Nitty Gritty Dirt Band discography
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (NGDB) is an American country rock band. The group has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California, in 1966.[1] The band's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period when the band performed and recorded as the Dirt Band. The band is often cited as instrumental to the progression of contemporary country and roots music.
| Nitty Gritty Dirt Band discography | |
|---|---|
 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 2024. | |
| Studio albums | 25 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 4 |
| Singles | 41 |
| Music videos | 22 |
| No. 1 singles | 4 |
The band's successes include a cover version of Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles". Albums include 1972's Will the Circle Be Unbroken, featuring such traditional country artists as Mother Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, and Jimmy Martin. A follow-up album based on the same concept, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two was released in 1989, was certified gold, won two Grammys, and was named Album of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards.
Studio albums
1960s
| Title | Details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US | ||
| The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
|
151 |
| Ricochet |
|
— |
| Rare Junk |
|
— |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||
1970s
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | AUS[2] | CAN | ||
| Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy |
|
— | 66 | 31 | 56 |
| All the Good Times |
|
— | 162 | 47 | — |
| Stars & Stripes Forever |
|
32 | 28 | 93 | 25 |
| Symphonion Dream |
|
— | 66 | — | — |
| The Dirt Band |
|
— | 163 | — | — |
| An American Dream |
|
— | 76 | 82 | 63 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
1980s
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | CAN Country | CAN | ||
| Make a Little Magic |
|
— | 62 | 12 | 64 |
| Jealousy |
|
— | 102 | — | — |
| Let's Go |
|
26 | — | — | — |
| Plain Dirt Fashion |
|
8 | — | 5 | — |
| Partners, Brothers and Friends |
|
9 | — | — | — |
| Hold On |
|
14 | — | — | — |
| Workin' Band |
|
33 | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
1990s onward
| Title | Details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country | ||
| The Rest of the Dream |
|
53 |
| Not Fade Away |
|
— |
| Acoustic |
|
— |
| The Christmas Album |
|
— |
| Bang, Bang, Bang |
|
— |
| Welcome to Woody Creek |
|
— |
| Speed of Life |
|
59 |
| Dirt Does Dylan |
|
— |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||
Collaborations
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | CAN Country | CAN | |||
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
|
4 | 68 | — | 21 | |
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two |
|
5 | 95 | 3 | 57 |
|
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III |
|
18 | 134 | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||
Live albums
| Title | Details | Peak positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country |
US Folk |
US Bluegrass | |||
| Alive |
|
— | — | — | |
| Live Two Five |
|
50 | — | — | |
| Circlin’ Back: Celebrating 50 Years (CD/DVD)[4] |
|
11 | 11 | 1 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Compilation albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
Certifications (sales thresholds) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | |||
| Dirt, Silver and Gold |
|
28 | 77 | |
| Twenty Years of Dirt |
|
10 | — |
|
| The Best Of |
|
— | — | |
| More Great Dirt |
|
38 | — |
|
| Greatest Hits |
|
— | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
Singles
1960s and 1970s
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [7] |
US [8] |
AUS [2] |
CAN | |||
| 1967 | "Buy for Me the Rain" | — | 45 | — | 37 | The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| "Truly Right" | — | — | — | — | Ricochet | |
| 1968 | "Collegiana" | — | — | — | — | Rare Junk |
| 1969 | "Some of Shelly's Blues" | — | — | — | — | Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy |
| 1970 | "Mr. Bojangles" | — | 9 | 15 | 2 | |
| "Rave On" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1971 | "House at Pooh Corner" | — | 53 | — | 30 | |
| "Some of Shelly's Blues" [A] | — | 64 | — | 56 | ||
| "I Saw the Light" (with Roy Acuff) | 56 | — | — | — | Will the Circle Be Unbroken | |
| 1972 | "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" | — | 84 | — | — | All the Good Times |
| "Baltimore" | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Jamaica (Say You Will)" | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Honky Tonkin'" | — | — | — | — | Will the Circle Be Unbroken | |
| 1973 | "Cosmic Cowboy – Part 1" | — | 123 | — | — | Stars & Stripes Forever |
| "Grand Ole Opry Song" (with Jimmy Martin) | 97 | — | — | — | Will the Circle Be Unbroken | |
| "Tennessee Stud" (with Doc Watson) | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1974 | "The Battle of New Orleans" | — | 72 | — | — | Stars & Stripes Forever |
| 1975 | "(All I Have to Do Is) Dream" | — | 66 | — | — | Symphonium Dream |
| "Mother of Love" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1976 | "Cosmic Cowboy" (re-recording) (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | Dirt, Silver and Gold |
| "Jamaica Lady" (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Mother Earth (Provides For Me)" (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1978 | "In for the Night" (as The Dirt Band) | — | 86 | — | — | The Dirt Band |
| "For A Little While" (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1979 | "In Her Eyes" (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | An American Dream |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||
1980s
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [7] |
US [8] |
AUS[2] | CAN Country | CAN | ||||
| 1980 | "An American Dream" (as The Dirt Band) | 58 | 13 | 45 | — | 3 | An American Dream | |
| "Make a Little Magic" (as The Dirt Band)[B] | 77 | 25 | — | — | 52 | Make a Little Magic | ||
