Music City Walk of Fame Announces Inductees

Steven Curtis Chapman, Merle Kilgore, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steve Wariner, Kirk Whalum and Hank Williams to be Cemented in Nashville’s Music Mile

Nashville, Tenn. – Music City, Inc. today announced the fourth class of inductees to the Music City Walk of Fame presented by founding sponsor Gibson Guitar:  Steven Curtis Chapman, Merle Kilgore, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steve Wariner, Kirk Whalum and Hank Williams. The honorees will be recognized officially with the unveiling of commemorative sidewalk markers on Sunday, April 20, beginning at 3 p.m. in the Hall of Fame Park in downtown Nashville. The induction ceremony, which is sponsored by Great American Country (GAC), is free and open to the public.

NGDB Honored by IEBA

On October 16th in Nashville, Tennessee, the NGDB was recognized by the International Entertainment Buyers Association for it's 40 years of recording and touring contributions to the music industry. After a short video presentation of the band's history, NGDB entertained with a short set and were joined onstage by Hall of Fame songwriter Rodney Crowell, to sing "Long Hard Road", their first number one country hit penned by Crowell.

"Will The Circle Be Unbroken" has been honored by the Library Of Congress. It was included in the 2006 National Recording Registry. 

"Bless the Broken Road" (co-written by Dirt Band member Jeff Hanna) has won the Grammy for BEST COUNTRY SONG.  It was also nominated for SONG OF THE YEAR (all genre).

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band won their most recent Grammy for Country Instrumental Performance:  “Earl’s Breakdown” - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, featuring Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Jerry Douglas and the late Vassar Clements.

In stores now! We're happy to announce that Capitol/Nashville has re-released the Dirt Band's Acoustic. The album, which was recorded in 1994, features some of the band's best self-penned material and includes the original version of "Bless The Broken Road".  Click HERE for more information.

NGDB's latest CD Welcome To Woody Creek is in stores now! "...this album deserves to be put up on the shelf with Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy and the group's Will the Circle Be Unbroken series as among the finest works the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has ever produced..." - John Rogers, The Associated Press