Artist: NITTY GRITTY DIRT</br>genre: Country & Western</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Release Date: 26-MAR-2002</br>Returns Accepted?: Yes</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Two generations of country artists came together 30 years ago?? when this epic meeting took place between the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Moth" Maybelle Carter?? Earl Scruggs?? Doc Watson?? Roy Acuff and LOTS of other legends. This anniversary reissue features their remarkable renditions of Black Mountain Rag; Nine Pound Hammer; Honky Tonkin'; The Precious Jewel; Wabash Cannonball ?? and 33 more!</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>In an age when the old-timey soundtrack to <I>O Brother?? Where Art Thou?</I> sells 5 million copies?? it's hard to imagine how revolutionary <I>Will the Circle Be Unbroken</I> seemed upon its release 30 years ago. The triple album (now rereleased as a two-CD set) paired many of Nashville's venerable country and bluegrass performers (Roy Acuff?? Mother Maybelle Carter?? Earl Scruggs?? Doc Watson?? Merle Travis?? Jimmy Martin?? Vassar Clements) with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band?? or as Acuff called them?? "g-haired West Coast boys." The idea seemed nearly as foreign as Martians setting down in Tennessee?? but the Dirt Band were Colorado hippies steeped in the genre?? so there was no disputing the authenticity of the music?? or its