Life Goes On (The Desert Rose Band album)
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| Studio album by The Desert Rose Band | ||||
| Released | September 21, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Country, country rock | |||
| Label | Curb | |||
| Producer | Paul Worley, Ed Seay | |||
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| 24.000 Dischi (book) |  |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of Country Music (book) | |
Life Goes On is the fifth and final album by the country rock band The Desert Rose Band, released in 1993. By 1994, the band had officially split up. The band reunited for live performances in 2008 to 2010.
The album was released by the Curb record label in Europe only, and was never released in the US.
The band's final music video, directed by Michael Merriman, was created for the album's leading single "What About Love" which peaked at #71 on the U.S. Hot country songs chart.
Following the commercial failure of the True Love album, the band were dropped by their label MCA in 1992 and both original guitarist John Jorgenson and drummer Steve Duncan left the band. For the Life Goes On album, the band returned to the production team of Paul Worley and Ed Seay, who had produced the band's first three albums, whilst original guitarist John Jorgenson returned to play on two tracks. On the album, guitarist Jeff Ross stood in for Jorgenson and played on the album, although was replaced by Jim Monahan afterwards, whilst the drummer position was filled by Tim Grogan for touring. Monahan was encountered by Hillman in local bands around his own home in Ventura County. Several prominent country and bluegrass musicians made guest appearances on the album, who were also close friends of Hillman; guitarist Tony Rice, fiddle player Sam Bush, dobro player Al Perkins and Larry Park (of Boy Howdy) on guitar.
In a Billboard Magazine article in the issue of August 14, 1993, author Jim Bessman stated that Desert Rose Band might have called it quits if leading member Chris Hillman hadn’t refused to leave the band's 1991 album True Love as the final "calling card". Hillman was quoted "I couldn't live with that. Any disgruntled artist can point fingers, but we were mildly seduced by the record company to go into a direction which they thought would break us through. So we compromised on a lot of things, and whilst it wasn't a complete disaster, it wasn't a good album. We got resistance at radio, and the record company bailed." In relation to the band being dropped by MCA and the leaving of Jorgenson and Duncan, Hillman stated "I was sitting here with Bill and Herb and Tom, and asking, 'Is this it? Should I go solo?' But I couldn't let us go out with "True Love," and we owed Curb two records. So we worked things out with Curb country's division president Dick Whitehouse, and now that Curb has its own distribution and Hal Ketchum's doing miracles for the label, I said, 'You have every opportunity to be a major label. Let's make a record.'"
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