| Running | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Desert Rose Band |
| Cover: | RunningDRB.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1988 |
| Genre: | Country, country rock |
| Length: | 34:46 |
| Label: | MCA/Curb |
| Producer: | Ed Seay Paul Worley |
| Prev Title: | The Desert Rose Band |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Pages of Life |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
Running is the second studio album by American country rock group The Desert Rose Band. It was released September 6, 1988 via MCA/Curb. The album peaked at number 26 on the Top Country Albums chart.[1]
"Summer Wind" is written about a daughter of divorced parents, who has to live with the frequent absence of her father.[2] [3] Chris Hillman was inspired to write "For the Rich Man" after watching the 1983 film El Norte.[4] Hillman described "Our Songs" as a "tribute to that feeling of the '60s". He added: "I don't see the college kids addressing issues in this country."[4]
"Homeless" tells the story of a woman and her children living on the streets. Hillman told The Tennessean in 1988: "I saw a woman who had the look in her, not of a drug addict or a mental patient, but just of a person. Steve Hill and I concocted a scenario based on that."[4]