Plain Dirt Fashion

Plain Dirt Fashion is an album by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band which was 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.^[4] The album is noteworthy for the remake of Meat Loaf's 1977 single Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.

Track listing

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 / Jimmy Ibbotson) - 3:11
4. "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" (Jim Steinman) - 3:20
5. "Must Be Love" (Carpenter / Hanna / 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" (Steve Goodman) - 3:00

Personnel

• Jeff Hanna - guitars and vocals
• Jimmy Ibbotson - bass, guitars, mandolin, vocals
• Jimmie Fadden - drums and harmonica
• Bob Carpenter - Keyboards and vocals
• John McEuen - guitars, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and lap steel

Additional Musicians

• Bass - Joe Osborn and Larry Paxton
• Drums - Eddie Bayers and James Stroud
• Keyboards - Dennis Burnside
• Acoustic Guitar - Paul Worley and Steve Gibson
• Electric Guitar - Paul Worley, Steve Gibson and Reggie Young
• Fiddle - Ricky Scaggs, Mark O'Conner and Blain Sprouse
• Dobro - Jerry "Flux" Douglas
• Steel Guitar - Sonny Garrish

Production

• Producer - Mashall Morgan and Paul Worley for Morley Productions

Chart performance

Sources

All information is from the album liner notes unless otherwise noted.^[5]