| "Badlands" (as The Dirt Band) | — | 107 | — | — | — | |||
| "High School Yearbook" (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1981 | "Fire in the Sky" (as The Dirt Band) | — | 76 | — | — | — | Jealousy | |
| "Jealousy" (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Too Close For Comfort" (as The Dirt Band) | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1983 | "Shot Full of Love" | 19 | — | — | — | — | Let's Go | |
| "Dance Little Jean" | 9 | — | — | 39 | — | |||
| 1984 | "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)" | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | Plain Dirt Fashion | |
| "I Love Only You" | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | |||
| 1985 | "High Horse" | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | ||
| "Modern Day Romance" | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | Partners, Brothers and Friends | ||
| "Home Again in My Heart" | 3 | — | — | 1 | — | |||
| 1986 | "Partners, Brothers and Friends" | 6 | — | — | 3 | — | ||
| "Stand a Little Rain" | 5 | — | — | 3 | — | Twenty Years of Dirt | ||
| "Fire in the Sky" (re-release)[C] | 7 | — | — | 5 | — | |||
| 1987 | "Baby's Got a Hold on Me" | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | Hold On | |
| "Fishin' in the Dark" | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| ||
| "Oh What a Love" | 5 | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1988 | "Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)" | 4 | — | — | 6 | — | Workin' Band | |
| "I've Been Lookin'" | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | |||
| "Down That Road Tonight" | 6 | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1989 | "Turn of the Century" | 27 | — | — | 24 | — | Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two | |
| "And So It Goes" (with John Denver) | 14 | — | — | 29 | — | |||
| "When It's Gone" | 10 | — | — | 11 | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||
1990s onward
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [7] |
CAN Country | |||
| 1990 | "One Step Over the Line" (with Rosanne Cash and John Hiatt) |
63 | 47 | Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two |
| "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" | 65 | 66 | The Rest of the Dream | |
| "You Made Life Good Again" | 60 | 33 | ||
| "The Rest of the Dream" | — | — | ||
| 1991 | "Cadillac Ranch" | — | — | Live Two Five |
| "Mr. Bojangles" (re-recording) | — | 68 | ||
| 1992 | "I Fought the Law" | 66 | — | Not Fade Away |
| "One Good Love" | 74 | 85 | ||
| 1993 | "Little Angel"[10] | — | — | |
| 1994 | "Cupid's Got a Gun"[11] | — | — | Acoustic |
| 1996 | "Maybe Baby"[12] | — | — | Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly) |
| 1998 | "Bang, Bang, Bang"[D] | 52 | 44 | Bang, Bang, Bang |
| 1999 | "Bang, Bang, Bang" (re-release) | 63 | 67 | |
| 2021 | "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (with Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Jason Isbell, and The War and Treaty[13] |
— | — | Dirt Does Dylan |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
Other singles
Christmas singles
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [7] | |||
| 1983 | "Colorado Christmas" | 93 | A Christmas Tradition |
| 1988 | "Colorado Christmas" (re-release) | — | Sessions Presents: Christmas Wishes |
Notes
- A^ "Some of Shelly's Blues" did not chart when first issued on Liberty. United Artists reissued the title in 1971, at which time it charted.
- B^ "Make a Little Magic" also peaked at number 26 on the Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.[14]
- C^ The recording of "Fire In The Sky" that charted in 1986 and appeared on the Twenty Years of Dirt album is the same recording that had previously been issued on the Liberty label in 1981. Both the reissued single and aforementioned album ascribe phonographic copyright to Liberty Records.
- D^ "Bang, Bang, Bang" was originally released by Rising Tide Records before that label closed; the re-release of the song in 1999 was under DreamWorks Records.
Music videos
 | This section needs additional citations for verification. (September 2012) |
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | "Fire in the Sky" | |
| 1985 | "Modern Day Romance" | Gary Amelon |
| 1986 | "Partners, Brothers and Friends"[15] | Gary Gutierrez |
| 1988 | "I've Been Lookin'" | |
| 1989 | "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" | Bill Pope |
| "When It's Gone" | Joanne Gardner | |
| 1990 | "You Made Life Good Again" | |
| "The Rest of the Dream" | ||
| 1991 | "Mr. Bojangles" (live) | Gerry Wenner |
| "Cadillac Ranch" (live) | ||
| 1992 | "One Good Love" | |
| 1993 | "Little Angel" | |
| 1994 | "Cupid's Got a Gun" | Roger Pistole |
| 1996 | "You Believed in Me" (with Karla Bonoff) |
|
| "Maybe Baby" | ||
| 1997 | "Silent Night" | |
| 1998 | "Bang, Bang, Bang" | Michael McNamara |
| 2002 | "The Lowlands" | Wes Edwards |
| 2022 | "I Shall Be Released"[16] (featuring Larkin Poe) |
|
| "Forever Young" | ||
| "Country Pie" |
DVD & VHS
NGDB as contributing artists
| Year | Album Title by Artist | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Paint Your Wagon soundtrack, by various artists | "Hand Me Down That Can O' Beans" |
| 1975 | Banjoman soundtrack, by various artists | Live version of "Battle Of New Orleans" and "Diggy Liggy Lo" |
| 1978 | Wild And Crazy Guy, by Steve Martin | "King Tut", as the Toot Uncommons |
| 1986 | Tribute to Steve Goodman, by various artists | "Face On The Cutting Room Floor", live |
| 2003 | Tennessee Stud, by Doc Watson | "Tennessee Stud" |
| 2004 | This Is Americana, by various artists | "Gold Watch & Chain", with Kris Kristofferson [23] |
| 2004 | The Unbroken Circle - The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family, by various artists | "Gold Watch & Chain", with Kris Kristofferson [24] |
| 2004 | Merlefest Live! The Best of 2003, by various artists | "American Dream"[25] |
| 2005 | Telluride Bluegrass Festival: 30 Years, by various artists | "Fishin' In The Dark", live[26] |
References
External links
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