It’s the field of play, if you can imagine any team of people moving together in one direction. This spontaneity is an interesting experience to find yourself in. It’s just live music, so there’s a lot of freedom in that in the sense that we communicate to one another as we’re playing in various ways as things happen. There’s nothing digital going on onstage. We don’t use any prerecorded contrivances. There’s always something that might be different from the night before or there’s something that’s happening that you remember it being like a few years ago. It’s always a little bit of a different conversation musically. From night to night, (people say) doesn’t that get old? For me, no it doesn’t. To be able to play these songs with enthusiasm and some freshness is an easy task for us. What is historically important in our band is currently important onstage, if that makes any sense.
I think what’s behind us is in front of us every night. We’ve just kind of done what was in front of us, and we continue to do that. May was the official milestone month.ĭo you find that being the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band these days is a balancing act between keeping up with the times and honoring the tradition of the past? It’s a stop on the band’s 50th-anniversary tour, which kicked off last year. The band, which also includes longtime members John McEuen and Bob Carpenter, will be hard-pressed to fit them all in during a sold-out show Friday night at the Meyer Theatre. Bojangles,” “Dance Little Jean,” “Cadillac Ranch,” “Long Hard Road,” “An American Dream,” and, of course, 1972’s “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” the seminal album that defined the group’s blend of country, rock and bluegrass. It’s but one iconic song in a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band catalog that’s filled with them. All those family outings and maybe sneaking away and getting away from the family.” I think about everybody going to the lake in the summer. “I guess a lot of people have that kind of destination in mind in that state. “It’s the fishing thing and the outdoor thing together,” Fadden said. Fadden, who along with singer and guitarist Jeff Hanna, are the original members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for 50 years and counting, witnesses the love every time the band breaks out the song in the state. The band’s 1987 hit plays especially big in Wisconsin, where all that talk about the lazy yellow moon, counting the stars and waiting all winter for the time to be right never fails to spark a feel-good sing-along at whatever summer festival, bar gig or church picnic it gets played at. “I think Wisconsin really, they’re on it. “Oh yeah, it is,” said drummer Jimmie Fadden. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Fishin’ in the Dark” doesn’t just seem like it could be Wisconsin’s unofficial anthem.
0 kommentar(er)
