“I don’t think we realized the historical impact, or even cultural impact,” he says. It wasn’t until the years passed that Hanna and the band realized the significance of what they had created musically and socially. They were really good and they kind of swept us all in that.” We got that much music on tape that quickly because these are professionals. “They were all so gracious and so great and so easy. “We were so thrilled and really starstruck to be in the studio with these people that we idolized from the time we were little folk puppies,” Hanna says. “The average age in our band when we cut that record was 24,” Hanna says, with a tone of nostalgic delight. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the aforementioned iconic Will the Circle Be Unbroken album, which paired the band with bluegrass and country pioneers like Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Doc Watson and “Mother” Maybelle Carter. We cut that song live around one microphone in the studio. Then you get ‘Country Pie,’ which is a 180 and really harkens back to our jug band days,” Hanna says. “One moment you’ve got this heartfelt ‘I Shall Be Released,’ which is such a deep, soulful sort of message. They also wanted to show Dylan’s range, while still keeping the material relatively light. I wanted to record a version of ‘Don’t Think Twice,’ just because I’ve been singing it since I was a kid, and I thought if it sucked, I won’t put it on the record. There are some tunes and we were drawn to those. “Also, Dylan doesn’t write a lot of big choruses. “We’re a band, and so much of Dylan’s material is very personal more for a solo artist,” he says.
Everyone one brought in songs to consider, but some tunes naturally dropped out as they tried them out. Hanna, who first saw Dylan in concert when he was in high school in 1964, has been a lifelong fan - and, like his bandmates, relished diving into the material. “We were so focused on creating something with this band.” The album comes out on the label’s own NGDB Records, distributed by MRI.
“We never really floated the idea of it being a duets record from top to bottom,” he says. Though NGDB is well known for featuring other artists on its recordings - including on its landmark triple vinyl album Will the Circle Be Unbroken and the two subsequent Circle volumes - Hanna says there was not the intent to make the entire Dylan album a collaborative effort. It was really, fun but those choruses when those girls start singing is pretty stunning.” And then in the outro, we ended up trading back and forth electric guitar and lap steel really fast. Rebecca sings the second verse, joined by Megan, and Megan plays some lap steel. Then as the Dylan album progressed, “I sent them the track and they came over in an afternoon and just sang the heck out of it. NGDB met Larkin Poe’s Rebecca and Megan Lovell more than a dozen years ago, and more recently, both acts had played at Dierks Bentley’s Seven Peaks Festival, where they first broached recording together.
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