Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

If you are of my age, you probably first heard bluegrass music when the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies came on.  Flatt & Scruggs played that song and it was a huge hit and popularizer of bluegrass.  I also remember listening to Homer and Jethro as a kid.  It was bluegrass, but it was also comedy.  Roy Clark would occasionally play some bluegrass banjo on Hee Haw, but mostly, bluegrass was not very popular compared to rock or country. I first heard the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band back in the 70’s, back when you heard music either on vinyl […]

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