Americana pioneers, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, will be playing at the Tarrytown Music Hall on April 9th.
In a recent LA Times piece titled, “Why the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s musical bridge between generations still matters today,” the 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. On April 9th, the Dirt Band will kick off 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?”
For more information and tickets, visit https://tickets.tarrytownmusichall.org/.
