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A strong debut album by one of the most offbeat folk/country-rock bands of the 1960s, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Apart from the one unabashed classic, "Buy for Me the Rain," which was a modest hit and the group's biggest claim to musical fame for the next three years, the album also contained the delightful banjo-dominated John McEuen/Bill McEuen instrumental "Dismal Swamp" (which was anything but dismal), the Jackson Browne ballad "Holding," the rousing "You're Gonna Get It in the End," and Bruce Kunkel's haunting, ethereal "Song to Jutta" (as fine a song as anything the Byrds were doing at the time, and better played). In those days, the band wasn't too far removed from the sound of the early Grateful Dead or the Charlatans, but as this album reveals, drugs played less of a role in their music-making than humor, and some of the material was a little too comedic -- Rev. Gary Davis's "Candy Man," for example, comes off more upbeat than blues covers were supposed to be in those days, and may have seemed a little too much like a minstrel show interpretation (though one suspects Davis would have loved it), in a time when white versions of such songs were supposed to be either heavily electrified or reverent to the point of being somber.
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Dallas Smith, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Copeland, Composer - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Steve Noonan, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Roy Kral, Composer - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Charlie Ventura, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Jackson Browne, Composer - WILLIAM E. MCEUEN, Producer - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Russ Regan, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Bates, ComposerLyricist - Milton Ager, ComposerLyricist - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Jack Yellen, ComposerLyricist - Robert Wilcox Bigelow, ComposerLyricist
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Jackson Browne, Composer - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Kunkel, Composer - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Rev. Gary Davis, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - William McEuen, Composer - John McEuen, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Armand John Piron, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Milton Ager, Composer - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Jack Yellen, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, MainArtist - Michael Francis Takamatsu, Composer - James R Hendricks, Composer - Fred Olson, Composer
(C) 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
Album review
A strong debut album by one of the most offbeat folk/country-rock bands of the 1960s, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Apart from the one unabashed classic, "Buy for Me the Rain," which was a modest hit and the group's biggest claim to musical fame for the next three years, the album also contained the delightful banjo-dominated John McEuen/Bill McEuen instrumental "Dismal Swamp" (which was anything but dismal), the Jackson Browne ballad "Holding," the rousing "You're Gonna Get It in the End," and Bruce Kunkel's haunting, ethereal "Song to Jutta" (as fine a song as anything the Byrds were doing at the time, and better played). In those days, the band wasn't too far removed from the sound of the early Grateful Dead or the Charlatans, but as this album reveals, drugs played less of a role in their music-making than humor, and some of the material was a little too comedic -- Rev. Gary Davis's "Candy Man," for example, comes off more upbeat than blues covers were supposed to be in those days, and may have seemed a little too much like a minstrel show interpretation (though one suspects Davis would have loved it), in a time when white versions of such songs were supposed to be either heavily electrified or reverent to the point of being somber.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:27:20
- Main artists: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Nashville
- Genre: Country
© 1967 Capitol Records Nashville ℗ 1967 Capitol Records Nashville
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