Desert Rose Band - Greatest Hits / Dozen Roses

1. Love Reunited

2. One Step Forward

3. He's Back and I'm Blue

4. She Don't Love Nobody

5. Summer Wind

6. I Still Believe in You

7. Hello Trouble

8. Start All over Again

9. Story of Love

10. Will This Be the Day

11. Come a Little Closer

12. Price I Pay - Desert Rose Band, Emmylou Harris

Tracks:

Love Reunited
One Step Forward
He's Back And I'm Blue
She Don't Love Nobody
Summer Wind
I Still Believe In You
Hello Trouble
Start All Over Again
Story Of Love
Will This Be The Day
Come A Little Closer
Price I Pay

Customer Reviews:

Great country rock.......2006-03-27

This is one of my favorite albums. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I also like Poco and Pure Prairie League. If you like them, you'll probably like the Desert Rose Band. And if you like this one, I'd recommend Poco's The Forgotten Trail.

Keeps Getting Better As You Listen.......2005-02-19

"A Dozen Roses: Greatest Hits" is one of the best "Greatest Hits" albums that I've ever listened to. Every song on here is a true charting hit, with the exception of the new releases that are on here. Even those songs, though, are great.

For a guy like me, who was in junior high in the late 80's, songs by The Desert Rose Band were really great to listen to. I'll be honest and say that I never really knew who Chris Hillman was until just a couple of years ago.

I initially purchased this CD for one song: "One Step Forward." None of the other songs were recognizable to me until I actually received the album. "Love Reunited" was a nice beginning to this disc. It, along with just about every other track on this album, was one of those "Hey, I didn't know THESE guys sang this!" I completely forgot about songs like "He's Back And I'm Blue" and "Summer Wind." As a matter of fact, I didn't realize how many of these songs were big hits until I heard them again, so many years after they were released.

I think the real shame here, however, is that you don't hear any of these songs on so-called country radio these days. Instead, it's cluttered with plastic country by guys like Tim McGraw, and pop wannabes like Martina McBride.

There are so many great songs on this disc that I highly recommend it. If you like California-tinged country, or groups like Restless Heart, you're sure to enjoy this disc. It is full of contemporary country hits that stay true to their roots.

I love this disc.

The Incomparable Desert Rose Band.......2004-05-19

Once upon a time Los Angeles almost rivalled Nashville in the number of Country music Honky-Tonk clubs and bars. Sad to say, that scene is almost totally gone. The Palomino closed its doors years ago (I never got there) and outside of Buck's "Crystal Palace" in Bakersfield, Cody Bryant's "Viva Cantina" in Burbank, The Cowboy Palace, and a couple of places down in Riverside and Orange County, Country music is all but non-existent in Southern California.

But it was California Country that gave us Buck, Merle, Rosie Maddox, and yeah, Chris, Herb, Larry Murray, Gram Parsons, Clarence White, the Byrds, the Burritos, Poco, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Linda and Emmylou and a couple of strange dudes named Frey and Henley and their bandmates. And it was from California where this wonderful and incomparable Desert Rose Band, led by two veterans from that genre they helped to create, came out of.
And for six years and 12 top ten songs- most of 'em number one hits, the Desert Rose Band made Nashville stand up and take notice.

There's nobody out there right now with that sound, definitely not the pablum churned out of the Tennessee town. Martina is very pretty and waaay cool, but Shania and Sheryl Crow (LOL) are not really country, and neither are most of the boys (Trace Adkins?? - his last song was more like a Ted Nugent or Allman Bros. video!, and Kenny Chesney??? LOL) these days. The Desert Rose Band was both die-hard Country and Jingle-Jangle Rock. Buy this album, and you will hear Country music that touched the soul on some of the songs, but were so catchy on others that they made ya want to get up and dance.

Even today, there are many of us out here who not only call DRB "incomparable"...and...They most certainly were!

Chris Hillman's eighties country music.......2004-02-18

Chris was, for a time, a member of the Byrds and his enthusiasm for country music was clear even then, especially on the seminal album, Sweethearts of the rodeo. Together with Gram Parsons, he quit the Byrds after that album, formed the Flying Burrito brothers and made more brilliant country-rock music. Chris than faded into relative obscurity for a while re-emerging in the eighties as leader of the Desert rose band, the other members being Herb Pederson and John Jorgenson. The best of that group's music makes up this collection. Chris is lead singer on all but one of the tracks here.

The biggest country hits here are One step forward two steps back, Hello trouble (the only track here featuring Herb as lead singer) and He's back and I'm blue, but the other songs are all of a high quality and include a duet with Emmylou on the final track, Price I pay. Chris succeeded in country music for a while without compromising his ideals but might have achieved greater success if he had been more flexible.

You might describe this music as country-rock but it's more country and less rock than the Flying Burrito brothers. Nevertheless, if you enjoyed his earlier music you should enjoy this.

As Good As It Gets.......2002-05-23

The DRB are superb musicians and Chris Hillman is a master singer/songwriter. Hillman's pipes haven't faded a bit. They can drive a song when needed, yet convey true sentiment without being sacharine. They, like the Mavericks, never fit into a convenient Nashville niche so, unfortunately, they never received the recognition or airplay they deserved. If they had been pushed like many lesser-talented acts, they would have achieved major stardom. Maybe because they didn't sell out is why I like them so much. That and they out-class 90% of today's acts.

Desert Rose Band - Greatest Hits / Dozen Roses

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Desert Rose Band - Greatest Hits / Dozen Roses
The Desert Rose Band , and Chris Hillman
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00008FCSX
Release Date: 1990-12-29

Tracks:

Love Reunited
One Step Forward
He's Back and I'm Blue
She Don't Love Nobody
Summer Wind
I Still Believe in You
Hello Trouble
Start All over Again
Story of Love
Will This Be the Day
Come a Little Closer
Price I Pay - Desert Rose Band, Emmylou Harris

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