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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Doug Kershaw, Larkin Poe, Jerry Jeff Walker, Player and Dillard & Clark. Those roots explain a lot about how Nitty Gritty Dirt Band arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ricky Skaggs, John Hartford, Charlie Daniels Band, John Anderson and The Dillards, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Rascal Flatts, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, Pure Prairie League, Jackson Browne and Kenny Loggins, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, reaching back through Doug Kershaw and forward to Rascal Flatts. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Nitty Gritty Dirt BandDoug KershawLarkin PoeJerry Jeff WalkerPlayerDillard & ClarkJimmy MartinRodney CrowellJackson BrowneRascal FlattsBruce Hornsby & the …Pure Prairie LeagueJackson BrowneKenny LogginsBruce HornsbyChris HillmanRicky SkaggsJohn HartfordCharlie Daniels BandJohn AndersonThe DillardsAlan JacksonShenandoahToby Keith

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band connections

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band grew out of Doug Kershaw, Larkin Poe, Jerry Jeff Walker and Player, shares an orbit with Ricky Skaggs, John Hartford, Charlie Daniels Band and John Anderson, went on to shape Rascal Flatts, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, Pure Prairie League and Jackson Browne. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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