Dirt, Silver and Gold is a 1976 compilation album by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band that contains some of the band's greatest material to that point. It also includes 12 songs not previously available. It was originally released as a three LP album, and was released in 2003 as a two compact disc set by BGO Records. The original release reached 77 on the US Charts and 28 on the US Country Charts. The album's outer cover opens up to a picture of an elaborately painted safe door from the Ute City Banque in Aspen, Colorado. The original album had a four foot by two foot poster of the safe. The inside cover has pictures of the band in its three incarnations to that point, 1966–67, 1968–69 and 1970–76. The inner sleeves also had artwork. One side has tools for mining gold and a 45 record with a mountain on the label. The other side had a poster for the Society Of California Pioneers. The liner notes were written over these images on two of the sleeves.

Track listing

Disc one

LP side 1 from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from Rare Junk from Rare Junk from Rare Junk LP side 2 from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy LP side 3 from All the Good Times from All the Good Times from All the Good Times from Will the Circle Be Unbroken from Will the Circle Be Unbroken from Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Disc two

LP side 4 from Symphonion Dream from Will the Circle Be Unbroken from Symphonion Dream from Symphonion Dream Previously unreleased Previously unreleased LP side 5 Previously unreleased Previously unreleased Previously unreleased Previously unreleased Previously unreleased LP side 6 from Symphonion Dream Previously unreleased Previously unreleased Previously unreleased Previously unreleased from Will the Circle Be Unbroken Previously unreleased

Personnel

The Dirt Band 1966–1967 The Dirt Band 1968–1969 The Dirt Band 1970–1976 Contributing Players Will The Circle Be Unbroken vocalists

Production

Production, art direction, design – William McEuen