NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND RELEASES "DIRT DOES DYLAN"

Out today, Dirt Does Dylan finds the Dirt Band recording their favorites from Bob Dylan’s catalog with a little 

help from their friends

It’s been a few years since Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Jeff Hanna paid $4 to see Bob Dylan play at his high school auditorium in Long Beach, California, but the fire lit inside of Hanna that night still burns as strong as ever. Hanna and his Dirt Band bandmates have had quite a career of their own since then, introducing folk, bluegrass, and country music—what would later be termed “Americana”—to a whole new generation of fans. Their latest effort, however, is a full-circle return with Dirt Does Dylan, a ten-track album highlighting some of the gems from Dylan’s vast catalog with the help of three new band members: fiddle specialist Ross Holmes; singer-songwriter and bass player Jim Photoglo (who wrote one of the Dirt Band’s biggest hits, “Fishin’ in the Dark”); and Dirt Band founder Jeff Hanna’s son, the absurdly talented singer and guitarist Jaime Hanna. Produced and recorded by Ray Kennedy at Room & Board Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, Dirt Does Dylan finds a generation-spanning Dirt Band paying an appropriately great tribute to arguably the greatest songwriter of the 20th century with the help of friends like Jason Isbell, The War & Treaty, Steve Earle, and Rosanne Cash, to name a few.

Track Listing for "Dirt Does Dylan":

1. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You

2. Girl from the North Country

3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

4. Country Pie

5. I Shall Be Released (ft. Larkin Poe)

6. She Belongs to Me

7. Forever Young

8. The Times They Are A-Changin’ (ft. Rosanne Cash, Jason Isbell, Steve Earle, and The War and Treaty)

9. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

10. Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

Catch Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on Tour:

May 20 - Papillion, NE - Sumtur Amphitheater

May 21 - Chesterfield, MO - Chesterfield Amphitheatre

May 22 - Louisville, KY - Iroquois Amphitheater

June 9 - Eureka Springs, AR - Eureka Springs City Auditorium

June 10 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater

June 11 - Salina, KS - Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts

June 24 - Grand Junction, CO - Country Jam 2022

June 25 - North Platte, NE - Nebraskaland Days

July 14 - Davenport, IA - Rhythm City Casino Resort

July 15 - Decorah, IA - Winneshiek County Fair

July 16 - Chicago, IL - City Winery

July 21 - Marietta, OH - Peoples Bank Theatre

July 22 - Shipshewana, IN - Blue Gate Performing Arts Center

July 23 - Twin Lakes, WI - Country Thunder Wisconsin 2022

Aug. 3 - McMinnville, OR - Yamhill County Fair & Rodeo

Aug. 4 - Boise, ID - The Egyptian Theatre

Aug. 6 - Bellvue, CO - Mishawaka Amphitheatre

Aug. 12 - Hinckley, MN - Grand Country Nights 2022

Aug. 13 - South West Fargo, ND - Lights Amphitheater

Aug. 18 - Three Forks, MT - Headwaters Country Jam 2022

Aug. 19 - Rexford, MT - Abayance Bay Marina

Aug. 27 - Gilbert, AZ - Higley Center For The Performing Arts

Aug. 28 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre

Sept. 2 - Orange Park, FL - Thrasher-Horne Center

Sept. 3 - Mill Spring, NC - The Earl Scruggs Music Festival 2022

Sept. 17 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium

Nov. 4 - Clearwater, FL - Bilheimer Capitol Theatre

For more information on Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, tour dates and Dirt Does Dylan, please visit nittygritty.com. 

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