Behind the scenes of the first Americana album, fifty years later.
Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Making of a Landmark Albumon Amazon and bookstore websites.
McEuen, who left NGDB in 2017, says the book should be interesting to anyone who enjoys bluegrass or country music. “I don’t think you need to be a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fan [to like the book],” he says. “You could be a Roy Acuff fan, or [a fan of] Earl Scruggs or Doc Watson or anyone. You’ll be opened up to another side of them, as well as the Dirt Band guys.”
The book doesn’t have a straightforward narrative, and includes McEuen's numerous personal essays. There are reflections on his childhood in California, and passages about people from his life and music career, including members of NGDB, collaborators on theMcEuen asked documentarians Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns to pen the book's forward. “They said, ‘Sure,’" he recalls.
The record wouldn't have happened if it weren't for a fortuitous summer gathering of musicians in 1971 in Boulder, according to McEuen, who spent much of the ’70s and ’80s living in Denver. Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson, who were already considered bluegrass legends, had been playing shows in Boulder, and McEuen approached them separately to ask if they would join in on an NGDB album.
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