Jay Dee Maness left the band in 1990 and was replaced on pedal steel guitar by Tom Brumley whom Jay Dee replaced in the Buckaroos.

Jay Dee Maness left the band in 1990 and was replaced on pedal steel guitar by Tom Brumley whom Jay Dee replaced in the Buckaroos.

Members opted to continue the project as the Desert Rose Band, sans Fogelberg, after the tour, enlisting the talents of Steve Duncan on drums and Jay Dee Maness on pedal steel guitar.

In the late-’80s he reunited with Chris Hillman as part of the very successful country outfit the Desert Rose Band (the band scored with Top-10 singles), and while he maintains a professional ...

The band was very much at home on a Nashville stage, with each member recognizing various friends and peers in the audience from time to time as they played.

The Desert Rose Band couldn’t have picked a more apropos site for launching a brief reunion tour than Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace in the capital of California country music.

John Jorgenson – proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone – is perhaps best known for his guitar work with bands such as the ...