Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Grand Ole Opry Song

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Jimmy Martin
  3:10
• 2
  Keep on the Sunny Side

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Mother Maybelle Carter
  4:27
• 3
  Nashville Blues
  3:15
  5.0 ★
• 4
  You Are My Flower
  3:39
• 5
  The Precious Jewel

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Roy Acuff
  4:09
• 6
  Dark as a Dungeon

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Merle Travis
  2:47
• 7
  Tennessee Stud

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Doc Watson
  4:50
• 8
  Black Mountain Rag
  2:40
• 9
  Wreck on the Highway

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Roy Acuff
  3:25
• 10
  The End of the World
  3:54
• 11
  I Saw the Light

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Roy Acuff
  4:21
• 12
  Sunny Side of the Mountain

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Jimmy Martin
  2:50
• 13
  Nine Pound Hammer

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Merle Travis
  2:53
• 14
  Losin’ You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet)

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Jimmy Martin
  2:49
• 15
  Honky Tonkin’

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Jimmie Fadden
  2:32
• 16
  You Don’t Know My Mind

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Jimmy Martin
  2:47
• 17
  My Walkin’ Shoes

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Jimmy Martin
  2:53
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Lonesome Fiddle Blues
  2:43
• 2
  Cannonball Rag
  1:16
• 3
  Avalanche
  2:52
• 4
  Flint Hill Special
  2:13
• 5
  Togary Mountain
  2:28
• 6
  Earl’s Breakdown
  2:37
• 7
  Orange Blossom Special
  2:12
• 8
  Wabash Cannonball
  2:03
• 9
  Lost Highway
  3:48
• 10
  Doc Watson and Merle Travis: First Meeting (dialogue)

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Doc Watson & Merle Travis
  1:52
• 11
  Way Downtown

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Doc Watson
  3:35
• 12
  Down Yonder
  3:45
• 13
  Pins and Needles (In My Heart)

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Roy Acuff
  2:54
• 14
  Honky Tonk Blues
  2:23
• 15
  Sailin’ on to Hawaii
  2:09
• 16
  I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
  4:26
• 17
  I Am a Pilgrim
  3:54
• 18
  Wildwood Flower

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Mother Maybelle Carter
  3:33
• 19
  Soldier’s Joy
  3:33
• 20
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Mother Maybelle Carter
  4:48
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Both Sides Now
  2:25
• 22
  Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  2:39
• 23
  Warming Up for “The Opry”
  2:43
• 24
  Sunny Side Talk
  4:06
• 25
  Remember Me (When the Candle Lights Are Gleaming)
  1:32

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Daytrotter Session 2011

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2 1989

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More Great Dirt: The Best of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Vol. II 1989

Workin’ Band

Workin’ Band 1988

Hold On

Hold On 1987

Twenty Years of Dirt: The Best of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Twenty Years of Dirt: The Best of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1986

Release credits

• Bashful Brother Oswald
  resonator guitar [1.2, 1.5, 1.9-11, 2.8, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.25]
• Chet Flippo
  background vocals [20]
• Doc Watson
  background vocals [1.2, 2.20], guitar [1.2, 1.7-8, 1.10-11, 2.8, 2.11-12, 2.15, 2.20, 2.25], lead vocals [1.7, 2.11], spoken vocals [10, 24]
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [1.2-3, 1.11, 2.4, 2.6, 2.16, 2.19-20], guitar [2.8, 2.13, 2.15, 2.18, 1.4-5, 1.9-10]
• Ellis Padgett
  double bass [2.1, 2.7, 1.14]
• Gary Scruggs
  background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.12, 1.16-17, 2.16, 2.20]
• Gloria Belle
  background vocals [20]
• Jeff Hanna
  background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-7, 1.11-13, 1.16-17, 2.11, 2.16, 2.20], drums (drum set) [9], guitar [15], lead vocals [14], washboard [1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.12, 2.22]
• Jimmie Fadden
  autoharp [4], harmonica [1.3, 1.5-9, 1.11-17, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.8, 2.11-13, 2.17, 2.20, 2.22], lead vocals [4, 15]
• Jimmy Ibbotson
  background vocals [2.16, 2.20, 1.1-2, 1.6, 1.11, 1.13], drums (drum set) [2.14, 1.15-16], guitar [1.7-8, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.11-12, 2.18, 2.22], harmonica [15], lead vocals [9], snare drum [1.4, 1.12-14, 1.17, 2.4, 2.6, 2.13, 2.17]
• Jimmy Martin
  background vocals [11], guitar [1.1, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16-17, 2.7, 2.20], lead vocals [1.1, 1.12, 1.14, 1.16-17, 2.20]
• Jimmy Martin, Jr.
  background vocals [20]
• John McEuen
  banjo [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.7-8, 1.12-14, 1.16-17, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11-13, 2.18-19, 2.22], mandolin [1.2, 1.6, 1.11, 2.16, 2.20]
• Junior Huskey
  double bass [2.2-6, 2.8-9, 2.11-20, 2.22, 2.25, 1.1-13, 1.15-17]
• Larry Murray
  background vocals [20]
• Les Thompson
  background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.11-13, 1.16-17, 2.16, 2.20], mandolin [2.1, 2.3-7, 2.9, 2.11-13, 2.18, 2.22, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8-9, 1.12, 1.14-17]
• Louise Scruggs
  background vocals [20]
• Merle Travis
  background vocals [2], guitar [1.6, 1.13, 2.2, 2.16-17, 2.20], lead vocals [1.6, 1.13, 2.17], spoken vocals [10]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [18, 20], guitar [1.2, 2.16], lead vocals [1.2, 2.16, 2.18, 2.20], spoken vocals [24]
• Norman Blake
  resonator guitar [2.4-5, 2.9, 2.14, 1.3-4, 1.15]
• Randy Scruggs
  autoharp [2, 5, 11], background vocals [20], guitar [2.1, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.21, 1.3-4]
• Ray Martin
  background vocals [2.20, 1.1, 1.12, 1.16-17]
• Roy Acuff
  lead vocals [2.13, 2.20, 1.5, 1.9, 1.11]
• Steve Scruggs
  background vocals [20]
• Vassar Clements
  fiddle [2.1, 2.3-7, 2.9, 2.11-14, 2.16, 2.18, 2.20, 2.22, 1.1-5, 1.7-9, 1.11-17], guitar [15]
• William E. McEuen
  guitar [14], producer
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Issues

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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  6x 12" Vinyl
  1972
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  2x CD
  1 November 1994
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  2x CD
  1 June 1996
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  2x CD (30th Anniversary Edition)
  26 March 2002
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  2x CD (30th Anniversary Edition)
  2002
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  Will the Circle Be Unbroken

  Digital Media (40th anniversary edition)
  21 January 2014
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  2x Digital Media