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Thought it would get annoying but it didn't! Bit too long.
I love bluegrass so this was very enjoyable. I don't love that it's 2 discs and 2+ hours long. Also, the confederate flags on the cover don't give me good feelings.
Fun and enjoyable in parts but SO LONG. Turned into a real slog
That's what you call roots music I guess. I appreciate the deep feeling, quality and honesty of these bluegrass and country tunes. Just not my thing
A nice rubberneck hotel will put this album on high rotation. I must’ve been in the right zone, and really liked it
Probably closer to a 5/10 than a 6/10, its not bad, just very long
Country. Divertido pero muy largo. 2 horas
There's some good stuff on here, but lots of not so great stuff. 3/5.
Meh.
Thats A LOT of bluegrass!
Great country/gospel/bluegrass blend, although some of the songs tend to start sounding alike.
was good
Ok but a bit too much of it
Not too bad folk/country.
didn't listen to it all - good one to cricle back to
Im not much of a blue-grass fan, but this was actually fairly enjoyable, but it is WAY too long (nearly 2 hours on the original), and does not have neary enough variety to justify that length. I like the snippits of conversation though. Overall, while I probably wont come back to it, it was still enjoyable
If that’s the sort of thing you really like, then you’ll really like that sort of thing. This was a weird compilation of country and folk music that really didn’t speak to me. It wasn’t bad music, just not something I’ll ever revisit.
This is less of an album and more of a hostage situation. You’re telling me I must listen to over 2 hours of traditional country music? I’m up for almost anything but that is a tough ask. Committing to listening was sort of like driving home after eating really spicy food … the closer I got to the end of the ride, the more I could feel the need for significant relief building up inside of me but I knew I had to wait until the the very end to experience it. I tried to be as tactful as I could without saying that this Nitty Gritty was pretty shitty.
That there was country music. Old time bluegrass rural America country music. The stuff we make jokes about, but honestly I didn't hate it. A few decent songs, nothing I'll ever revisit but something I'm glad i was exposed to.
Day 373 A few songs I enjoyed, most of it just sounded like Dukes of Hazard chase music to me. It was way too long as well. Highlights Dark as a dungeon Tennessee Stud
ugh, 2 stars. The whole thing reminded me of Billy Strings Dust in a Baggie
rym 3.71 Traditional Bluegrass/Traditional Country 比起专辑更像一张精选集。而且因为时长太长，曲目也有些同质化，反而让人提不起再听一遍的兴趣。当然，各个乐曲轮番登上主角位，各领风骚的编排，以及整体旋律的悦耳性，依然是无可否认的。 pick: 此专辑不作pick
O my god 2 hours 10 minutes of torture. I'm out of order so listened to this immediately after the Duke Ellington double album. Too much. Apparently this bridges the old country to the new country rock. According to the generator I quite like country rock but I think this is just dreary. Couldn't listen to the entire double album in one go as had to take a break. Actually listening to it while visiting country USA, lots of big pickups on the road, but that didn't help to inspire me. The talking bits could surely have been cut, just like in Duke Ellington's double album that I listened to last. I'd have given it only a one but some of the stories were a little bit interesting.
- Nashville Blues is a banger - Lonesome Fiddle Blues also good
A few fun tracks and a few snoozers. I wish modern country music still sounded more like this.
Way too long for what it has to offer. Give me a third, I’d rate it two stars higher because a lot of this stuff is pretty pleasant. I think I’ve gotten my country music share for the next 5 years.
i liked the instrumental hoe-down at the beginning of the second album but this was a slog for me.
This was really not for me.
Not bad. 130 minutes of it is a bit intense though. Had to split it throughout the day, found by the end of the day it wasn’t meant to be for me. Can appreciate the musicianship though.
Album 275. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (https://open.spotify.com/album/1dfvcFHSox0YKcPMxDrLIs?si=4ADxcX1ERMKyYaesHUqK7w) — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1972) Oh my... 42 country songs... 2 hours of country... It was a lot of country. Yeah, it's good. But it's too much, too incohesive for an album.. Since I'm rating it as an album, it lowers the score. 2/5 Liked: — Grand Ole Opry Song — You Are My Flower — Tennessee Stud — The End Of The World — I Saw The Light — Avalanche
Not even all of the fun little references to Nashville could overcome the fact that I'm sick of the '67-'71 Country Albums of doom and despair that this list is pushing on me. EDIT: After listening a touch more, at the very least, the objective quality of the music is growing on me. I can't absolve the album entirely for the fact that it is 2 whole hours, but I don't truly hate it. It's kinda fun, giving it an additional star.
I got about halfway through before I gave up. I dig me some bluegrass, but moderation is the key. Particularly with sleepy ol time bluegrass. 2.5
I can't manage all of this!! There are some things to like - the close vocal harmonies are great when they kick in, and some of the songs are quite cute in terms if lyrics, but the rest of the vocals are all irritating individually, and I just can't deal when the fiddle starts spaffing all over everything. My time is precious - I gave it a good go!!
Za obliti se u nekoj konobi dobro! Slušati to satima - teško 😄 ali čega sam se sve naslušala tu, nije ni loše, toliko su mi kriteriji pali. 2/5, 4/10
ra coveriaq da am dros country fuckass albumia
5/10
I love me a bit of country/Deep South music, but this is a bit too much. 2/5
I love it when bands leave studio chatter on the album. Not the biggest country music fan, though, and as such this album goes on way too long. I did watch a short documentary a while ago on the making of the album so was looking forward to hearing it. Ended up just being a slog. I get why it’s here, and the musicianship is top notch, but it just isn’t my thing.
Too long ... I felt like I was on an endless tow truck mission in GTA listening to Rebel Radio
No way I’m listening to 2 hours of this
2.5
2.3/5
I don't hate country, but I'm not a country fan and this was a loooooot. I can handle it being on in the background while I do something else, but it's not an album I would ever sit down and listen to
This is way too old school country for me, I can feel my teeth falling out as I listen. I'm not going to get through the whole two hours of this, but I'm giving it a bash at least.
Favorite song: You Are My Flower
De aquí seguramente salga un muy buen disco de bluegrass pero DIOS SANTO QUE COSA MÁS LARGA SE ME HA HECHO ETERNO LO HE TENIDO QUE ESCUCHAR EN CUATRO VECES.
Bleh
Just really longgg!
Should be the Dirt Band
Good folk/country album from the nitty boys
That is really classic country music, a bit too classic for me
Great country and bluegrass record, but it's just far too much country and bluegrass for me.
Some decent tracks in the first half, but my god is this way too long.
On the one hand, an impressive document of musical heritage going to great lengths to honor and respect the traditions of their forebears. On the other hand its 2 hours of twangy yeehaw about riding horses, shooting families, abducting daughters, courting teenagers, and how much god loves them by some crotchety old gatekeepers and confederates.
