Article Contributed by IVPR
Published on October 27, 2025
“For sixty years, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has been a contender in all the genres they have touched, and I believe this recording is the culmination of many years of brothership and trust in the band,” says GRAMMY-winning Dobro master and the producer of the Dirt Band’s new EP, Night After Night, Jerry Douglas.
The band’s first release of all-new music since 2009’s Speed of Life and a follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2022 release, Dirt Does Dylan, Night After Night finds longtime band members Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, and Bob Carpenter joined by Jaime Hanna and Ross Holmes, along with Jim Photoglo, melding together six decades of influences, millions of road miles, and all kinds of familial collaboration.
Today’s feature track, “Nashville Skyline” (feat. Matraca Berg) — co-written by Jeff, his son Jaime, and Jeff’s wife, celebrated singer-songwriter Matraca Berg — finds Jeff and Jaime strumming alongside each other on record. “‘Nashville Skyline’ is a lament about change,” says Jeff. “A yearning love letter to what was.” A whiskey-soaked take on Nashville days-gone-by, the trio of writers deliver their message not from a soapbox, but more so with heartrending hindsight:
“Them good ol’ boys
Sure made some noise
Whiskey prophets singin’ poetry with a southern accent
Downtown bars
A country band without a steel guitar
We’ve come so far can’t remember where we’ve been”
Out now on all streaming services, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Night After Night EP was recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and The Tractor Shed Studio in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, and was mixed by Sean Sullivan alongside Hanna and Douglas. Fans can stream or purchase the Night After Night EP right here. A very limited number of vinyl copies of Night After Night — with music on one side and an etched graphic on the other — as well as CDs will be released on Dec. 5, 2025, and are available to pre-order at the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band online store.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has also just announced the next leg of tour dates in commemoration of the band’s 60th Anniversary — ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour – 60 Years of Dirt. The new tour dates kick off with the Outlaw Country Cruise in March 2026 and will find the group up and down the eastern seaboard with a very special show at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 13th — the 60th Anniversary, to the day, of the band’s formation. Pre-sale begins on Wednesday, October 29th, and general on-sale will take place on Friday, October 31st. A full list of tour dates can be found below or at nittygritty.com/tour.
Night After Night Tracklist:
Night After Night
Nashville Skyline (feat. Matraca Berg)
If You Hang Around Long Enough
Peace and Quiet
For All The Good It Did
October 24, 2025 — Effingham, IL — Effingham Performance Center
October 25, 2025 — Muskegon, MI — Frauenthal Center
October 26, 2025 — Wabash, IN — Honeywell Center — Ford Theater
October 28, 2025 — Nashville, TN — Grand Ole Opry (Grand Ole Opry House)
March 20–25, 2026 — Miami, FL — Outlaw Country Cruise
April 9, 2026 — Tarrytown, NY — Tarrytown Music Hall
April 10, 2026 — Easton, PA — State Theatre Center for the Arts
April 11, 2026 — Beverly, MA — The Cabot
April 12, 2026 — Lancaster, PA — American Music Theatre
April 14, 2026 — Rutland, VA — The Paramount Theatre
April 16, 2026 — Plymouth, MA — Plymouth Memorial Hall
April 17, 2026 — Nashua, NH — Nashua Center For The Arts
April 18, 2026 — Niagara Falls, ON — Fallsview Casino Resort — The Avalon Theatre
April 19, 2026 — Albany, NY — The Egg Center For The Performing Arts — Kitty Carlisle Hart Theatre
May 7, 2026 — Washington, DC — Lincoln Theatre
May 8, 2026 — Bristol, VA — Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
May 9, 2026 — Myrtle Beach, SC — The Carolina Opry Theater — Galvin Gilmore Theater
May 10, 2026 — Wilmington, NC — Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College — Allan and Laura Wilson Humanities and Fine Arts Center
May 13, 2026 — Nashville, TN — Grand Ole Opry House (NGDB’s 60th Anniversary Celebration)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — formed in 1966 as a Long Beach, California jug band that scored its first charting single in 1967 and embarked on a very successful self-propelled ride through folk, country, rock ’n’ roll, pop, bluegrass, and Americana — is currently on the second year of its All The Good Times: The Farewell Tour.
For nearly six decades, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has entertained audiences with its top-shelf musicianship, groundbreaking trilogy of Will The Circle Be Unbroken albums, and timeless hits such as “Mr. Bojangles,” “Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper’s Dream),” “Modern Day Romance,” “Workin’ Man (Nowhere To Go),” and “Fishin’ in the Dark.”
Now with its farewell tour, the multiple GRAMMY, CMA, and IBMA Award-winning band — which has carried a torch for American country and roots music for nearly 60 years — is in the process of saying so long to the highways and byways they’ve crossed an unimaginable number of times throughout their career while simultaneously celebrating their artistry and staying power with the release of new music.
