| True Love | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | The Desert Rose Band |
| Cover: | TrueLoveTheDesertRoseBand1991.jpg |
| Released: | October 1, 1991 |
| Recorded: | 1991 |
| Genre: | Country, country rock |
| Label: | Curb |
| Producer: | Tony Brown |
| Prev Title: | A Dozen Roses – Greatest Hits |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Traditional |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
True Love is the fourth album by the country rock band The Desert Rose Band, released in 1991.[1] The album was released by the Curb record label, failing to make an impact on the American Country charts.
The track "Undying Love" featured a special guest appearance by Alison Krauss.[1]
Two singles were released from the album, "You Can Go Home" and "Twilight Is Gone". "You Can Go Home" was released in 1991, peaking at number 53 on the U.S. Hot Country Singles chart.[2] A music video was created for the single, directed by Gustavo Garzon. "Twilight Is Gone" was released in 1992, peaking at number 67 on the U.S. Hot Country Singles chart.[2] No music video was created for the single.
At the request of MCA, the band had attempted to record an album that would be even more commercially appealing than the band's previous work. Despite this, True Love proved to be the Desert Rose Band's first album to fail to enter the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.[3] After the album's failure, along with the limited success of its singles, leading member Chris Hillman spoke of his regret over the album and its direction to Billboard in 1994: "Any disgruntled artist can point fingers, but we were mildly seduced by the record company to go in a direction which they thought would break us through. So we compromised on a lot of things, and while it wasn't a complete disaster, it wasn't a good album. We got resistance at radio, and the record company bailed."[4]
He told the Los Angeles Times in 1993: "I made one of the most monumental blunders anybody can make, I stopped listening to my intuitive voice, the voice that says: "Don't do that, don't write that." I was seduced by the business side of it with all this stuff. I was doing every stupid thing, like a 20-year-old kid thinking "Gee, they're gonna really get behind it." I fooled myself."[5]