{"id":15876,"date":"2021-02-10T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=15876"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:08:07","slug":"nitty-gritty-dirt-band-gather-all-star-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=15876","title":{"rendered":"Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Gather All-Star Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Gather All-Star Cast For A Timely Cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cThe Times They Are A-Changin\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n
With verses from Jason Isbell, Rosanne Cash, The War And Treaty, and Steve Earle; Proceeds to benefit Feeding America<\/div>\n
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“Come, senators, congressmen<\/div>\n
Please heed the call<\/div>\n
Don’t stand in the doorway<\/div>\n
Don’t block up the hall”<\/div>\n
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February 5, 2021 – Nashville, TN – In the fifty-seven years since Bob Dylan released his career-altering folksong, “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” the times he sang of did seem to change. But now, in another period of national unrest, a President refusing to concede defeat or peacefully transfer power, and a renewed fire for justice in the long-fought battle for civil rights, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band<\/a>‘s new version of Dylan’s classic sounds more poignant and insistent than ever before. \u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of Bob Dylan\u2019s since I was a teenager, living in California,\u201d says NGDB founding member and lead singer Jeff Hanna. \u201cI was fortunate enough to see him sing \u201cThe Times They Are A-Changing\u201d in concert the year the song was released: 1964.\u201d Today, JamBase<\/a> shared NGDB\u2019s star-studded version of Dylan\u2019s classic. Beginning today, \u201cThe Times They Are A-Changin\u2019\u201d is available for \u201cname your price\u201d purchase on the band\u2019s Bandcamp page<\/a> with all proceeds going to Feeding America<\/a>. On February 8th, the song will become available on digital service providers with those proceeds also going towards Feeding America\u2019s cause. More information can be found at nittygritty.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Amidst the compounding, pleading verses of Scottish ballad by way of Greenwich Village, the Dirt Band’s distinguished musical guests\u2014Jason Isbell, Rosanne Cash, The War And Treaty, and Steve Earle, all of whom are no strangers to writing and singing their beliefs on record, each step to the microphone to contribute a verse with Isbell also adding slide guitar\u2014carry the same tone and energy in their voices as the song’s writer did almost six decades ago; an unfortunate but earnest reaction to the all too evident parallels between now and then. \u201cIt moved me deeply then and that hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d Hanna notes. \u201cThe lyrics are as relevant today as they were when Dylan wrote it. Maybe even more so.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Produced by Ray Kennedy, \u201cThe Time\u2019s They Are A-Changin;\u201d was collectively recorded up and down the east coast. John Leventhal recorded his wife, Rosanne Cash\u2019s vocals in their New York City home studio and Steve Earle contributed his verse via the world famous Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village. In Nashville, NGDB and guests joined Kennedy in his Room & Board Studio. Rounding out the already outstanding cast of characters on this track are all of the current members of NGDB\u2014Jeff Hanna (lead vocals and acoustic guitar), Jimmie Fadden (drums), Bob Carpenter (accordion), Jim Photoglo (electric bass), Jaime Hanna (electric guitar), and Ross Holmes (fiddle and mandolin)\u2014as well as Fred Eltringham (Sheryl Crow, The Wallflowers) on additional drums and Nashville songwriting legend\u2014and Jeff Hanna\u2019s better half\u2014Matraca Berg on harmonica and harmony vocals. \u201cWe\u2019ve got great admiration for all of these folks, not only as artists, but more importantly, as people,\u201d says Hanna.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Gather All-Star Cast For A Timely Cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cThe Times They Are A-Changin\u2019\u201d With verses from Jason Isbell, Rosanne Cash, The War And Treaty, and Steve Earle; Proceeds to benefit Feeding America “Come, senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t