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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen iterations over the years, including five years when the band performed and recorded as The Dirt Band. The band's best-known song was a 1970 cover of Jerry Jeff Walker's folk song "Mr. Bojangles".
The current members are:
- Jeff Hanna on guitar, washboard, and vocals;
- Jimmie Fadden on drums, harmonica, and vocals;
- Jimmy Ibbotson on guitar, mandolin, bass, and vocals;
- Bob Carpenter on keyboard, accordion, and vocals' and
- John McEuen on banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin.
