Bojangles.” But here, again, country-folk and acoustic rock were their touchstones the same album introduced “House At Pooh Corner,” by the not-yet-famous Kenny Loggins. They began playing it straighter on their 1970 album, Uncle Charlie And His Dog Teddy, which included their greatest hit, a cover of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Formed in 1967 (with Jackson Browne as a short-lived original member), they began as a psychedelicstring band their first three albums are weird and wonderful, and only one track, “Buy For Me The Rain,” became a minor hit. In one sense, the Dirt Band was unlikely candidates for the job. Bill Monroe was apparently the only legend to turn their invitation down. Less a band album than the ultimate picking session, Will The Circle Be Unbroken did the impossible by bringing together the greatest of bluegrass players – Doc Watson, Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Merle Travis – with a genuine bunch of hippie freaks. Listen to Will The Circle Be Unbroken now. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band pulled that coup on their classic album, 1972’s Will The Circle Be Unbroken. The young folks may have had some Doc Watson and Roy Acuff records in their collections, but few were covering those songs, and nobody was daring to invite those legends into the studio. Yet bluegrass wasn’t really part of the equation – that was a previous generation’s sound. The Byrds had done Sweetheart Of The Rodeo Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash had recorded together Linda Ronstadt’s solo career was underway Grateful Dead had done Merle Haggard and Marty Robbins songs and Willie Nelson was off inventing outlaw country. The worlds of country and rock music were coming together by the early 70s.
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