Getting younger and older country music performers together to record country and bluegrass music is an interesting idea. But, this album went on way too long and was poorly paced. The six instrumentals in a row in the middle should have been dispersed throughout the entire album. It was too much banjo. That is what killed the vibe for me. Every thing after that was just more of the same.
Can't say I liked the music, but they seam to be having fun, so good for them. 4/10
2 hours of bluegrass country music is way too much. Musically it's interesting, but not for 2 hours.
Idk it's too long, I'm tired...
Far too long
It's a decent album. Most of the instrumentals were fun to listen to. It wasn't boring or bad. It was just too long and wasn't very memorable.
today this poor idiot enters country music hell. so first thing i wanna complain about is this album’s length. almost two hours of country music. like who the fuck is able to endure that apart from hardcore country fans. secondly i just really absurdly wanna complain about the dude who plays the fiddle. like he’s fiddling too much in approximately 80% of the songs that i have the patience for finishing. he wont fucking stop until he died. or break his neck. sounds crazy, y’know. but it’s just a reference to the hit musical fiddler on the roof and i love it too much. wait a minute the fiddler on the album is already dead. glad to know that. but anyway here’s a 2/5!
1. opry - 2 2. zunny - 2 3. bluez - 2 4. flouuer - 1 5. jeuuel - 2 6. dark - 1 7. ztud - 0 8. rag - 2 9. uureck - 0 10. end - 2 11. light - 2 12. mountain - 1 13. hammer - 1 14. lozing - 1 15. honky - 1 16. mind - 2 17. zhoez - 1
It's full of classics that I respect but wouldn't really sing along with and it is over two hours long. I respect it as long as it never comes over for beers again.
I like a few songs but this was painfully long. I feel like a shorter representation of this band would have been a lot better.
This is what I wish country music was. Not really my thing, but the music wasn’t bad. Too much talking and random bs which disrupted the flow and an otherwise decent bluegrass album. Very long, which without the random talking bits, would’ve been more reasonable. 2.5/5
This is sprawling, but some definite nuggets in there. High 2s.
In a nutshell: "let's do it the first time, and to hell with the rest" I was led to believe that this was a studio album. It is, and it's not. Two track master, all songs performed in one or two takes. Press record on one tape and let it roll as each act did their thing. You get the tuning, the banter with the band and exchanges between the artist and the producer. That part annoyed me, as it interrupted the flow of what an album is. But I guess the intention was twofold - produce an organic listening experience, as if you were there in the studio, and to infuse the old ways with the new. Having a list of must hear albums needs to include as many genres as possible. We don't have a title that represents bluegrass and Appalachian folk music. I would recommend this album instead of The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, that's for sure. Overall: 4/10
A little too country for me.
Too long, not much standing out, pretty basic...
I guess the circle is unbroken because this album is over two hours. Some all right music but I got bored. Top tracks: "Grand Ole Opry Song," "Black Mountain Rag"
Felt about an hour and a half too long. Just kept going, and going, and going.
Eh, not for me. Fun music but not my style.
Were it an hour long, it would've been a 3/5. These guys can play, no doubt about it, but I really don't like country and bluegrass that much. Since it's over 2 hours long, it's a 2/5. TOO DAMN LONG!
Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Langweilig auf Dauer.
Za dlugie
The album started fine. Country and bluegrass isn’t really my genre, but we are all on this journey to broaden our horizons, right? Unfortunately, this was a double album and it dragged on and on and on. The studio outtakes got pretty boring pretty fast too. Luckily, after almost two hours, the circle became unbroken and I could move on
4/10 Good at times but so very long. So long that I just had to start skipping songs in the second half just to get through this marathon of a listen. There were highlights, and I really like the snippets of conversation peppered throughout, which really take you to the time and add a kind of charm. Best track: Dark As A Dungeon Will I revisit?: No
Munspel är nice och många instrumentala låtar var ändå balla, men albumet är alldeles för långt och alldeles för amerikanskt. Gav upp efter drygt halva.
Fint med lite bluegrass även fast det inte är min favorit-genre. Skivan är också otroligt lång. Mellanmjölk!
I have a hell of a lot of respect for what they did here, bringing together legends of an older sound and new artists. But I don’t need over 2 hours of it
42 country/folk songs in a row is far too much for me. It's too jolly for a 1 so 2 it is
Ok 2/5
not my people. I can appreciate them as musicians but I'll never listen to this again.
Mrd
this album was a fucking challenge. it felt like the nitty gritty dirt band knew that one day i'd make repeated claims that i love music and decided to test the limits of my resolve. and honestly.... i'm not sure i passed their test. 1 hour, 49 minutes and 2 seconds of bluegrass might just be too much for me to handle in a single sitting. or at least as close as i could get to a single sitting, since it was so long i had to take a bathroom break in the middle. i managed to lock in for the first hour or so and was mostly enjoying it, especially the performances of merle travis' "dark as a dungeon" and "nine-pound hammer", but by the time the run of instrumentals in the second half had ended and the album moved back into more vocal tracks the fatigue had kicked in and it became a real struggle to continue. i wanna say i liked the title track and "both sides now", but it's impossible to judge how much of that was just down to their position at the end of the album and the knowledge that once i'd listened to them, i could finally take off my headphones and move on with my life. as much as i appreciate the band's goal of bridging the gap between generations of country musicians, by the end i was very much ready to clock out. unless you're a true country music head it's probably best to listen to this in the background while doing something else rather than attempting to fully engage with it... or maybe just skip straight to the bonus tracks for the blazing performance of "foggy mountain breakdown". imo they really fumbled the bag by not including it in the original release, but i guess even the dirt band must've hit their limit by that point. whatever the case, i think it's gonna be quite some time before i'm ready to listen to bluegrass again. good lord.....
What a painful 2+ hours. If you're a bluegrass/country fan, I'm sure this is cool, but it is too long, and too bland. Absolutely good playing but I will happily forget this record. 2
I said this earlier, I do have a fondness for country like this, but this was just a bit too long... I survived the whole listen though. More than can be said of other albums I've had to deal with. Favorite tracks: Flint Hill Special, Togary Mountain, Earl's Breakdown, Orange Blossom Special, Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
I tried but not my cup of tea especially over 2 hours of it.
Not bad, I just wish there were a few more intrumentals with a spirited banjo and a violin
Too long
ну это ехало банджо через банджо точно не для меня))
so looooong :(((
Country can be nice in small doses. Not in an album of a 2 hours and 9 minutes lenght.
Interessant konsept. Spille inn historisk viktige coutry/bluegrass låter. Problemet e bare at de fleste av låtene har mye kulere originalinspillinger.
Æ like musikken, men 38 sanga e 26 for mange. Tenk kor bra den kunne vært hvis dem sikta sæ inn på 35-40 min!
Kommer meg ikke forbi låt 5.
I'm sure this double album is pure gold for the true Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fans out there.
