Stickin' to My Guns

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Stickin' to My Guns
Stickin' to My Guns.jpg
Studio album by
Etta James
Released1990
StudioDigital Recorders, Nashville, Tennessee; OmniSound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Funk rock [1]
Label Island [2]
Producer Barry Beckett
Etta James chronology
Seven Year Itch
(1989)		Stickin' to My Guns
(1990)		 The Right Time
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Calgary Herald A [4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Windsor Star A [8]

Stickin' to My Guns is the sixteenth studio album by Etta James, released in 1990. [9] [10] It was nominated for a Grammy for "Best Contemporary Blues Recording". [11]

Contents

Production

The album contains a duet with rapper Def Jef. Although it reunited her with several Muscle Shoals musicians, James later expressed ambivalence about the more electronic sound of the album. [5] [12] Stickin' to My Guns was produced by Barry Beckett. [7]

Critical reception

Rolling Stone called the album "a nonstop dance party filled with house rockers like 'Love to Burn' and turn-the-lights-down-low, slow-grind numbers like 'Your Good Thing (Is About to End)'." [13] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide deemed it "a largely unsuccessful attempt to incorporate rap and hip-hop into a more traditional R&B context." [6] The New York Times called it "the best album Aretha Franklin never made, as Ms. James belts out songs about lovers and deceivers." [14]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Whatever Gets You Through the Night" Carson Whitsett, Dan Penn, Hoy "Bucky" Lindsey3:48
2."Love to Burn"Bud Reneau, Dobie Gray, Ricky Ray Rector 3:29
3."The Blues Don't Care"Etta James3:41
4."Your Good Thing (Is About to End)" Isaac Hayes, David Porter 3:52
5."Get Funky"Danny Rhodes4:45
6."Beware"Eric Randle3:39
7."Out of the Rain" Tony Joe White 4:33
8."Stolen Affection"Jim Hurt, Jonnie Barnett 3:52
9."A Fool in Love"Allan Fraser, Frankie Miller 3:24
10."I've Got Dreams To Remember"Joe Rock, Otis Redding, Zelma Redding4:28

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly, eds. (1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews : Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist (3rd ed.). Random House. p. 358. ISBN   0-679-73729-4. Of her two Island albums, Stickin ' to My Guns best shows her adapting a hard R&B approach to a contemporary funk-rock sound.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin. Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2021– via Google Books.
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  4. ↑ Brennan, Brian (14 June 1990). "JAZZ DISCS". Calgary Herald. p. E3.
  5. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. pp. 566–567.
  6. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 590.
  7. 1 2 The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 357–358.
  8. ↑ Shaw, Ted (16 June 1990). "Record Review". Windsor Star. p. C2.
  9. ↑ "Etta James | Biography & History". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2018-06-17. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  10. ↑ Pareles, Jon (December 30, 1990). "POP MUSIC/1990; The Best Show? In the Court, Not the Concert Hall". Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2021– via NYTimes.com.
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