The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
After 20 years the Dirt Band can still pack a lot of good feeling into an album, as this lively production demonstrates. The LP is dedicated to the late composer-singer Steve Goodman, and Queen of the Road, a she-done-him-wrong song he wrote with band members Jeff Hanna and Jimmy Ibbotson, is one of its highlights. The breezy Don Schlitz/Lisa Silver/Russell Smith tune As Long As You're Loving Me is especially appealing. As usual, the picking, strumming and fiddling of John McEuen is notable. As McEuen proved on his recent self-titled Warner Bros, solo album, his singing skills are nothing to write down-home about, but as a country instrumentalist he is as musical as they come. (Warner Bros.)
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