I wasn't liking the first couple of track, but I must admit "Nashville Blues" was quite enjoyable. The vocals, guitar and other instruments are good, but, at risk of sounding pretentious, sitting through 2 hours and 9 minutes for 42 70's country songs is not my thing, unless it's for a few specific artists that don't include the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Probably not an objectively bad album, but I don't care for it and I didn't like it enough to sit on the fence with a 3. 2/5
Just not for me
1.5 I’m giving it what I’m giving because I want to acknowledge that I at least recognize the musical ability involved here. Obviously these are extremely technically adept musicians of their craft. But when I got this album yesterday, I jumped to Wiki to read the history and context of it. I read it, and thought “I bet I know exactly what this sounds like,” and goddamit, I was right. Just two hours of the same goddam thing. I get it! Make it 30 minutes long! So fucking endless! I’d get to a song I kinda perk up at, look to see where I was in the track list, and realize I still have 20 songs to go. It got so cloying. The banter before the songs, the jamming, the twangling and fiddling. 2 hours of that. One side was almost all instrumentals and that was the best part for sure.
A nice collection of music.
If you're in the mood for nearly two hours of straight, unfiltered hillbilly music, Will the Circle Be Unbroken delivers exactly that, and not much else. This 1972 triple album (or its various reissues) brings together the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with a who's-who of country and bluegrass legends like Roy Acuff, Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Merle Travis. The intent was noble: bridge the generational gap between young long-haired rock/country fans and the old guard of traditional American roots music. In theory, it's a beautiful tribute to the circle of tradition. In practice? It's mostly just okay. The performances are competent and respectful, but the energy feels polite and a bit flat for such a stacked lineup. Too many tracks drag on with that same mid-tempo, earnest delivery, pleasant enough in small doses, but exhausting over the full runtime. The mediocre hillbilly music vibe is real charming for a few songs, then it starts blending together into one long, twangy blur. Standouts exist (the title track with its emotional weight, some of the instrumental showcases), but they're outnumbered by filler that never quite catches fire. 4/10
how do they tell the songs apart
A collaboration album with many bluegrass and country/western artists might be someone’s dream album, but it certainly isn’t mine.
Not really my jam, but I didn't mind it at all. Until I discovered there was another hour and a half to go. Ridiculously, self-indulgently long. Tight 45 to an hour would have been at least a 3.
country met banjo's en samenzang... er bestaat een markt voor... er mag gerust een gat in de markt komen om dit genre in zijn geheel te verzwelgen
*deep breaths* I made it through! What a saga. I don't listen to classic hoedown country music, and this album will not change that. While I tried to appreciate the artistry and the soundscapes, I just couldn't get into this one. Too many vocal breaks and choral crooning for my liking. The Joni Mitchell instrumental cover was a treat though! I'm the end I'm glad I listened, as this whole project, to me, is about expanding my listening habits and music knowledge. This just taught me more about what I don't like than about what I do. 3/10
I respect the talent here, and I do like some bluegrass, but this is waaaayyyy too much folksy, twangy, chattin' and chewin' bluegrass for me.
Aquela cabra que só fala cantando do filme da chapeuzinho vermelho
542/1001
The opening tricked me. I thought it was all going to be 'jeebuz lurves me' country music when that woman started. It was actually quite fun for a bit, but nobody needs two hours of banjo-wielding hillbillies. It went awn fur so lawng that ah furgawt ahm even English. Gyuck! The jeebuz woman comes back too for some cyclical cringe. Like hippies but with added inbreeding. What a horribly tacky American way to end a record. Bleh! Oh god! I thought that circle being unbroken was the end. It has another 5 tracks after! The early middle part gets a 3. The length and woman gets a 1. Balanced out at 2 - not listening to that again.
Too long man
2/5 Há poucas músicas que realmente contém melodias ou instrumentação interessantes. A maioria é formulaica e passa desapercebida. O álbum, além disso, funciona mais como uma grande compilação do que uma unidade.
No sé cómo se llama este estilo, creo que bluegrass, pero me parece algo muy incómodo de escuchar. No sé si es bueno o malo, simplemente no estoy preparado para entenderlo.
Mislim da sam imala jednu vrlo dugu disocijativnu epizodu da ovo preživim.
Not actually terrible but I wish I could listen on 2x
I do like some bluegrass music. For example, the album Train a' Comin' by Steve Earle is a perfect album that I love - which is heavily indebted to this type of music. And I do like some old timey country acts like Hank Williams, The Carter Family, Johnny Cash and stuff like that. And I like some more "modern" alternative country like Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt. And I also like some even more modern artists like Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers who mix in this style to their songs. So, when I saw this come up, I was very curious to hear it since it's supposed to be a lot of the artists that started/popularized the bluegrass style brought together by the Nitty Gritty Dirt band as a labor of love in the early '70s. It's basically Bluegrass All-Stars playing Bluegrass Classics. 1st reaction: This is WAY too long. After about the first hour of it I was waiting for it to be done. The version on Spotify has 42 songs but I read on the Wikipedia article that the original release had 38 songs and ended at the "Both Sides Now" instrumental. So I decided early on I would only listen to the first 38. 2nd reaction: I kinda like the instrumentals because they just sound cool and don't have the silly, nasally, twangy voices. But, after like the third or fourth instrumental I started thinking that even all the instrumentals sounded pretty much the same so started losing interest in them too. 3rd reaction: For the songs that I already knew - such as the ones by Hank Williams - I like the originals better. I also like the Byrd's version of "I am a Pilgrim" better than this version too. I also like Willie Nelson's version of "Down Yonder" (from Red Headed Stranger album, 2 years later in 1975) better. 4th reaction: I wonder if Springsteen was aware of the song called "Wreck on the Highway" - since he has a song of the same name. The only similarity between this song and Bruce's song is that the premise of each song is about coming upon a car crash where someone died. 5th reaction: I generally like the songs that Maybelle Carter sings the most. Her voice isn't as annoying as some of the guys. And it's cool to see she was still active in the 1970s. Her original recordings from the 20s and 30s sound like they were beamed in to earth from an ancient time and place - so I was excited to see she was still sounding great after all those years. Doing the math, she was actually only 62 years old when she recorded this - which is only slightly older than I am now. Wow. 6th reaction: The "Sailin' to Hawaii" song was cool - if only because it was a break from the wall of banjo and fiddle sounds. The instrumental guitar version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" (which was the last song) was cool - and was also a nice break from the sound of the rest of the album. 7th Reaction: the song "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" - an instrumental - definitely reminded me of the Charlie Daniels song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Seems like Charlie was certainly inspired by this number. I checked it out online and it turns out that is true. 8th Reaction: I find that some of the more contemporary artists that do "bluegrassy" kind of stuff (like the ones I mentioned in the beginning) are more interesting - I think because the arrangements are better and also the lyrics tend to be better and less corny. At the end of all of this and after 2 listens front to back, I did end up clicking "like" on 16 of these songs - meaning I wouldn't mind them showing up on my automated playlists. On any other record that would basically be a perfect album. This record would have been better as 3 different albums - it's just too long. I read that when it was originally released it was a 3 album set - so I guess they couldn't decide what to cut. And then they later went and did 2 more albums like this with another 20 songs on the 2nd one, and another 28 on the 3rd one. These guys didn't scrimp. Glad I got to hear this - despite it's length. I still added 16 "new" songs to my collection. My dad grew up in a small town in Kentucky. His mom was a holy roller type who wouldn't really let them listen to the radio because it was the "devil's music" - but I like to think some of my ancestors probably got into this kinda stuff back in the day :) Liked songs on Spotify: 16/38 Rating: 2/5
the kind of shit i usually like, ruined beyond recovery by a horrible singer and an absolutely unjustifiable running time
if you cut out all the bull shit it's only 32 minutes long
dnf, not for me
I could do without the Confederate flags. Given the huge cast of musicians and songwriters they drew from, and the repertoire they're playing, it's actually shocking there's not a single black musician represented. It may be top tier bluegrass and string band music, but it also kinda seems like a low-key white identity album.
