| A Street Man Named Desire | ||||
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| Released | September 28, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 42:57 | |||
| Label | Liberty | |||
| Producer | Rich Alves Jimmy Bowen | |||
| Pirates of the Mississippi chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
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.
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H. W. Bush, who was President at the time, called a station that was playing the song regularly and demanded that it be withdrawn from rotation.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]
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]
| Chart (1992) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 75 |
Earthbound is the twelfth album by American pop group the 5th Dimension, released in 1975 by ABC Records. It is the last album for the group's original line-up of Billy Davis Jr., Marilyn McCoo, Florence LaRue, Lamonte McLemore and Ron Townson. After touring with the 5th Dimension in support of this album, Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo left the group to work as a duo and as solo artists.
Pirates of the Mississippi were an American country music band founded in 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee. The original members were Bill McCorvey, Rich Alves, Jimmy Lowe (drums), Pat Severs, and Dean Townson. Severs quit in 1994 and was briefly replaced with Greg Trostle. The band recorded for Capitol Records, Liberty Records, and Giant Records between 1990 and 1995. They also charted nine singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, the most successful being "Feed Jake", which went to number 15 in 1991. After disbanding in 1996, both Alves and McCorvey went on to write songs for other artists. In 2006, the two reunited under the Pirates of the Mississippi name, releasing an additional album titled Heaven and a Dixie Night before disbanding again. Pirates of the Mississippi are known for a country rock sound, and they received significant media attention for sociopolitical messages in some of their songs.
Tracks on Wax 4 is the fourth album by Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds. The record was the first Edmunds solo effort to feature all four members of the band Rockpile: Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Nick Lowe, and Terry Williams.
The New Frontier is an album by the American country music band Highway 101. Released in 1993, it was the band's only album on Liberty Records. Its only charting single was "You Baby You", which reached number 67 on the country music charts.
Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles is a tribute album to American rock band Eagles. It was released in 1993 on Giant Records to raise funds for the Walden Woods Project. The album features covers of various Eagles songs, as performed by country music acts. It was certified 3× Platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 27, 1994, honoring shipments of three million copies in the United States. Several cuts from the album all charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts after the album's release, the most successful being Travis Tritt's rendition of "Take It Easy" at number 21. Common Thread won all of its performers a Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year at the 1994 ceremony.
Tattoos & Scars is the debut studio album by American country music duo Montgomery Gentry. It was released in April 1999 via Columbia Records Nashville. Certified platinum in the United States, the album produced five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts: "Hillbilly Shoes", "Lonely and Gone", "Daddy Won't Sell the Farm", "Self Made Man", and "All Night Long" ; "Lonely and Gone" was the highest, peaking at number 5. "Didn't Your Mama Tell Ya" and "Trouble Is" features Troy Gentry singing alone as lead vocals.
Chad Brock is the debut studio album by American country music artist Chad Brock. Released in 1998 on Warner Bros. Records Nashville, the album produced three chart singles for Brock on the Billboard country charts between 1998 and 1999. In order of release, these were "Ordinary Life" (#3), "Lightning Does the Work" (#19) and "Evangeline" (#51). "Evangeline" was covered by Sammy Kershaw on his 2006 album Honky Tonk Boots, which was also produced by Buddy Cannon and Norro Wilson. "You Made a Liar Out of Me" was co-written by Rich Alves of Pirates of the Mississippi.
When It All Goes South is the nineteenth studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in 2001. It produced the singles "When It All Goes South", "Will You Marry Me" and "The Woman He Loves". This became Alabama's final studio album of original materials until 2015's Southern Drawl. It ranked at No. 37 in Billboard Album Charts and No. 4 on Country Album Chart.
Pirates of the Mississippi is the debut studio album by the American country music band of the same name. It was released in 1990 on Capitol Records Nashville and contains four singles: "Honky Tonk Blues", "Rollin' Home", "Feed Jake", and "Speak of the Devil". "Feed Jake" was the highest charting of these singles, reaching #15 on the Billboard country charts. All of the other singles except "Rollin' Home" reached Top 40 on the same chart.
Walk the Plank is the second studio album from the American country music band Pirates of the Mississippi. Released in 1991 on Capitol Records Nashville, it includes the singles "Fighting for You", "Till I'm Holding You Again" and "Too Much", which was co-written by Lee Roy Parnell and Guy Clark. These singles respectively reached #41, #22, and #37 on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Dream You is the fourth studio album by the American country music band Pirates of the Mississippi. Released in 1993 as their final studio album for Liberty Records, it features the single "Dream You", which peaked at number 68 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Also featured is a cover of Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life".
Paradise is the fifth studio album, and the sixth album overall, by the American country music band Pirates of the Mississippi. It was released in 1995 as their only album for the Giant label, and it did not produce any chart singles. Shortly after this album's release, Pirates of the Mississippi disbanded, and remained inactive until guitarist Rich Alves and vocalist Bill McCorvey reunited in the early 2000s as a duo.
Loving Every Minute is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Mark Wills. Released in 2001 on Mercury Nashville Records, the album produced two singles: the title track and "I'm Not Gonna Do Anything Without You", which peaked at #18 and #31, respectively, on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. The album itself reached a peak of #10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums charts, and #93 on The Billboard 200.
Labor of Love is the fifth studio album by the American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. It was released in 1997 on Mercury Records. It was his third album to achieve RIAA platinum certification and his highest-charting album on the Top Country Albums charts, where it peaked at #5.
Bryan Cuevas is an American country music artist, known professionally as Bryan Austin. Signed to Liberty Records' sister label Patriot Records in 1994, he released an album and two singles for the label. The first of these singles, "Radio Active", charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
When and Where is the third studio album by the American country music band Confederate Railroad. It was issued by Atlantic Records in 1995. The album includes the singles "When and Where", "Bill's Laundromat, Bar and Grill", "When He Was My Age" and "See Ya." Although "When and Where" was a number 24 hit on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks in mid-1995, the other three singles all missed Top 40.
Room to Breathe is a studio album by American musician Delbert McClinton, released in 2002 on New West Records. It was recorded at Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee with additional recording at Bismeaux Studio, Austin, Texas, and was produced by Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton.
Another Time and Place is the second major studio album by the American country music singer Rob Crosby. It was released on July 28, 1992 via Arista Nashville. The album includes the singles "She Wrote the Book" and "In the Blood".
John Corbett is the self-titled debut album of American actor and singer John Corbett. It was released on April 4, 2006 via Funbone Records. The album charted as high as number 45 on Top Country Albums upon release, and included a single which reached the Hot Country Songs charts: "Good to Go".
"Til I'm Holding You Again" is a song recorded by American country music group Pirates of the Mississippi. It was released in February 1992 as the second single from the album Walk the Plank. The song reached #22 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by band members Bill McCorvey and Rich Alves, along with Larry Gottlieb.
