Plain Dirt Fashion

Plain Dirt Fashion is the fifteenth album by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, released in 1984 by the record label Warner Bros. Records. This album went to #8 on the US Country charts. 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 the remake of both Meat Loaf's 1977 single Two Out of Three Ain't Bad and Bruce Springsteen's 1981 single Cadillac Ranch.

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, Ibbotson) - 3:11
 * 4) "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" (Jim Steinman) - 3:20
 * 5) "Must Be Love" (Bob 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" (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, Larry Paxton
 * Drums - Eddie Bayers, James Stroud
 * Keyboards - Dennis Burnside
 * Acoustic Guitar - Paul Worley, Steve Gibson
 * Electric Guitar - Paul Worley, Steve Gibson, Reggie Young
 * Fiddle - Ricky Scaggs, Mark O'Connor, Blain Sprouse
 * Dobro - Jerry "Flux" Douglas
 * Steel Guitar - Sonny Garrish

Production

 * Producer - Marshall Morgan and Paul Worley for Morley Productions