I guess I'm just not that into country.
As an historic document this is quite interesting. It’s a style of music I generally enjoy, especially the more bluegrass and folk elements. But there’s just too much of it to make an album. And it’s just not a coherent album on any real sense. Which makes it a less good album than the music deserves.
Lowkey reverant.
Musicanship is on point, but good lord, this did NOT need to be 2 hours long
2 valandos 😭 iš esmės nieko blogo, tikrai geros atrinktos country dainos, bet klaisytis tiesiog jų nieko neveikiant labai sunku.
Too country For me
Someone get these guys a producer with the balls to say 'no'
Nice at first but I tuned out pretty quick
Doesn't need to be 2 hours long
Good but getting docked a point for being too long
this album went on forever but it was an okay listen
5/10 fun but won’t really listen to
This is the kind of classic country that I love, I just wish that it was not also done by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Thank you, next
Me cago en el que se le ocurrió hacer un album de 42 canciones y me cago también en el que permitió hacerlo. Las canciones me recuerdan a los capítulos de los Simpson en los que aparece Cletus. El banjo está guay, da buen rollete. Pero enserio, ¿42 temas? 🥲🔫
2 stars but only because I have heard of them but, this album isn't really that good.
I always like the band's name. Too bad it's country. It's not bad music, it just so rarely is appealing to me.
Nah. I do not like this. Way too long. Way too twangy. I mean I'll always say this. This type of country is still way better than modern country. But I still do not like this stuff. The instrumentals were a little more bearable, but still. I do not like country at all.
I’m not listening to this for 2 hours
I guess keep on the sunny side was nice. I really didnt want to listen to more than 5 songs- maybe I would like it idk.
This isn't an album, it's a chore. I like bluegrass. I also like water. I don't want to be waterboarded.
Oh my god, this is so long, no album needs to be over two hours, especially one which sounds the same completely throughout
40 minutes of bluegrass is fine, but 2 hours is ridiculous. This album begins with 5 or so horrible tracks, before slowly improving. It felt like I was stuck in the Deep South. I kinda liked the 2nd disc of "Will the Circle be Unbroken?". Let this be the last long album I'll review in a long time. 2 stars for "Will the Circle be Unbroken?".
If I were keeping track of band’s albums from this list that featured the Confederate flag in the cover, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band would be up by one. Guess we’ll see if any Lynyrd Skynyrd albums make the list to give them some competition (I’m just assuming it’s featured in most of theirs).
Way too long
Their seventh album. Country / Folk. One of the tougher albums to get through of the two hundred and twenty odd albums I've had so far. Track three was a noodly, doodly, diddley doo instrumental, and at that point I knew I was in for a long two hours. Still, I did it. I've heard the album and it's filtered through my brain along with thousands of other albums I've heard in my life. This particular one will get filed away deep out in the back of my conciousness and gather some dust. Anyway, I've this strange urge to watch The Dukes of Hazzard so I am signing off...
Country, 1972 -> 2
Sweet home
Tämä on perinteistä kantria banjoa Cowboy meininkiä
Tried - but too country for me …
Not great.
Wayyyyyy too long.
This list has been going truly bonkers with the albums nobody gives a fuck about lately. I've never heard of this album/artist before, and this is quite possibly the most lost I've been on a genre prediction. Is this gonna be a rock album? It vaguely reminds me of the first pressing cover for Beggar's Banquet, though I already know that I'm far off from the correct answer. Country. I should have known- TWO FUCKING HOURS? That's outrageous. I am forcefully bringing the end segment of my reviews to this point because I need to check why this is in here. Let's see. The book says that there were a lot of collaborators on this album, it sold well and brought country listeners together. Not sold yet - over to Wikipedia I go. Absolutely nothing on there. I guess this has some historical significance and the number of collaborators is pretty impressive, but hmmm. I dunno. I think we can do without a two hour country album. In place of this album, I humbly submit Full Speed Ahead by Pain for inclusion on the list. Anyways, this is fine. Very standard, formulaic country. Not to say that's a bad thing. The vocal performances are solid across the board, and I enjoy the prominent Gaelic influence in some of the instrumentals. Of course, that length is pretty inexcusable and there were more than a few times where I felt the album was just throwing whatever at the wall, especially with the instrumental slump that the album falls into midway through its runtime. Still, there are worse things I could do with two precious hours of my life. Whether it be the daunting tracklist or my ambivalence towards this genre of music, there wasn't much on here which really hooked me. Still, there were some alright cuts. I liked "Grand Ole Opry Song", "Avalanche" and "Both Sides Now". The rest of the songs on here were listenable, but unremarkable.
I despise country so this album was my worst nightmare. 42 songs that, to me, all sound the same. I can’t give it a one star rating because it’s terrible to me, but it’s not completely terrible. I can only take so much banjo, fiddle and nasal singing. A 42 track double album is about 10 times more than I’m able or willing to consume.
Decent for a one time listen, but still this was a slog to get through.
Фігня
Not for me in the slightest, that being said I appreciate the live recording and chatter before some performances begin. If I cared about these people it would be so cool to hear. Still is tbf. “Nashville Blues” was pretty cool
Not my kind of thing. Ok for a few tracks, but it got very samey, and I did not need a double album of it.
Ok but not brilliant
A collection of old-timey songs that somehow manages to make nostalgia feel like a chore. The performances are earnest, sure, but by the third hymn you’re mostly asking yourself why anyone thought this needed revisiting. Comforting? Maybe. Exciting? Not even close.
Album No. 0037 on my list. I'll keep this review rather short. I get that this may have been an important album in country music, but I'm really not that much into bluegrass and this traditional country sound. And to be frank, 2 hours of it was a bit much. 2/5 stars.
