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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.

A Street Man Named Desire
Studio album by Pirates of the Mississippi
Released	September 28, 1992 (1992-09-28)
Genre	Country
Length	42:57
Label	Liberty
Producer	Rich Alves Jimmy Bowen
Pirates of the Mississippi chronology
Walk the Plank (1991) A Street Man Named Desire (1992) Dream You (1993)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Content

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H. W. Bush, who was President at the time, called a station that was playing the song regularly and demanded that it be withdrawn from rotation.[3]

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."[4]

Track listing

1. "Don't Quit Your Day Job" (Rich Alves, Bill McCorvey, Roger Murrah) – 3:13
2. "Room at the Bottom" (J. Fred Knobloch, Kevin Welch) – 4:45
3. "Ain't Got No Idea" (Alves, McCorvey, Steve Dean) – 2:39
4. "All That Your Eyes See" (Alves, McCorvey, Gary Harrison) – 3:44
5. "Mystery Ship" (instrumental) (Alves, McCorvey, Pat Severs, Jimmy Lowe, Dean Townson) – 4:08
6. "My Kinda Woman" (Danny Mayo, Freddy Weller) – 2:59
7. "Some Things Never Change" (McCorvey, Harrison) – 3:41
8. "Mississippi Homegrown" (Alves, McCorvey, Harrison) – 4:53
9. "A Street Man Named Desire" (Alves, McCorvey, Harrison) – 4:53
10. "The Hard Side of Love" (Alves, David Malloy, Jerry Taylor) – 3:51
11. "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

References

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