The first chart record for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Jackson Browne was briefly in the group but left before their first album. Steve Martin wasn't a member but played banjo on stage with them in the early days prior to joining the Smothers Brothers TV show as a writer, and long before becoming a wild and crazy guy. The Dirt Band later played on Steve's "King Tut" as part of the Toot Uncommons. It would be several years until "Mr. Bojangles" and their influential Nashville recordings with country music legends Roy Acuff, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Merle Travis and Mother Maybelle Carter.
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