2.4 - This was hard going. Sure they are great and its genre defining, but I guess it's hard to listen for such a long time
2.3/5
Als we dan toch country moeten luisteren, dan wel het liefst bluegrass. In die zin is dit met vlagen nog best een leuk album. Het feit dat het zo'n soort super samenwerking is, is voor de echte fans ook smullen neem ik aan. Het grote nadeel is wel dat het twee uur duurt en een soort van skits bevat. Dan kun je met nog zoveel goede wil beginnen aan zo'n album, maar uiteindelijk gaat het geknauw je wat irriteren en ben je opgelucht dat het er eindelijk op zit. Dat maakt zo'n album niet makkelijk te raten. Als je een beetje zelf een selectie hieruit maakt van een half uurtje dan valt hier makkelijk een 3, misschien zelfs wel een 4 uit te slepen. Moet je hier in één keer helemaal doorheen (als niet-liefhebber) dan is het lastig om op iets anders uit te komen dan een 2. Ik vind het eigenlijk toch wel terecht dat het in deze lijst staat. Als je dit koopt en je houdt hiervan dan krijg je wel waar voor je geld. Ik zal de individuele liedjes niet onthouden maar het album wel. Dus in die zin een geinige entry, maar dus wel slechts 2 sterren van mij.
So I have a whole week of albums to catch up on and then I get this two-f**king hour country shit to start with... God give me the strength... 01) Grand Ole Opry Song - 5,5 02) Keep on the Sunny Side - 6,5 03) Nashville Blues - 7,5 04) You Are My Flower - 6,0 05) The Precious Jewel - 5,5 06) Dark as a Dungeon - 6,0 07) Tennessee Stud - 6,0 08) Black Mountain Rag - 6,5 09) Wreck on the Highway - 5,5 10) The End of the World - 5,0 11) I Saw the Light - 6,0 12) Sunny Side of the Mountain - 5,5 13) Nine-Pound Hammer - 6,0 14) Losin' You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet) - 6,5 15) Honky Tonkin' - 5,5 16) You Don't Know My Mind - 5,0 17) My Walkin' Shoes - 6,0 18) Lonesome Fiddle Blues - 6,0 19) Cannonball Rag - 6,0 20) Avalanche - 5,5 21) Flint Hill Special - 5,0 22) Togary Mountain - 5,0 23) Earl's Breakdown - 5,0 24) Orange Blossom Special - 5,0 25) Wabash Cannonball - 5,0 26) Lost Highway - 5,5 27) Doc Watson & Merle Travis First Meeting (Dialogue) - 1,0 28) Way Downtown - 5,5 29) Down Yonder - 5,0 30) Pins and Needles (In My Heart) - 5,5 31) Honky Tonk Blues - 5,5 32) Sailin' on to Hawaii - 5,0 33) I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes - 6,0 34) I am a Pilgrim - 5,5 35) Wildwood Flower - 7,5 36) Soldier's Joy - 5,0 37) Will the Circle Be Unbroken - 7,5 38) Both Sides Now - 5,5 TOTAL: 5,61 (56/100) Current ranking: 592/699
This is way too honky tonk for me.
Fuck this shit
it sounded fine, and i’m sure i would’ve loved this if i was into this genre a lot or if i grew up with it, but i don’t and am not, 2 hours of hardcore country music was challenging
Starting this challenge with this album makes it miserably hard to keep going. The third song reminded me of that one Wii Cow racing game, which made it quite a fun listen. By the fourth song, I was ready to bite my ears off…
This one’s tough, not only because it’s another 2+ hour album, but because that much country and bluegrass in one sitting is a lot to take in. There are a few enjoyable songs here, but as a whole it’s a bit much. Keeping all the rambling between tracks didn’t help either.
Love the sound, less the godliness
Lubię country i folk. Folk lubię nawet bardzo, ale na Boga! Ponad dwie godziny ekstremalnego country to już lekka przeginka! Gdyby było to krótsze to dałabym może 5/10, może nawet 6 w zależności od doboru utworów, ale tak? 4/10 i nigdy więcej.
Will My Patience Be Unbroken? No.
The beautiful sound of fucking your sister.
Very washboard band. Probably fun live
I've made onto disc 2, but yep, bluegrass is not for me. I understand the album is important because it bridges old bluegrass artists to the 70's generation, but itbis not too digestable. I wonder if Robert Dimery could not care to dig into bluegrass and just popped this album in the list as a bluegrass representative. 2/5
dogwater
My third country album in a row (yes, I'm God's strongest soldier). Sorry, but there's no way I'll listen to all 42 songs on this; 17 were more than enough. Musically, it doesn't sound that bad (the best tracks were the instrumental ones), but as a whole, it's just not for me
Oh boy. This is VERY country - gritty or dirty it ain't - and there's a LOT of it. Bad start. But as far as positives go I liked many of the instrumental numbers, and was generally charmed by the quaintness of it all, particularly the earnest, amiable pre-song chatter. I have no idea who most of these people were but the sense of reverence between (who I presume to be) veteran bluegrass legends did rub off on me somewhat. Happy enough to have been introduced to this one, even though I won't return to it. 2.5
The album was considered a breakthrough in bridging generational and musical differences between the old guard of Nashville, Tennessee, and the younger country rock movement (of the 1970s). So important historically, but herp-de-derp country music doesn’t make my 1001 albums! 2⭐️ (for historical reasons)
About 90 mins too much country music for me
Lots of banjo. Country standards
2 fucking hours of banjo, no thanks
Can't stand this whiney music
This whole album sounds like a Jimmy Dean sausage commercial.
Досить цікавйи досвід. Я б навряд цей альбом з такими традиційним кантрів увімкнув би. Насправді дуже багато хороших пісень. Проблема самого альбому, що такий формат кантрі має свої музичні стандарти і звучить все не дуже варіативно. Якщо це додатково накласти на тривалість альбому, то в якийсь момент ці перебори гітарні потроху починають підгружати.
Very nice
There are places for bluegrass in this world, but on a double album coming out of speakers in my home is not one of the them.
There was a night, I think searching out a faddish eatery, where I remember walking through the West End of London and being a taken aback, not by the garish vehicles or distracting relative cleanliness of the streets, but by the number of brands advertising that I’d simply never heard of. A whole universe of stuff that had never needed to tell me it existed, and so didn’t. I feel something similar with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; while I might expected to discover a flash in the pan group with a respectable couple of hundred thousand listeners, in fact the group has been recording music for 60 years and still reports monthly listeners in the 5-6 million bracket. Atop that, this record’s a kind of living museum piece. An ensemble cast of important musicians from genres as diverse as bluegrass and honky tonk (sorry, sorry), brought together to kind of live-instantiate the shift from tradition to electrification. With that said, the record itself feels appropriately self-knowing; obviously indebted to the hokey rhythms and bowing swings of what came before, but also clear-eyed about what it feels is the future of the genre (and often charming about pointing the way, too). Everything here is done with love. While I won’t soon rush to listen again, I feel grateful for the experience. (I was at one point reminded of The Magnetic Field’s “A chicken with its head cut off”; a silly ditty, but one obviously loaded with affection for the sort of thing conveyed by the Nittys.) I couldn’t tell you the name of a single one of those brands I saw that night in west London, but I can now tell you where you need to go if you’re looking for a decisive moment the history of the US’ dominant folk traditions (as they combined with rock n’roll) or need evidence of it in a retrospective format featuring key players drawn from across genre and generational lines. And that’s a lot cooler than knowing where to buy an overexpensive watch, for sure.
