My guest this week is John McEuen, founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

I recently put together two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday (links below in case you missed those). I interviewed over a dozen guests and John was kind enough to take part and share some memories of recording Will the Circle Be Unbroken with Doc. Those episodes ended up being so long I didn't have room for all of the conversation I had with John, but there was so much great stuff in there I decided to release the whole thing. Here it is!

There's plenty more about Will the Circle... in here, but we also chat about John's favourite music he's made since then, playing with Earl Scruggs at IBMA, producing Steve Martin's Grammy winning album The Crow and plenty more.

It was a great conversation to get to be a part of and I really hope you enjoy it.

Links to stuff we talked about

For tour dates, info and details of John's book about the ...Circle sessions, visit John McEuen's website

For updates and news check out John's Facebook and Instagram pages

Do go and listen to John's fantastic album String Wizards, which includes the track he talks about, Carolina Traveler

Doc Watson 100th birthday episodes:

Part 1 - this is the episode John's in
Part 2

Happy picking,
Matt

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