The Making of 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' - Volume Two (1989)

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.
The roster of session musicians for the album included many notable performers, including fiddler Mark O'Connor, resonator guitarist Jerry Douglas, banjoist Béla Fleck, guitarist Chet Atkins and bassist Roy Huskey, Jr., son of bassist Junior Huskey, who had played on the first Circle.[1]
Like the first Circle, the album features snippets of studio chatter. In the lead-in to John Denver's song, "And So It Goes", someone asks, "Is this practice?" Denver replies: "They're all practice."
In an intro to the song "Riding Alone", Emmylou Harris summed up her thoughts about relaxed atmosphere of the recording sessions, saying: "Years ago I had the experience of sitting around in a living room with a bunch of people and singing and playing, and it was like a spiritual experience, it was wonderful. And I decided then that was what I was going to do with my life was play music, do music. In the making of records, I think over the years we've all gotten a little too technical, a little too hung up on getting things perfect. We've lost the living room. The living room has gone out of the music, but today I feel like we got it back."

Nitty Gritty Dirt BandEdit

Bob Carpenter – Piano, accordion, harmony vocals

Jimmie Fadden – Drums, harmonica

Jeff Hanna – Guitar, washboard, harmony vocals

Jimmy Ibbotson – Mandolin, harmony vocals

Session musiciansEdit

Jerry Douglas – Resonator guitar

Roy Huskey, Jr. – Upright bass

Mark O'Connor – Fiddle, mandolin

Randy Scruggs – Producer, guitar

Vassar Clements – Fiddle on "Sittin' on Top of the World"

Béla Fleck – Banjo on "Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan", "Little Mountain Church House" and "Sittin' on Top of the World"

Bernie Leadon – Banjo on "The Valley Road" and "Blues Berry Hill"

John McEuen – Banjo on "Lost River"

Earl Scruggs – Banjo on "Life's Railway to Heaven"

Buck White – Piano on "Little Mountain Church House"

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