Have you ever been to Frontierland in the Magic Kingdom? That's what this album is. It's like listening to the Country Bear Jamboree or the music on the old Splash Mountain. And as enjoyable as those can be, I don’t want to listen to that for two hours straight. That's not to say this doesn't have merits. The guitar, violin, etc. playing is excellent, as are many of the harmonies. I just don't need 2 hours of this sound. Add in that it is a bunch of remakes and not original music, leaves this one towards the bottom of the barrel. Still giving it a 2 though, because this isn’t a band that is devoid of talent.
I have a lot of questions coming out of this one. Did it need to be two hours? How much shorter would it have been had they cut most of the instrumentals? How much shorter would it have been had they cut a lot of the useless studio chatter? And Who the hell do these people think they are? I'm sorry, but even if you absolutely love this genre of music, I find it hard to believe that you would also just be cool with this album being more than two hours long. Like, it's an insane listen. You couldn't possibly keep track of this thing. But let's take a step back. My ire towards this album is probably largely undue. I don't know the genre well enough to properly criticize or review this album fairly. I guess if you know all the country standards, that makes it a little easier. But I didn't know any of these songs until the title track, which comes at the end. It was a slog at times, and it's really easy to get lost in the instrumentals. They were fine, but there's too many. They felt like complete filler. This didn't need to be a triple album. I'm also left wondering if the band is even considered a standout artist in their genre. Their name feels corny and forced to me, but the musicianship is pretty incredible, I have to admit. The production, too, is stellar. But the content just isn't my thing. Make this a single album and I'm all for a fun country romp that ends after an hour. Double it in length, add filler in the form of studio chatter and instrumentals, and I'm out. Two stars. Standout Tracks: Nashville Blues, Tennessee Stud, Black Mountain Rag, You Don't Know My Mind, Avalanche, Togary Mountain, Earl's Breakdown, Will the Circle Be Unbroken
I can appreciate the musicianship but it’s not a genre I enjoy
This is some fine pickin' but man does it go on way too long. This should've been split into 2 albums. Cool for a genre that this album came out in 1972 and still sounds like songs coming out today. Doesn't necessarily stick out though but a fine listen. 4.75/10 (2.375/5)
The Good: It’s an easy question… The Bad: Uncertain if the band will like the answer… The Ugly: Double album... I knew of the band name when I saw the album pop up this morning… what I wasn’t ready for was the genre. I thought it was going to be some kind of stoner rock… Though I could spend minutes explaining why it is plausible that one should listen to this album at least once in their lifetime, I fear that I am going to be tarred and feathered, in good hillbilly style, for wasting people’s time. Yes, this is detrimental to American culture, so is throat singing to Bhuddist culture, yet I’m sure there isn’t a single throat chanting album on this list, and if there were, I am pretty certain it won’t last close to 2 hours… And to think that there is a Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 to this album… 2* for musicianship, it would have been 3 had it not been for that same annoying little mandolin lick being played...
I'm sure this is a good collection of bluegrass classics by great musicians. As someone who doesn't have much contact with said genre, I don't really know. I can only say that I'm not impressed enough to listen more to all of it. It just sounds to similar and I hear many of these songs in better version by other artists. 'Tennessee Stud' interpreted by Johnny Cash is way cooler!
Cowgirls is the only thing I find appealing in cowboy life More or less the same song on repeat for two hors, interrupted by some old farts talking about nothing
2 hours?! And it's not even some deluxe version of the album but the original? That is one long album. Honestly, I would've liked this more if it was a lot shorter. Perfect length for an album according to me is around 40 min. This is way too long. There are some nice bluegrass and country music in here but there are also some very long and tedious jamming sessions. It's not bad it's just way too long and overstays its welcome.
2 hours of the same sounding country music in the morning at work did not help my crashout
Fine country/bluegrass. Just isn’t what I’m generally wanting to listen to
i really fucking hate this cover LMFAO but jackson is cute and the banjos got me after the one hour mark....
Maybe 1.5. Not the worst but def not for me
It's got some energy to it, and they're musically talented, but... *dramatic sigh*
Über zwei Stunden Country ist schon ein bisschen heftig. Eine Auswahl der Songs hätte es auch getan und ich hätte einem kürzeren Album mit den besten 15 Stücken wohl auch eine bessere Bewertung gegeben. Ich mag auch nicht, wenn am Anfang eines Songs noch Ausschnitte vom Aufnehmen im Studio zu hören sind. Das kommt bei diesem Album leider sehr oft vor.
OOOH JA, Old school country. Wel 2 fucking uur.. Even aanzien of dit allicht voor mij zerlfs teveel van het goede wordt. Heerlijk eerste nummer overigens, ze springen er direct in. In het 2e nummer in ene een vrouwelijke zangeres, ik hoop dat die afwisseling blijft. Leuk. Tennessee Stud is wel een parelnummer. Het is wel echt allemaal heel hillbilly country. Begrijp mij niet verkeerd, ik houd er van, maar 2 uur banjo gepingel... Ben bang dat ik dat niet ga volhouden. Sorry, ondanks dat ik echt zeer van deze muziek houdt, is dit album echt veelste lang en veelste van hetzelfde. Binnen country zijn er genoeg manieren om af te wisselen, maar dat heeft deze band niet geweten. Deze nummers zijn door continue hetzelfde banjo riedeltje niet van elkaar te onderscheiden. Dit worden helaas 2 sterren. Was het een album van 30-45 min geweest 5. FAV: Tennessee Stud, I Saw the light
More than TWO HOURS of country music?? I didn’t mind everything on here, but this is just a way too long runtime.
guys im so tired of the banjo and the oklahoma dad music.... it wasnt terrible but TWO hours??? criminal. fav: Nashville Blues
2,5
J - 2/5 Best Track - "I Saw The Light" F - 1/5
Not heard this one but held no surprises. Good album though.
Niet mijn ding en echt veel te lang
Folk
Not my vibe
Non mi è piaciuto questo album e due ore sono davvero troppe. DNF
Слишком много во всех смыслах, но не без бэнгеров. Лучшая песня - Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
This just really isn’t my kind of music.
Respect the skill of the instrumentation. Vocal performances and songwriting are very throwback country and bluegrass jams. Unfortunately just doesn’t really resonate with me.
Not my style
Bluegrass or country? Don't really care tbh. One of the instrumental tracks was ok but the rest was just too much - too long, too repetitive and too country/too bluegrass for me.
Didn't like the multiple songs of them like setting up
Twangy. Long.
i'm sure this is good if you like bluegrass.
