Jimmie Fadden reflected on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s many influences and how they helped shape the band’s own brand of Americana music in an interview with Timesdaily.com: “We have a lot of different interests in the band. It’s kind of what propelled us from rather obscure mountain music to Delta blues artists to more contemporary players. Just a variety of people and musical types. Just like any other young person that likes music, you just start soaking it up. We were 18 and 19 when we started doing this.
Roots music has always been outsider music. I think for a lot of people, they feel socially outside the norm. They don’t feel comfortable in what is termed currently pop. Therefore they look for something that’s a little more authentic. And I think that’s why we have a support for this kind of music like we did then, albeit much larger now than it was then.”
You’ll find more of Fadden’s comments on Timesdaily.com, including his namechecking the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
