Street Language (album)
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Street Language is the title of the fourth studio album released by American
United States
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 country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
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. It was released in 1986 (see 1986 in country music
1986 in country music
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) by Columbia Records
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, his first release on that label. It peaked at #38 on the Top Country Albums chart. The songs, "Let Freedom Ring", "When I'm Free Again", "She Loves the Jerk" and "Looking for You" were released as singles but they all failed to chart within the top 20. This album was co-produced by R & B artist Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime...

 and features a blend of Soul and country music.

The song "Looking for You" was co-written with Crowell's then wife, Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash
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. "She Loves the Jerk" was written and first recorded by John Hiatt
John Hiatt
John Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...

 in 1983 and was included on his album, Riding with the King. It would later be covered by Elvis Costello
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.

Track listing

  1. "Let Freedom Ring" (Rodney Crowell, Keith Sykes) - 4:29
  2. "Ballad of Fast Eddie" (Crowell, Emory Gordy, Jr.
    Emory Gordy, Jr.
    Emory Gordy, Jr., born December 25, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American musician and music producer. Since 1989, he has been married to country music artist Patty Loveless. Gordy was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992...

    ) - 3:48
  3. "When I'm Free Again" (Crowell, Will Jennings
    Will Jennings
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    ) - 3:48
  4. "She Loves the Jerk" (John Hiatt
    John Hiatt
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    ) - 3:35
  5. "When the Blue Hour Comes" (Crowell, Jennings, Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison
    Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...

    ) - 4:13
  6. "Oh King Richard" (Crowell) - 4:15
  7. "Looking for You" (Rosanne Cash
    Rosanne Cash
    Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....

    , Crowell) - 4:33
  8. "Stay (Don't Be Cruel)" (Crowell, Sykes) - 3:49
  9. "The Best I Can" (Crowell, Hank DeVito, Gordy) - 2:41
  10. "Past Like a Mask" (Crowell) - 4:12

Personnel

  • Michael Baird - drums
  • Eddie Bayers
    Eddie Bayers
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     - drums
  • Richard Bennett
    Richard Bennett (guitarist)
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     - acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
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  • Ben Cauley - horn
  • Bobby Clark - mandolin
    Mandolin
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  • Anthony Crawford - background vocals
  • Quitman Dennis - horn
  • Hank DeVito - steel guitar
    Steel guitar
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  • Rick DiFonzo - guitar
  • Anton Fig
    Anton Fig
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     - drums
  • Vince Gill
    Vince Gill
    Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

     - acoustic guitar, background vocals
  • Bob Glaub
    Bob Glaub
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     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
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  • Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
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  • Jim Horn
    Jim Horn
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     - horn, saxophone
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  • Wayne Jackson - horn
  • Eric Johnson - guitar
  • Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones
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     - organ, synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , piano
    Piano
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    , background vocals
  • Mary Ann Kennedy - background vocals
  • David Lindley
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     - guitar
  • Dave Loggins
    Dave Loggins
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     - background vocals
  • Randy McCormick - synthesizer
  • Joann Neal - background vocals
  • Dean Parks
    Dean Parks
    Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, TX.-Albums:Dean was member of The North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. Dean is best-known through his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan...

     - guitar
  • Mike Porter - percussion
  • Michael Rhodes
    Michael Rhodes
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     - upright bass, bass guitar
  • Robert Sabino
    Robert Sabino
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     - synthesizer
  • Ralph Schuckett
    Ralph Schuckett
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     - keyboards
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  • Steuart Smith
    Steuart Smith
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     - electric guitar
  • Keith Sykes - background vocals
  • Billy Joe Walker - electric guitar
  • Roger "Rock" Williams - horn
  • Peter Wood - organ, programming
  • Pete Wosner - background vocals


Choir performed by 'Catch a Rising Choir' and brass ensemble is 'Uptown Horns'

Album

Chart (1986) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 38
U.S. Billboard 200 177

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country
Hot Country Songs
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1986 "Let Freedom Ring"
"When I'm Free Again" 38
1987 "She Loves the Jerk" 71
"Looking for You" 59

Sources

  • CMT
    CMT
    - Medicine :* California mastitis test* Certified Massage Therapist* Cervical motion tenderness, a sign of pelvic inflammatory disease* Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease* Chemically modified tetracyclines* Circus Movement Tachycardia...

  • Allmusic
  • AOL Music
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