Not into it
Blind album and artist. Yee stars / haw stars. I swear if there is another 2 hr bluegrass album though, I may use my pretend 6 six shooter and put my horse outta misery with myself before the dysentery gets me.
not for me donkey, also too long
Better than expected but why does it need to be 2hrs long ??
This is so country it’s almost comical. Seems like a different language. They sure love their strings. A lot sounds the same. Don’t hate this album, it’s just not my fave. And way too long.
I've never really been much of a bluegrass or country or gospel fan. This album is heavy on all those things and I'm still not a fan
ok for ten minutes, but for two hours? woof
2 hour long country album... instrumentals were good at least
2h of country. I stopped after 20 minutes, got the point. Stand-out: You Are My Flower
Faaaaaark, that's a lot. I don't think I can do it. Made it about 30-40% of the way in. I think I get the gist. Lots of banjos and irrelevant musical history from some foreign country Maybe a two because it's not as bad as Morrissey.
No en ihan ymmärrä. Miksi kaksi tuntia (covereita)? Sinänsä taitavasti soitettu ja laulettu enkä varsinaisesti ole ärsyyntynyt.
Het album laat er direct geen twijfel over bestaan. Dit wordt 2 schijven lang luisteren naar snaarwerk met Amerikaans geknauw. Daar bestaat ook nog wel variatie in en dat merken we. Het album begint vooral vrolijk. Ik zou het nooit uit mezelf opzetten, maar het hoeft ook zeker niet uit. Maar na een paar nummers beginnen de energietrekkende lange tonen / lettergrepen. En daarvoor is twee schijven vol gewoon veel te lang. 1,5 ster.
I just finished this album and my head is just so tired of banjos and fiddles... If this was a quarter of it's length, it would've been good. The talking before, between and after songs gets old really quickly. TIL Dark As A Dungeon was made by this band..
not a country fan
Not a country fan, but can appreciate it. 2 hours a bit much country for one day though. Yeehaw.
I had a whole thing written here but it didn’t get saved and I can’t be bothered to re-write it completely. The TLDR was this - I appreciate its conscious objection to the “pop country” sound of the time. For that, it’s respectable to lean so hard into the essence of the genre of music they’re making, instead of watering it down for mass appeal. But this album is too long for me. If I had just the best 10-14 songs, it’d probably get another star.
Absolutely need for an album to be 2 hours long
Ticking off the Southern Country / Folk box for this list with an extremely extensive double album. I don't care for this kind of thing much. It's not bad, just doesn't do anything for me, really. However, I did like the run of instrumental tracks which began Disc 2, which makes me think maybe it's the vocals which I don't like. Also as pointed out by another review, there is way too much "candid", behind-the-scenes recordings. As well as the intros and outros of each track, there are 3 tracks of nothing but studio dialogue. I can only imagine how annoying that would be if you wanted to listen to the music from this album for pleasure on its own. Not quite worth 3 stars, which is my bar for a re-listen, but not far off.
There's aspects of this I liked, but I didn't like that it was 2h+ of music. I think I appreciated the littler interstitial pieces of discussion between the songs more than the songs. 2.49/5
Couldn’t do it. 4 seconds in and I was done with the old timey country
Cool what they were doing with bringing in the old gaurd to play with the new gaurd. Not a fan of old country/bluegrass. Also, it was 2+ hours... 2 stars for the concept.
The circle broke!!! Lord this capital B bluegrass album was on my very last nerve. This is a genre I haven’t heard very much at all in the past 800 albums, but I didn’t need two straight hours of it to make up for its lack. I got the gist after the first three songs. I nearly gave this a 1 but the instrumental rendition of “Both Sides Now” was so lovely.
While I understand the importance of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the bluegrass/Appalachian style they brought to country music (which set standards for other artists and even persisted in their own music well into the following decades), I really found 2 hours of this to be too much. I might could have enjoyed this more if it just hadn't been soooo looong. 2.5, not rounding up.
a double album's a loooooong time to simmer in this kinda shucks howdy shit. Imagining that I'm in a mining town only gets me halfway through disc one
Eh, not my favorite
Típica música yankee del año del pedo, country de blancos cantando con banjos, un embole bárbaro, que encima dura más de dos horas.
It's nice to have some of these old-timers on record, but this shit drags and is a c-hair from being an exercise in cringe pandering.
The music was good but it was tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long
They sound good and they're great players but this is not really my vibe. This is old people country. Also, it's over 2 hours long. Thats obscene. Stop it. Not cool.
Some good tracks on here but a lot more filler than anything.
not my thing, got bored, turned off
This type of music is kinda meh to me but I didn't dislike this album.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but whatever it was this was worse. Really sounded like a joke album. The singer reminded me of the old man in the bar scene of Back to the Future Part 3/Disney Sheriff of Nottingham guy. It is mind-boggling to me that this band has 2 million more monthly listeners than Belle and Sebastian. When I turned some on Baked Tours Departing Daily the music got a little better, especially when he was walking around Main Street and Frontierland. It even had me bopping to "Black Mountain Rag." Didn't work as well in Galaxy's Edge. Had some strangely sharp turns to being super Jesus-y.
Look at that cover, this has more featured artists than any modern rap album. It also has the crappy skits. I don't know enough about this type of music to know if this is extraordinary or groundbreaking in any way. Therefore I can only judge it on my enjoyment. This really isn't for me. I got through disc 1, but part way through disc 2 I gave up. I kept picturing Homer and Grandpa Simpson being chased by hillbillies until they turned the music off.
I thought this sounded more authentic than a lot of the country we've had on this list, quite liked the collaboration between the different generations of artists and I think this was a good advert for the tradition and culture of country music. There was no need for this to be 2 hours long, all my goodwill was chipped away about 40 mins in. I'm now about 4 albums behind and I've learnt nothing I didn't know 2 days ago. Despite the improvements in authenticity it was very repetitive. Might be alright live, any three tracks would be nice enough every now and then, but all of it was too much. One of the best country albums we've had and it was mediocre at best.
I thought this was considerably better than most country we've had. It's got more of the blues sound. Guess it's bluegrass? Anyway, I did quite enjoy it for a while..... But over 2 hours is a long time! Far too long. I think the talking was quite endearing at times but annoying in others. Sounded authentic though. 2.5, better than I was expecting
Incredibly long. Songs are good but 2 hours of country is too much
2 hours of old country, no thank you
Music for the toothless inbred
Yesterday I got the Louvin Brothers. My review was, I generally don't like country music, but somehow I enjoyed it. This record here is more in line with my general opinion on country music. I can imagine people liking this record, but I hate it. And seems like it's 100 hours long.
My mum would have lived this. Loved this. Danced and had hours of joy listening to this. Not me. Irritating and frustrating. 2 stars being generous.
We've already established that country and bluegrass and all that is not for me. There's a honesty to this record. Which is a bit weird in a genre which is all about grit and honesty. But this is just a collection of people coming together to do what they love doing. Nothing more. I don't need 32 tracks of it. But I respect it.
