Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Dirt Silver & Gold
Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1977
THE SEPTEMBER 13th 1975 edition of Billboard Magazine, the American music industry's Bible, carried an interesting and revealing supplement on Colorado "a growing music environment" which contained, amidst a spread of photographs of that most picturesque state, a good deal of fascinating information on the Aspen Recording Society, and more especially The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
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