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Straight Shooter is the fourth studio album by James Gang, which was released in July 1972 on ABC Records in the US and Probe Records in the UK. This is the first James Gang album recorded after their guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Joe Walsh left the band and went on to form the band, Barnstorm. The remaining members, Dale Peters (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Jim Fox (drums and organ) were joined on this album by ex-Bush singer Roy Kenner and guitarist Domenic Troiano. Bush, whose lone album was released in the United States by ABC's subsidiary label Dunhill Records, had broken up at about the same time as Walsh left the James Gang, so Kenner's and Troiano's joining Peters and Fox effectively merged the remnants of the two bands.

Straight Shooter
Studio album by James Gang
Released	May 31, 1972
Recorded	Early 1972
Studio	Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee[1]
Genre	Rock, hard rock
Length	35:15
Label	ABC, Probe
Producer	James Gang
James Gang chronology
James Gang Live in Concert (1971) Straight Shooter (1972) Passin' Thru (1972)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

Reviewing for Allmusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote of the album "the band was saddled by a noticeable lack of strong material, since none of the members could write songs with memorable hooks."[2]

Track listing

All songs by Roy Kenner and Domenic Troiano, except where noted.

Personnel

• Roy Kenner – lead vocals (all but 5), percussion
• Domenic Troiano – guitars, backing and lead (5) vocals
• Dale Peters – bass guitar, backing vocals, percussion
• Jim Fox – drums, backing vocals, percussion, keyboards

Additional personnel

• Sheldon Kurland – violin
• Glen Spreen - strings

Engineering

• Gene Eichelberger - Engineering, Remixing

Cover artwork

• Jim Flournoy Holmes - Cover artwork
• David Powell - Cover artwork

Charts

Chart (1972)	Peak position
US Billboard 200	58
Canada RPM 100 Albums[3]	39

References

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