Final leg of ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour announced, last show June 18th at Denver’s Mission Ballroom; Watch the “Nashville Skyline” music video today.
In a recent LA Times piece titled “Why the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s musical bridge between generations still matters today,” the long-beloved band’s founding member, Jeff Hanna, talks through enough career-defining moments for three or four lifetimes, yet the Dirt Band is still adding on to the long list of what sets them apart. Within the piece lies the premiere of the band’s “Nashville Skyline” music video, a whiskey-soaked take on Nashville days-gone-by, highlighting the writing trio of Hanna, his son and bandmate Jaime, and his wife and celebrated songwriter Matraca Berg, and just this week, the Dirt Band added one last slew of new tour dates to their ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour; this final leg dubbed a pretty self-explanatory 60 Years of Dirt.
Part of the magic concoction fueling six decades of the Dirt Band? A simple love for writing, recording, and performing. “We’ve never stopped making music…sometimes we were the Toot Uncommons with Steve Martin, or playing as Linda Ronstadt’s back-up band for a minute, but it was always great music,” Hanna tells LA Times writer Holly Gleason. And still today, they’re up against a whole new environment, not much like the road days past, but continuing to add days to their farewell rounds. “The amount of eye rolls you get from saying ‘Farewell Tour,’ because it’s so abused,” jokes Hanna. “But the rigors of touring, especially with travel the way it is…” Reflecting on the recording process of their latest EP, Night After Night, Hanna echoes the idea that it’s still all about the music. “We had the same kind of fun we did when we started,” he says. “Sixty years in, what more is there?”
This week, the Dirt Band announced the final leg of their ALL THE GOOD TIMES tour: a June jaunt through the Plains and into the great American West, culminating in a grand return to Denver, this time at the Mission Ballroom on June 18th. This final run of dates is in addition to an already busy Spring schedule anchored by a very special show at Nashville’s Grand Old Opry House on May 13th—the actual 60th anniversary, to the day, of the band’s formation.
Tickets for all announced ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour dates are on sale now. A full list of tour dates can be found below or at nittygritty.com/tour. For those who have yet to check out the Night After Night EP, please do so right here.
For more information, or to purchase tickets, please visit nittygritty.com/tour.
About Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band—formed in 1966 as a Long Beach, California jug band that scored its first charting single in 1967 and embarked on a very successful self-propelled ride through folk, country, rock ‘n’ roll, pop, bluegrass, and Americana—is currently on the second year of its All The Good Times: The Farewell Tour. For nearly six decades, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has entertained audiences with its top-shelf musicianship, groundbreaking trilogy of Will The Circle Be Unbroken albums and timeless hits such as “Mr. Bojangles,” “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream),” “Modern Day Romance,” “Workin’ Man (Nowhere To Go),” and “Fishin’ in the Dark.” Now with its farewell tour, the multiple GRAMMY, CMA, and IBMA Award-winning band that has carried a torch for American country and roots music for nearly 60 years is in the process of saying so long to the highways and byways they’ve crossed an unimaginable number of times throughout their career while simultaneously celebrating their artistry and staying power with the release of new music.