The Dirt Road (CD - 1992)

Sawyer Brown: Mark Miller (vocals); Duncan Cameron (guitar, steel guitar, dobro, mandolin, background vocals); Jim Scholten (bass); Joe Smyth (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Mac McNally, John Jarvis, Bill Payne, Earl Scruggs, Terry McMillan, Randy Scruggs.

Engineers: Steve Melton, Ron "Snake" Reynolds, Chuck Ainlay.

Personnel: Mark Miller (vocals); Duncan Cameron (guitar, steel guitar, dobro, mandolin, background vocals); Gregg Hubbard (keyboards, background vocals); Joe "Curley" Smyth (drums, percussion).

Audio Mixers: Chuck Ainlay; Ron Reynolds.

Audio Remixer: Jay Johnson.

Recording information: Muscle Shoals, AL; SCruggs Sound Studio, Nashville, TN.

Editor: Milan Bogdan.

Unknown Contributor Roles: David Hood; Mac McAnally; Mike Lawler; Roger Hawkins; Terry McMillan; John Jarvis; Bill Payne; Steve Nathan; Paul Leim; Bill Hinds; Jay Dee Maness.

The band's robust work ethic makes it into these songs about simple life and small-town values, and Mark Miller controls a tendency to over-sing them, maybe because he believes them. Miller's heart is still filled with cliches like "Burning Bridges (On a Rocky Road)," but the sleaze in his voice is convincing on "Ruby Red Shoes," which has to be a song of lust for Judy Garland. ~ Brian Mansfield minimize