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Their earliest incarnation was as a large, fun-loving jug-band/trad folk group in mid-1960s California. Eventually the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band...
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Loudly and ProudlyLOCATION: Concert , Libby, MTYEAR: 1994TAGS: teenager, family, concertPUBLISHED: March 10, 2008I grew up in the middle of nowhere Montana, a small town that had exactly one radio station—all country, all the time. Despite my disinterest in hunting dogs, beer, and all those who had been done wrong, country music was impossible to escape (I still know the lyrics to an alarming number of songs about tractors). Every year the town held a festival to celebrate its Scandinavian heritage and as part of this, they brought in a singer or group to perform at the culmination of event. And my family, determined to bond, always attended. The one that I best remember was the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I was just stepping into adolescence and all of the disgruntlement that accompanies it, and I did not want to go see any two-stepping, Stetson-wearing group croon about their cows. I would hate it; I knew I would hate it. Then the show started. The band was jumping and dancing and having more fun in that two hours space than most people can cram into a week. When the opening chords for Fishin' in the Dark began to sound the crowd went wild and the singers, who had stepped off stage, leapt back into the spotlight decked out in bright yellow ‘Gone Fishing’ T-shirts and began to limbo under the microphone stand. Country music never rocked harder, and that night I began my list of songs to which, with no consideration of genre, I would proudly know—and loudly sing—all of the words.
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