After Thursday evening's first of two performances at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, marking an end to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's six decades of tours involving multi-city runs and long bus rides, ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is a quintessential American group. Formed in 1966 in Long Beach, Calif., the country-rock band — equally as influential in folk-rock's transition to country-rock as the ...

For more than 50 years, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has been a flagbearer for Americana music, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of contemporary country, rock and folk. And now the band is ...

The countless venues played, airports traveled and hotels visited have become like white noise for Bob Carpenter for more than four decades as a member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Life on the road ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Saturday night concert, June 22, 2024, is moving from the outdoor McGrath Amphitheatre to the indoor Alliant Energy PowerHouse in downtown Cedar Rapids. Band members are ...

Imagine this: You're a long-haired hippie who decamped in the early 1970s from Colorado to make a Nashville album alongside the forefathers and godmothers of country music. You sang with Doc Watson ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is set to perform March 28 at The Ector Theatre. (Courtesy Photo) In a different life, maybe even in an alternate universe, Bob Carpenter could have been a handyman, working ...

With a refreshed lineup and newfound energy, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band remains one of the most accomplished bands in American roots music. Following an extended 50th anniversary tour, the ensemble ...

Teenage Jeff Hanna paid $4.50 to see Bob Dylan perform at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California on Dec. 5, 1964. Armed only with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica rack, Dylan, who had only ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was formed as a jug band in the fall of 1965 in Long Beach, California. The group, which in its early days briefly included songwriter Jackson Browne, quickly pushed off on ...