A Street Man Named Desire

A Street Man Named Desire is the third studio album by American country music band Pirates of the Mississippi. Released in 1992 as their first album for Liberty Records, it produced a minor chart single in its title track, which was also the only chart single from it.

A Street Man Named Desire
Studio album by
Pirates of the Mississippi
ReleasedSeptember 28, 1992 (1992-09-28)
GenreCountry
Length42:57
LabelLiberty
ProducerRich Alves
Jimmy Bowen
Pirates of the Mississippi chronology
Walk the Plank
(1991)		 A Street Man Named Desire
(1992)		 Dream You
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Content

The album's title track charted on Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1992.[2] Members of the band noted that the song was subject to controversy: a representative of Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States, wanted to use the song in Clinton's campaign. Conversely, a friend of George H. W. Bush, who was President at the time, called a station that was playing the song regularly and demanded that it be withdrawn from rotation.[3]

Critical reception

Rating it 3 out of 4 stars, Jack Hurst of Tribune Media wrote that the band "possess a swingy ear-friendliness as well as a gift for the occasional stunning lyric."[4]

Track listing
  1. "Don't Quit Your Day Job" (Rich Alves, Bill McCorvey, Roger Murrah) – 3:13
  2. "Room at the Bottom" (J. Fred Knobloch, Kevin Welch) – 4:45
  3. "Ain't Got No Idea" (Alves, McCorvey, Steve Dean) – 2:39
  4. "All That Your Eyes See" (Alves, McCorvey, Gary Harrison) – 3:44
  5. "Mystery Ship" (instrumental) (Alves, McCorvey, Pat Severs, Jimmy Lowe, Dean Townson) – 4:08
  6. "My Kinda Woman" (Danny Mayo, Freddy Weller) – 2:59
  7. "Some Things Never Change" (McCorvey, Harrison) – 3:41
  8. "Mississippi Homegrown" (Alves, McCorvey, Harrison) – 4:53
  9. "A Street Man Named Desire" (Alves, McCorvey, Harrison) – 4:53
  10. "The Hard Side of Love" (Alves, David Malloy, Jerry Taylor) – 3:51
  11. "Just for You" (Alves, McCorvey, Townson, John Paul Daniel) – 4:37

Personnel
Pirates of the Mississippi
  • Richard Alves - guitar, background vocals
  • Jimmy Lowe - drums, background vocals
  • Bill McCorvey - guitar, lead vocals
  • Pat Severs - steel guitar, Dobro, lap steel guitar, "Cheezy organ steel", background vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Dean Townson - bass guitar, background vocals
Additional musician
  • John Kelton - strings
Technical
  • Rich Alves - production
  • Jimmy Bowen - production
  • John Kelton - recording, overdubbing, mixing
  • Tim Kish - recording, overdubbing, mixing
  • Glenn Meadows - mastering, digital editing

Chart performance
Chart (1992) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 75

References
  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r109978
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  3. "Social buccaneers". The Leader-Post. June 28, 1993. pp. C7. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  4. "Lorrie's back on track". Abilene Reporter. November 27, 1992. pp. 8D. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
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