Maybe you saw him in Ken Burns’ “Country Music” series. Maybe you heard him in the early years of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which he cofounded. Maybe you heard him on Steve Martin’s novelty hit “King Tut” and the Grammy-winning “The Crow: New Songs for 5-String Banjo.” (McEuen gave banjo lessons to Martin, his high school classmate.) Although no longer a member of the Dirt Band, McEuen will be celebrating that group’s landmark 1972 album “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” that featured such early country heroes as Mother Maybelle Carter, Roy Acuff and Merle Travis. (STAR TRIBUNE)
John McEuen & The Circle Band
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