 1970s when country was mostly locked up in dark barrooms. Cycling from rock into country in the era of Alabama and Exile, the Dirt Band helped change the perception of self-contained groups when the format doggedly preferred solo stars. Yet its influence can still be felt across the genre. “We weren’t doing anything drastically different.” “There’s no rhyme or reason to this thing,” says Hanna of the group’s quick commercial decline. NGDB Teams With Nelson During 40th Anniv. Oddly enough, after that peak experience, the only time it was directly connected with the top layer of the charts again came when Rascal Flatts covered one of Hanna’s co-writes, “Bless the Broken Road,” in 2005.
One of country’s most consistent hitmaking acts in the 1980s, NGDB capped that decade with Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume II, a guest-loaded project that nabbed three Grammy Awards and the Country Music Association’s album of the year honor. The last half of the Dirt Band’s career has taken place outside the top 10. It’s a little bit of a cliche, but people often say that the four of us together make a different noise than any one of us could ourselves. I think it’s a different mind-set than being a solo artist, and it’s really rewarding. “ The Band was a real inspiration for us, the way those guys presented themselves and the music they made,” says Hanna in reflection.
They were all in the spotlight, but none tried to dominate it. Hanna, McEuen, drummer Jimmie Fadden and keyboard player Bob Carpenter went at it with a collective mentality, clearly placing the needs of the material and the band itself - not to mention a parade of guests - above their own satisfaction.
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