Plain Dirt Fashion

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Plain Dirt Fashion
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Studio album by
Released1984
Genre Country, country rock
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer Marshall Morgan, Paul Worley
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band chronology
Let's Go
(1983)
Plain Dirt Fashion
(1984)
Partners, Brothers and Friends
(1985)
Singles from Plain Dirt Fashion
  1. "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)"
    Released: May 21, 1984
  2. "I Love Only You"
    Released: September 17, 1984
  3. "High Horse"
    Released: January 7, 1985
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Plain Dirt Fashion is the fifteenth studio album by American country folk group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, released in 1984 [2] by the record label Warner Bros. Records. This album went to #8 on the US Country charts. [3] The three singles from this album all charted in the top 3. "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)" went to 1, "I Love Only You" went to 3, and "High Horse" went to 2. The album is noteworthy for covers of both Meat Loaf's 1978 hit "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" and Bruce Springsteen's 1981 single "Cadillac Ranch".

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)" Rodney Crowell 3:20
2."High Horse" Jimmy Ibbotson 3:15
3."Face on the Cutting Room Floor" Steve Goodman, Jeff Hanna, Ibbotson3:11
4."Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" Jim Steinman 3:20
5."Must Be Love"Bob Carpenter, Hanna, Gram Parsons 3:37
6."I Love Only You" Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz 3:29
7."Run with Me" Marshall Crenshaw 2:58
8."Cadillac Ranch" Bruce Springsteen 3:43
9."'Til The Fire's Burned Out" Hugh Moffatt 3:29
10."Video Tape"Goodman3:00

Personnel

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

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References

All information is from the album liner notes unless otherwise noted. [6]

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  2. NittyGritty.com
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  6. Plain Dirt Fashion, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Warner Brothers (LP) 25113-1