The band releases The Dirt Band and An American Dream LPs, and the single “American Dream” with Linda Ronstadt goes to #13 on the Pop chats. The band also appears on Saturday Night Live and provides arrangement and backing for Steve Martin’s million...
The Dirt Band becomes the first American group selected by the Soviet government to tour the USSR, spending a month in Russia playing to live audiences and a massive TV audience of 145,000,000. Tour incessantly, and release Dirt, Silver and Gold, a 3-record LP. Jeff...
The band records Stars and Stripes Forever and Dream LPs, and play at an amazing variety of shows, including bluegrass festival one day before opening for Aerosmith. Play to a crowd of 190,000 at a Sedalia MO “Rock Festival” in 103 degree heat, performing...
The band relocates to Colorado, and records Uncle Charlie and All the Good Times, “Mr. Bojangles” makes the Top 10 Pop charts. In August 1971 the band ventured to the uncharted wilds of Nashville to record Will the Circle Be Unbroken, the platinum selling...
The band records Rare Junk and Alive, stay in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest, Oregon, for 4 months filming “Paint Your Wagon” with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin. Play Carnegie Hall as Bill Cosby’s opening act, and jam with Dizzy Gillespie. Jeff...
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