| Battleground | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | HighTone | |||
| Producer | Roy Dea | |||
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Battleground is an album by the American musician Gary Stewart, released in 1990. [1] [2] It was his second album for HighTone Records. [3] The album was more commercially successful than his 1988 comeback, Brand New . [4]
The album was produced by Roy Dea. [5] "Let's Go Jukin'" was written with Dickey Betts. [6] "You're the Reason I'm Living" is a cover of the Bobby Darin song. [7] "Nothin' but a Woman" is a cover of the Robert Cray song. [8]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [9] |
| Chicago Tribune | [10] |
| Robert Christgau | B+ [11] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [12] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [13] |
The Boston Globe wrote that "the album dwarfs much of today's country radio fare—and Stewart is a true master at work." [6] The Chicago Tribune called the album "a convincing illustration of why Stewart is a king of that increasingly rare breed: the honky-tonkers." [10] The Dallas Morning News noted that Battleground "has a raw, hollow, sound that immediately conjures up a dark bar." [14]
The Buffalo News determined that, "scratchy and scrawny as his voice is, there is something quite compelling about the way this country/blues/rock veteran puts across a song." [15] The Fresno Bee listed "Nothin' but a Woman" as the second best country cover song of 1990. [16] Robert Christgau concluded that Stewart's "r&r groove is sharp-witted where Steve Earle's is muscle-headed and the average Nashville cat's just mechanical." [11]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Nothin' but a Woman" | |
| 2. | "Bedroom Battleground" | |
| 3. | "Let's Go Jukin'" | |
| 4. | "Nothing Cheap About a Cheap Affair" | |
| 5. | "Ol' Hank's Lovesick Blues" | |
| 6. | "Woman in Demand" | |
| 7. | "Hey Leona" | |
| 8. | "You're the Reason I'm Living" | |
| 9. | "Delia" | |
| 10. | "Seeing's Believing" |
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