Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two | ||||
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Studio album by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | ||||
Released | May 1, 1989 | |||
Recorded | December, 1988 and January, 1989 Scruggs Studio Nashville, Tennessee |
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Genre |
Country Neotraditional country Folk Pop |
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Length | 62:19 | |||
Label | Universal | |||
Producer |
Randy Scruggs Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | {unrated} |
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two (also Circle II) is a 1989 album by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The album follows the same concept as the band's 1972 album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, which featured guest performances from many notable country music stars.
Circle II features largely acoustic, bluegrass music instrumentation with a line-up of contemporary country music artists that includes Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Michael Martin Murphey and Ricky Skaggs. Returnees from the first Circle are bluegrass musician Jimmy Martin, banjoist Earl Scruggs, fiddler Vassar Clements and singer Roy Acuff.
Other artists represent the rock, folk and pop genres, including Levon Helm from The Band, John Denver, John Prine, John Hiatt and Bruce Hornsby.
Among the tracks is the Bob Dylan composition, "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", sung as a duet by former members of The Byrds, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, their first reunion in many years.