Awful, I stopped after the second disk. More of the same. Not unlistenable, but not for me.
Best Song: Will The Circle Be Unbroken. I don't know if I actually liked the song or if it comes from a sort of Stockholm Syndrome after I waded through 2 hours of bluegrass to hit the supposedly famed title track. Worst Song: The End of the World. How fitting a title, because this song makes me want to die. Overall: I can stomach this kind of appalachian bluegrass in small doses, and sadly this is a lethal overdose. Unnecessarily lengthened by the inclusion of the folksy chit-chat so you can also feel like you were in the room, impatiently waiting for them to get along with it. The occasional finger-picking bit of gold interspersed here are not worth the two hours spent panning through the silt and mud.
Usually you do a double album because you’re on fire and are just pumping out the jams. This is a double album because they thought every word and jingle jangle they came up with was worth recording. Feels more like an unedited home movie than an actual studio production. They obviously have technical chops but lack any nuance or variety in their expression. Writing 25 songs in the exact same style and cadence has diminishing returns. It wasn’t worth it for me to try for a favorite song because it’s honestly just all the same. They could’ve snuck the same song in there 8 times with a different title and there would be no way to know. Fine background music but I like some thought and consideration out into a tracklist.
I liked it more than I thought I would. Actually catchy and somewhat pleasant to listen to. Consistent throughout, which is a good and a bad thing as this seemed to almost be like a stream of consciousness. I am glad I heard it, but too long and not varied enough to get a 3.
For the most part we weren't connecting, but I did enjoy some of the classic Country & Western rebellion in the music.
i will not be listening to the entirety of this one before i die
Disco duplo de country é muito exagero. Se depois de Tennessee Stud tivesse mais duas ou três faixas instrumentais seria magnífico. Bluegrass de altíssima qualidade.
Ok, it’s bluegrass. Like, literally the definition of bluegrass. If you like bluegrass, you’ll love this. If you don’t, then you won’t. I do not.
Grand Ole Opry Song 2.8 Keep on the Sunny Side 2.4 Nashville Blues 2.6 You Are My Flower 2.4 The Precious Jewel 2.3 Dark as a Dungeon 2.3 Tennessee Stud 2.3 Black Mountain Rag 2.4 Wreck on the Highway 2.2 The End of the World 2 I Saw the Light 2 Sunny Side of the Mountain 1.9 Nine-Pound Hammer 2 Losin' You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet) 2 Honky Tonkin 1.7 You Don't Know My Mind 2 My Walkin' Shoes 2 Lonesome Fiddle Blues 2 Cannonball Rag 2.1 Avalanche 2 Flint Hill Special 2.1 Togary Mountain 1.9 Earl's Breakdown 1.9 Orange Blossom Special 1.8 Wabash Cannonball 2 Lost Highway 2.1 Doc Watson & Merle Travis First Meeting (Dialogue) n/a Way Downtown 2 Down Yonder 2 Pins and Needles (In My Heart) 1.8 Honky to Blues 1.9 Sailin' on to Hawaii 2 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes 1.7 I am a Pilgrim 2 Wildwood Flower 1.8 Soldier's Joy 2 Will the Circle Be Unbroken 1.9 Both Sides Now 2 Score: 2.062162162
catchy americana/old school country. not my cup of tea, but was still nice.
It’s def old school and a throwback but nothing really stands out for me , it’s a fun enough listen to keep it from being a 1 but lacks the depth I neee to put it into “good” 3 category
Whenever someone says honky tonky I stop taking country seriously Why is this 2 hours long? The instrumental tracks are the better part, vocals usually glide into parody country 3/10
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This is how it feels to chase a wild turkey for two hours
I'm not a big fan of bluegrass, but anyone would go crazy after 2 hours of it.
C & BG, no B. Well done but nothing I need to listen to again.
Lógicamente no incluye Mr. Bojangles ni An American Dream. Se trata de una ejemplar fusión de country, bluegrass, pop y rock & roll que como su título indica trata de cerrar la brecha entre la vieja guardia country de Nasville y las nuevas bandas de folk-country (The Byrds habían sentado cátedra con Sweetheart ot the rodeo y Gran Parsons -con los Flying Burrito Brothers o en solitario- era un faro que iluminaría el camino a seguir). Keep on the Sunny Side" es una delicia. Otros discos de 1972 Debuts de Steely Dan, Roxy Music, Paul Simon, Big Star, Neu¡, ¿Fela Kuti? y Lou Reed (además de su espléndido Transformer ) Discos expecionales como los de David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Todd Rundgren-Something/Anything?, Stevie Wonder – Talking Book y Music of my mind, Elton John-Honky Château, Nick Drake – Pink Moon, Yes – Close to the Edge, Miles Davis – On the Corner, Neil Young – Harvest, The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St, Curtis Mayfield – Super Fly, Raspberries- Fresh, Genesis – Foxtrot, Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview, Deep Purple- Machine Head y Made in Japan, Joni MIttchell- For the roses, Tangerine Dream - Zeit, T Rex- The slider, Kevin Ayers- Whatevershebringswesing, la banda sonora The harder they come... una cosecha excelente.
No.
What in the county bears hell is this?? 2.4.
Not for me.
Jesus this was far too long. I didn't mind the music itself, but I've got to mark this down on album length. Favourite song was Lonesome Fiddle Blues.
90 minutes overlong!
i did not like it :c
Not listening. I'm sure it has it's crowd
Brit here so there is nothing nostalgic about this. It’s just country music, and too much of it.
I tried, but a country double album was more than I could take...only made it about halfway through the first album. Just not my thing.
OK, but too long. Could've skipped the talking parts...
I'm all for some more bluegrass but damn this was long.
It is what it is.
To be fair, it's probably a great album. I just don't like the music.
Good at what it is, and enjoyed some of it but just too far into the country genre for my taste
Too long and a little too twangy for me.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an album that showcases the band’s exceptional skill and deep respect for traditional American music. The choice of songs is spot on, blending classic country, folk, and bluegrass tunes with impressive musicianship. The collaborations with legendary artists add authenticity and depth to the project. However, the album's biggest flaw is its length. At over two hours, it stretches on far too long, leaving you feeling fatigued long before the final track. While the quality of the music is undeniable, the sheer volume of content makes it feel more like a marathon than an enjoyable listening experience. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0 STAND OUT TRACK - None
In order to maintain the integrity of this project, I have listened to over 2 hours (42 songs!) of bluegrass, interspersed with lots of studio chatter. I love ‘oh brother where art thou’ but this was a slog, and I’m left thinking of all the MAGA voting, tobacco chewing, tourist raping musicians that created this. A tiring 2.5/5
Normally 3/5 but DNF so it lost a star
I enjoyed this twice as much as I normally like Country Music so will give it twice the number of stars I usually give Country Music. Liked the instrumental songs most! Even the story telling between tracks was bearable.