Desert Rose Band - Live At The Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum 10-2-22 Cobalt Blue Vinyl/Limited Edition Vinyl LP

Herb Pedersen said, “I remember the night before [the concert], John looked at me and he said, ‘I don’t think I can do this.’ And I said, ‘You’ve already done it, pal! We just need to walk out there and do the show, and that’s kind of what it came to.” 

In fact, Jorgenson recalled, when show time did finally roll around, “We started off with ‘Ashes of Love,’ and when I counted it off and everybody came in, literally it felt like a jet was lifting off the runway. At that point, I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to be able to do this.”

Pedal steel guitarist Jay Dee Maness, however, experienced it very differently. One of the most celebrated and in-demand steel players of the past half century, Maness recalls the first time they came together to run through songs.

“We got into a rehearsal, and you’re thinking ‘Well, let’s just brush up on these songs we haven’t played together in a while.’ After about half an hour, we all kind of looked around at each other and went, ‘Why are we even here?’

“The music comes so easily,”

Hillman said “Maybe the funniest thing is that right before we went onstage, I turned into this football coach and was saying to the others, ‘OK, you know how to do this! We know how to do this. Let’s just have a good time—there’s no room for any anxiety on any level. Everything flowed so well. It probably didn’t really dawn on me until very late in the set that this would be our last show,”

This incredible evening of songs by the highly important bluegrass and country superstars The Desert Rose Band is now going to be released by Friday Music on first time ever stunning Ruby Red Vinyl. The deluxe 2 Lp set will also be featured in a stellar gatefold cover, featuring photos from the live performance, as well as a extensive essay by Randy Lewis.

Produced by Mick Conley, Joe Reagoso and The Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum, and Mastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso (The Byrds/McGuinn, Hillman & Stuart) , "Live At The Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum" is loaded with over two dozen tracks of incredible DRB hits, band favorites and brilliant cover versions of their favorite artists.

The set list spans the group’s full career, from its first single, a reinterpretation of the 1951 Johnnie & Jack country hit “Ashes of Love,” through the barn-burner closer that frequently left audiences fully energized, “The Price I Pay,” a stellar 1990 duet with Emmylou Harris, the singer Hillman had first introduced to Gram Parsons back when.

In between it also revisits “Time Between,” Hillman’s first solo songwriting credit with The Byrds, Dusty Owens’ achingly gorgeous “Once More,” some snappy Buck Owens’ classics —“Hello Trouble,” “Together Again” and “Under Your Spell”—Pedersen’s hard-driving “Our Baby’s Gone,” and a savvy reading of John Hiatt’s “She Don’t Love Nobody.” and the Louvin Brothers’ honky-tonk heartbreaker “I Can’t Keep You in Love With Me.”

The Desert Rose Band's original producer Paul Worley commented “I expected they would be good,”. “But this was -- what? -- 35 years or whatever later? But they were impeccable. I mean, it sounded like the records—it was perfect. I was blown away—it really was a super special night.”