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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dualtone Music Group
• ASIN: B0002V4S3M
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,985 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Walkin' In The Sunshine

2. Forever Don't Last

3. Jealous Moon

4. It's Morning

5. Get Back

6. She

7. Safe Back Home

8. Party On The Mountain

9. Any Love But Our Love

10. It's A New Day

11. Old Time's Sake

12. Midnight At Woody Creek

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Welcome Return To Form, November 2, 2004

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcome To Woody Creek (Audio CD)

This is a welcome return to form after the relative disappointment of NGDB's last studio effort, the lackluster BANG BANG BANG, in 1999.

Several factors contribute to the overall success of this album. First, there is the full-time return of multi-instrumentalist John McEuen. His banjo playing keeps the band from slipping into the country "cookie cutter" mode that the band too often slipped into over the past two decades. In addition, they wrote most of their own material this time. All five band members wrote or co-wrote all but three tracks. Standouts are "Walkin' In the Sunshine," "Jealous Moon" and "It's Morning." [Covers include the Gram Parsons-Chris Ethridge "She" and a bluegrass remake of the Lennon-McCartney "Get Back."] Finally, the band was revitalized by "CIRCLE III." In fact, three of the songs on this album ("Any Love But Our Love," "Party on the Mountain" and "Old Time's Sake") come from the same 1996 sessions as "I Find Jesus" (which appeared on CIRCLE III).

For long time fans who treasured such releases as UNCLE CHARLIE & HIS DOG TEDDY and DREAM, this is a welcome addition to your NGDB collection. This is their best effort since 1994's ACOUSTIC and ranks up there with their classic 70s albums. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best in years!, October 21, 2004

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Mark Cloud "Musician" (Murrieta, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Welcome To Woody Creek (Audio CD)

It's great to see The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band back on form. Not that their records over the last decade haven't been good...they have, and I enjoy them very, very much. But they always seemed a bit too "mainstream" to be ranked amongst the band's best work. I suspect it was due to major label interference preventing the genre hopping that made their music so amazing (something I strongly suspect also marred the recent "Circle 3 " record).

Not so "Welcome to Woody Creek!" The NGDB is back big time. I just hope their new label is able to give this CD the promotion and distribution it so richly deserves. Not a weak cut on the record! It's wonderful to hear the group doing their own songs again, too; not to mention, Bob Carpenter finally being allowed to sing a couple again! This is a GREAT CD by a legendary band; you won't be sorry you bought it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just another Dirt Band album....but that's good!!!!!, October 13, 2004

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Cory L. Schwent (Bloomsdale, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome To Woody Creek (Audio CD)

Yeah, unfortunately, this is just another Nitty Gritty Dirt Band cd, nothing earthshaking. But that's not a bad thing, the Dirt Band are one of the most consistant groups in Country Music History.

The thing that really differs on this cd is the fact that Bob Carpenter gets to sing lead on more than one song. His version of "She" is very well done. And also, their version of "Get Back" is one of the few Beatles covers that stands on it's own. It does't make you forget the Beatles version, but it doesn't sound like a copied version either.

In all, I wouldn't say the music here is similar to their cd, "Acoustic" but more like "Plain Dirt Fashion" or "Dream."

There is nothing bad about this album, you won't be upset if you get it. Personally, I am a huge fan of Jeff Hanna and would prefer that he took the lead on all of the songs, but I can live with this.