Desert Rose Band
Live From Gilley's L88-15
for broadcast the week of April 4, 1988
01 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Intro - Jim Duncan
02 Why You Been Gone So Long (Mickey Newbury)
03 Under Your Spell Again (Buck Owens, Dusty Rhodes)
04 Love Reunited (Steve Hill, Chris Hillman)
05 Livin' In The House (Steve Hill, Chris Hillman)
06 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
07 Commercial - Suzuki
08 Commercial - Mineral Ice
09 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
10 Hard Times (Jon Brandford, Chris Hillman, Bill Wildes)
11 For The Rich Man (Steve Hill, Chris Hillman)
12 He's Back And I'm Blue (Robert Anderson, Michael Woody)
13 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
14 Golf Digest - Tom Watson
15 Commercial - Hamburger Helper
16 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
17 You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor)
18 Just Tell Me Darling (Chris Hillman)
19 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
20 Commercial - Suzuki
21 Commercial - Hamburger Helper
22 Commercial - Clorox Bleach
23 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
24 One Step Forward (Chris Hillman, Bill Wildes)
25 One That Got Away (Chris Hillman, Peter Knobler)
26 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
27 Commercial - Suzuki
28 Commercial - Hamburger Helper
29 Commercial - Clorox Bleach
30 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Break - Jim Duncan
31 Running The Roadblocks (Chris Hillman, Peter Knobler)
32 Ashes of Love (Jack Anglin, Jim Anglin, Johnnie Wright)
33 Live From Gilley's LG 88-15 Outro - Jim Duncan
This version digitized June 2022 from the vinyl LP. Includes 300 dpi scan of the cue sheet and both disc labels.
The Desert Rose Band was former Byrd Chris Hillman's band from 1987 through 1993. They put out five albums (and a greatest hits comp) between 1987 and 1993, and had a good run on the C&W charts with seven songs in the Top Ten (including two #1's)
This set, recorded at Gilley's in Padadena, Texas, includes live versions of four of those charting singles:
He's Back and I'm Blue C&W #1
One Step Forward C&W #2
Love Reunited C&W #6
Ashes of Love C&W #26
The band was touring in support of their second LP Running, but the set list was drawn mainly from their first album:
From the 1987 album The Desert Rose Band:
One Step Forward (Chris Hillman, Bill Wildes)
Love Reunited (Steve Hill, Chris Hillman)
He's Back And I'm Blue (Robert Anderson, Michael Woody)
Ashes of Love (Jack Anglin, Jim Anglin, Johnnie Wright)
One That Got Away (Chris Hillman, Peter Knobler)
Hard Times (Jon Brandford, Chris Hillman, Bill Wildes)
From the 1988 album Running:
For The Rich Man (Steve Hill, Chris Hillman)
Livin' In The House (Steve Hill, Chris Hillman)
One of the great things about these live radio broadcasts is discovering songs bands never released, and this one has five unreleased songs.
There are covers of Buck Owens classic "Under Your Spell Again" and James Taylor's "You Can Close Your Eyes."
Two songs are from Chris Hillman's solo album from 1985, Desert Rose, which, in spite of its name is note a Desert Rose Band album.
Chris Hillman Desert Rose LP 1985:
Why You Been Gone So Long (Mickey Newbury)
Running The Roadblocks (Chris Hillman, Peter Knobler)
Finally, there's a song that didn't turn up until eight years later. "Just Tell Me Darling" came out in 1996 on Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen's Bakersfield Bound CD.
The Desert Rose Band made four unique appearances on Westwood One shows. I've never seen a second syndication of the tracks. Westwood One often repeated shows with a different set of commercials, but that does not appear to have happened with the Desert Rose Band.
Recorded at Gilley's:
Live From Gilley's 87-39
Live From Gilley's 88-15 (this set)
Recorded at the Ritz, New York City
Westwood One Presents 89-35 (in our archives)
Westwood One Presents 90-07
The last two look like they were bootlegged or grey marketed as Roses At The Ritz (Royal Sound Music – RSM 014 SQ (1994) DISCOGS.com says "This album is made from segments from two concerts at the Ritz, New York in 1987 and 1989." I don't have a copy of the bootleg.
I do have Gilley's #87-39, but Side 2 is so badly scratched that I can't use it. There are too many skips.
I've tried all the tricks I know but can't make it work. So...I'm running a search on Ebay and hoping that
a clean copy will turn up.
On the commercials, we have actor Patrick O'Neal for Mineral Ice, and comic Bill Saluga as his character Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. If his name doesn't jog your memory, maybe his catchphrase "You can call me Ray....or you can call me Jay, or you can call me...." will do so.