Dirt, Silver and Gold

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.

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
 * 1) "Buy For Me The Rain" (Copeland/Noonan) – 2:23 – recorded December 1966
 * 1) "Melissa" (Jackson Browne) – 2:18 – recorded December 1966
 * 1) "Collegiana" (McHugh/Fields) – 2:34 – recorded December 1967
 * 1) "Mournin' Blues" (Sbarbaro) – 3:47 – recorded December 1967
 * 1) "Willie The Weeper" (Rymal/Melrose/Bloom) – 2:22 – recorded January 1968
 * 1) "Uncle Charlie Interview" – 1:39 – recorded November 1968
 * 1) "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 3:25 – recorded November 1969
 * 1) "Some Of Shelly's Blues" (Nesmith) – 3:02 – recorded August 1969
 * 1) "The Cure" (Jeff Hanna) – 2:04 – recorded September 1969
 * 1) "House At Pooh Corner" (Kenny Loggins) – 2:37 – recorded October 1969
 * 1) "Randy Lynn Rag" (Earl Scruggs) – 1:46 – recorded November 1969
 * 1) "Clemente Opus 36 (John)" (John McEuen) – 1:40 – recorded April 1970
 * 1) "Livin' Without You" (Newman) – 2:01 – recorded May 1970
 * 1) "Sixteen Tracks" (Hanna/Jimmy Ibbotson) – 5:11 – recorded August 1971
 * 1) "Fish Song" (Jimmy Fadden) – 4:26 – recorded June 1971
 * 1) "Creepin' Round Your Back Door" (Fadden) – 2:52 – recorded September 1971
 * 1) "Honky Tonkin'" (Hank Williams) – 2:24 – recorded August 1971
 * 1) "Togary Mountain" (McEuen) – 2:27 – recorded August 1971
 * 1) "Soldier's Joy" (Scruggs/McEuen) – 2:09 – recorded August 1971

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
 * 1) "Ripplin' Waters" (Ibbotson) – 5:49 – recorded February 1975
 * 1) "You Are My Flower" (A.P. Carter) 3:34 – recorded August 1971
 * 1) "The Battle of New Orleans" (Jimmie Driftwood)  3:21 – recorded January 1973
 * 1) "All I Have To Do Is Dream" (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) – 3:49 – recorded February 1975
 * 1) "Rocky Top" (Bryant/Bryant) – 2:12 – recorded February 1975
 * 1) "Gavotte No. 2" (Arranged by McEuen) – 1:34 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Jamaica Lady" (Holster) – 4:12 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Mother Earth (Provides For Me)" (Kaz) – 3:26 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Falling Down Slow" (Fadden) – 3:13 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Bowleg's" (Hanna) – 4:13 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Doc's Guitar" (Doc Watson) – 1:32 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Bayou Jubilee/Sally Was A Goodun" (Hanna/McEuen/Fadden/Ibbotson) – 3:03 – recorded  February 1975
 * 1) "Cosmic Cowboy, Part 1" (Murphey) – 3:58 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Win Or Lose" (McEuen) – 3:35 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Woody Woodpecker" (Tiddles/Idriss) – 1:09 – recorded April 1973
 * 1) "Visiting An Old Friend" (Kelly) – 1:53 – recorded June 1976
 * 1) "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Carter) – 4:51 – recorded August 1971
 * 1) "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (Scruggs) – 2:36 – recorded August 1971

Personnel
The Dirt Band 1966–1967 The Dirt Band 1968–1969 The Dirt Band 1970–1976 Contributing Players Will The Circle Be Unbroken vocalists
 * Ralph Barr
 * Jimmie Fadden
 * Jeff Hanna
 * Bruce Kunkle
 * Les Thompson
 * John McEuen
 * John McEuen
 * Jimmie Fadden
 * Jeff Hanna
 * Chris Darrow
 * Les Thompson
 * Ralph Barr
 * Jeff Hanna
 * John McEuen
 * Jimmie Fadden
 * Les Thompson
 * Jim Ibbotson
 * Jackie Clark
 * John Cable
 * Jim Gordon
 * Russ Kunkel
 * Byron Berline
 * Johnny Sandlin
 * Michel Rubini
 * Maury Manseau
 * Earl, Gery and Randy Scruggs
 * Norman Blake
 * Vassar Clements
 * Doc Watson
 * Roy "Junior" Huskey
 * Bernie Mysior
 * Bobby Carpenter
 * Bobby Mason
 * Brian Savage
 * David James Holster
 * Hayden Gregg
 * Mother Maybelle Carter
 * Jimmy Martin
 * Roy Acuff

Production
Production, art direction, design – William McEuen