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listen  1. Take Me In Your LifeboatThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Del McCoury With Robbie McCoury And Ronnie McCoury 3:41$0.99 Buy Track
listen  2. Milk Cow BluesThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Doc Watson With Richard Watson And Josh Graves 5:04$0.99 Buy Track
listen  3. I Find JesusThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 3:54$0.99 Buy Track
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listen  6. Diamonds In The RoughThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring June Carter Cash With Earl Scruggs 3:39$0.99 Buy Track
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listen  8. Some Dark HollerThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Dwight Yoakam 3:18$0.99 Buy Track
listen  9. The Lowlands (featuring Jaime Hanna & Jonathon McEuen)The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 3:49$0.99 Buy Track
listen10. Love, Please Come HomeThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Del McCoury With Robbie McCoury And Ronnie McCoury 2:49$0.99 Buy Track
listen11. Goodnight IreneThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Willie Nelson And Tom Petty 4:30$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. I Know What It Means To Be LonesomeThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring The Nashville Bluegrass Band 3:49$0.99 Buy Track
listen13. I'll Be Faithful To YouThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Emmylou Harris 2:33$0.99 Buy Track
listen14. Tears In The Holston RiverThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Johnny Cash 4:14$0.99 Buy Track


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listen  1. Fishin' BluesThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Taj Mahal With Vassar Clements 4:30$0.99 Buy Track
listen  2. Save It, Save ItThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Jimmy Martin 1:57$0.99 Buy Track
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listen10. All Prayed UpThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Vince Gill 3:09$0.99 Buy Track
listen11. Return To Dismal Swamp II (2002 Digital Remaster) (Feat. Jerry Douglas, Glen Duncan, Ronnie McCoury And Tony Rice)The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Jerry Douglas, Glen Duncan, Ronnie McCoury And Tony Rice 3:17$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. There Is A TimeThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Rodney Dillard And Ricky Skaggs 3:32$0.99 Buy Track
listen13. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Glory, Glory)The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Taj Mahal, Alison Krauss And Doc Watson 4:39$0.99 Buy Track
listen14. Farther AlongThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Randy Scruggs 6:01$0.99 Buy Track

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  • Audio CD (October 1, 2002)
  • Original Release Date: 2002
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Capitol
  • ASIN: B00006I4YE
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,670 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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In the early '70s, the original Circle teamed the Dirt Band, a group of longhaired young country-rockers, with several country and bluegrass legends. In an era of polarization between young and old, it introduced countless baby boomers to that music, paving the way for the recent triumph of the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack. This time, the Dirt Band reunites with Jimmy Martin, Earl Scruggs, and Doc Watson, veterans of the first Circle, and adds a host of other country, folk, and bluegrass greats. Despite several stellar performances, among them Del McCoury's bracing "Take Me in Your Lifeboat" and Martin's snappy re-creation of his 1950s favorite "Save It, Save It," most of what's here is merely pleasant. Attempts to replicate the feel of the original, complete with copious between-take studio chitchat and an acoustic guitar coda by Randy Scruggs, come off a bit self-conscious and forced. The original Circle remains a landmark, but in a time when cameo appearances and cross-generation collaborations are so common--Nashville calls them Vocal Events--what was once a unique concept often seems anticlimactic and mundane. --Rich Kienzle
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another fine volume of roots and guests, December 1, 2002
While this third volume couldn't possibly be the ground-breaking release that was 1972's initial "Circle," it wears the legacy well. Thirty years down-the-line, the Dirt Band are no longer the eager young turks of 1972, nor is this sort of inter-generational tribute to roots a new concept. In the decades since the first "Circle," what was once novel is now more commonplace, and though the familiarity doesn't lessen the quality or value of the music, it does lessen its impact.

In addition to the Dirt Band, the first "Circle" is reprised in the playing and singing of Jimmy Martin, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Vassar Clements. Notably missing are Roy Acuff, Merle Travis and Mother Maybelle, though the latter two are celebrated in song -- Travis by Doc Watson's recitation of "I Am a Pilgrim," and Carter by Johnny Cash's newly-penned "Tears in the Holston River."

The historical resonance that's been lost to the passing of legends is renewed by several family gatherings, including performances from Del, Robbie and Ronnie McCoury, Doc and Richard Watson, John and Jonathan McCuen (the former of whom only recently returned after an extended absence from the Dirt Band's lineup), Jeff and Jaime Hanna, and Jimmy and Ray Martin. The passing of the torch, first from Nashville's pioneers to a new generation, and now from that generation to it's children, shows the Circle to really be a link in a chain.

The "new blood" on this volume features established stars like Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Vince Gill, Dwight Yoakam and Tom Petty. A few lesser-known (but no less talented) artists, Iris Dement and songwriter Matraca Berg, are joined by legends Taj Mahal, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. It's a fine lineup of talent, but their careers (often built directly in opposition to the Nashvillization of country music), not to mention their familiarity with the first two "Circle" volumes, lend this set a somewhat self-conscious air.

