| Little Junior | ||||
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| Released | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Roy Dea | |||
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Little Junior is an album by the American musician Gary Stewart, released in 1978. [1] [2] It peaked at No. 35 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. [3] The first single was "Whiskey Trip". [4] Stewart supported the album with a North American tour. [5]
The album was produced by Roy Dea. [6] Stewart wrote the title track and "Single Again". [7] "I Got Mine" is a cover of the Ry Cooder version of the 1902 song. [8] Josh Graves played dobro on the cover of the Marshall Tucker Band's "Can't You See". [9] "Honky-Tonkin'" is a cover of the Hank Williams song. [10] The Jordanaires and Linda Hargrove provided backing vocals on the album. [11]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [12] |
| Robert Christgau | B [13] |
| The New Rolling Stone Record Guide | [14] |
Robert Christgau wrote that Stewart is "secure by now in his good-humored bad-old-boy persona." [13] The Commercial Appeal said that "Stewart's quavering voice is the type that calls for neon beer signs, cheap checkered tablecloths and either a broken heart or a lusty gleam." [15] The Dayton Daily News noted that "a million-dollar studio can do a lot for a voice." [4]
The Kansas City Star praised the title track, but opined that "Stewart needs to decide whether he's going to sound like an honest-to-goodness honky-tonker or whether he's going to drift into the Nashville-sound trap." [16] The Boston Globe called Stewart's voice "a devastating instrument, drenched with emotion and a dual capacity to convey suffering and boiled-up craziness." [17] The Citizen deemed Little Junior "funky, country-blues [with] tough guitars and fat-back drums." [18]
AllMusic wrote that "Stewart's aching warble adds new dimensions to shopworn generalizations, often evoking compassion for decidedly unsympathetic characters." [12]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Whiskey Trip" | |
| 2. | "Little Junior" | |
| 3. | "Stone Wall (Around Your Heart)" | |
| 4. | "Can't You See" | |
| 5. | "Single Again" | |
| 6. | "Tequila After Midnight" | |
| 7. | "I Got Mine" | |
| 8. | "If My Eyes Touch You" | |
| 9. | "Honky-Tonkin'" | |
| 10. | "You're Running Wild" |
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