Pure Dirt (1968)

"The group's first compilation album, made up of six songs from the first album (1967) and eight from "Ricochet" (1968). "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band" is a strong debut album by one of the most offbeat folk/country-rock bands of the 1960s. Apart from the one unabashed classic, "Buy for Me The Rain," which was a modest hit and the group's biggest claim to musical fame for the next three years, the album also contained the delightful banjo-dominated John McEuen/Bill McEuen instrumental "Dismal Swamp" (which was anything but dismal), the Jackson Browne ballad "Holding," the rousing "You're Gonna Get It in the End," and Bruce Kunkel's haunting, ethereal "Song to Jutta" (as fine a song as anything the Byrds were doing at the time, and better played)." (Bruce Eder, Allmusic; 4 uit 5 sterren)

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