Dwight Yoakam's tilled similar soil on his solo albums, consequently his contributions sound as much like Dwight Yoakam as they do back-to-the-roots "Circle" inventions (not that this is a bad thing, of course). Petty is mostly superfluous duetting with Willie Nelson on "Goodnight Irene," but Berg, who's best known for her songwriting (e.g., Deana Carter's "Strawberry Wine), gets a chance to show off a rootsy side that's only sporadically made it onto her solo efforts. Her duet with Emmylou Harris (on Berg's own "Oh Cumberland") is a highlight, as are Vince Gill's gospel "All Prayed Up" and Taj Mahal's "Fishin' Blues."

In a year that's seen a deluxe reissue of the first "Circle" album, volume three can't help but pale slightly in comparison. But taken on its own, this is a fine album of singing and song, one that heeds (if not really expands upon) the first set's principles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars NGDB Circle III, This years country music must., October 2, 2002
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If you like NGDB's first Circle album, you'll love this one. Yes, the current "in crowd" of country music muscle all makes an appearance from Allison Krause to Vince Gill, as well as the varied talents of Taj Mahal, Tom Petty, Iris DeMent and Dwight Yoakam. Circle I and III are also bridged by repeat performers Randy and Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Vassar Clements. Bluegrass titans Del McCoury, Tony Rice and Sam Bush also lend their talents to this project. But this album is so much more than great singers, pickers, and legends getting together to collaborate on a few songs. It is truly the best of Americana, roots and acoustic music. It is soul music. It is music from the front porch, and from your living room.

This is without a doubt the best album to come out of Nashville this year. This is not the slick, polished, over produced dribble that permeates country radio and that makes one song almost indistinguishable from the next. This is music played and sung from the heart. Thanks to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for once again bringing music back to it's roots and heritage, for reminding us to take a look in the rearview mirror to see where we came from, and for single handedly making the musical past relevant to the musical future. This is the "must have" album for 2002...and beyond. (And there's a hidden track!)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazon.com review misses the boat....., August 10, 2003
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It's easy to criticize WTCBU 3 as paling versus the original, but that's kind of like some old-fart neighbor telling a teenage grandson "You ain't the man your grandpa was...". It's pretentious to make that kind of comparison.....this album is more like a brand new BMW versus a 30-year-old classic. Can you look at it and see the purity of the bloodline? In this case, you bet your rear you can....
This album has in spades what both prior Circles were known for: an informal jam atmosphere, hot licks and tight harmonies, and super-clean recording acoustics. In the process, it also throws in countless subtle details to support the "bloodline" analogy. Johnny Cash singing his own ballad about Mother Maybelle...the matriarch and his mother-in-law. The late June Carter Cash dueting with Earl Scruggs. The sons of Jeff Hanna and John McEuen dueting with their fathers on supporting strings, Doc Watson digging deep into the folk archive with his grandson Richard, versus 30 years ago when he was playing with his son, the late Merle Watson. Taj Mahal, bringing a previously unrepresented view of The South into this history book.

Sure you can dis it for following the same formula as the prior two Circles. But fact is, that's not a bad formula to follow. This is a great album of American Music, made by American musicians. Buy It.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great gift
I purchased this cd for my husband for Christmas. He loves bluegrass and loves this cd. He also has volume 1&2.
Published 10 months ago by D. Lancaster

4.0 out of 5 stars Still worth it!
This is not the landmark CD of vol. I. It lacks the generational impact of that landmark event and seems to lack the good feelings of vol. II. Read more
Published on September 9, 2007 by James Durney

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as I thought
I have the other two circle discs which are great, and this one hasn't disappointed one little bit. Buy it it's great
Published on June 9, 2007 by Mrs. Christine Jaques

5.0 out of 5 stars as expected
The goods arrived in excellent condition, as advertised and I am extremely satisfied with the prompt,careful service.
Published on June 29, 2006 by eric kearney

2.0 out of 5 stars The circle HAS been broken
I have both Volume I & II so couldn't resist buying Volume III. The music was good, can't complain about good pickin' like that but I did notice that the original intent of the... Read more
Published on April 4, 2006 by MuzikLover

5.0 out of 5 stars Música de siempre y para siempre
Es una música que traspasa las fronteras de su propia cultura y de sus límites geográficos, llegando a lugares insospechados como es el extremo de Sud América. Read more
Published on February 24, 2006 by MFL

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Much
Now, don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of NGDB, and have at one time or another owned all (or most) of their albums on tape, CD, or vinyl. Read more
Published on July 6, 2005 by Garry Daniel

5.0 out of 5 stars Stands Tall Alongside the Original
My life-long love affair with rock 'n' roll began in 1964 when I was eleven and bought MEET THE BEATLES. Read more
Published on February 26, 2004 by Steve Vrana

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite, So Far
I've read several negative reviews of this album, which make no sense to me at all. I bought this one first, then Vol I (everybody's favorite, it seems). Read more
Published on October 30, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Mighty -- Gonna wear this one out for sure.
Volume 3 is great and mighty. Personally, I think this 'old' bluegrass/country/oldtime gospel/folk music puts the new country to shame. Read more
Published on September 24, 2003 by N. MACQUEEN

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