After Thursday evening's first of two performances at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, marking an end to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's six decades of tours involving multi-city runs and long bus rides, ...

For more than 50 years, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has been a flagbearer for Americana music, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of contemporary country, rock and folk. And now the band is ...

It’s hard to know what it means when a band announces its “farewell tour.” Some entertainers and bands have announced or staged more than one “last tour,” including Kiss, The Who, Elton John and Cher.

Bob Carpenter needed no reminding that the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s scheduled performance in Mankato last June had been canceled. “No, absolutely. Because we sat in the hotel — it was outdoors and ...