A Street Man Named Desire
# A Street Man Named Desire

Professional ratings :

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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |

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.

## Content

The album's title track charted on Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1992. 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H. W. Bush, who was President at the time, called a station that was playing the song regularly and demanded that it be withdrawn from rotation.

## 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."

## Track listing

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