Greater Need

Greater Need
Studio album by Lorrie Morgan
Released June 4, 1996
Genre Country
Label BNA #66847
Producer James Stroud
Lorrie Morgan chronology

Reflections: Greatest Hits
(1995)		 Greater Need
(1996)		 Shakin' Things Up
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Entertainment Weekly B[2]

Greater Need is the fifth studio album, released in 1996, by American country music artist Lorrie Morgan. It included three singles, all of which entered the Billboard country singles charts: "By My Side" (a duet with then-husband Jon Randall), "I Just Might Be" and "Good as I Was to You."

Thom Owens of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that some tracks were "filler" but that "Morgan's performance is consistently stunning."[1]

Track listing

  1. "Soldier of Love" (David Malloy, Anthony Crawford, Richard Brannan) – 2:35
  2. "I Just Might Be" (John Moffat) – 3:14
  3. "Greater Need" (Constant Change) – 4:00
  4. "Steppin' Stones" (Kat Graham, J. Francis Keus)– 3:26
  5. "I Can Buy My Own Roses" (Skip Ewing, Victoria Shaw) – 3:13
  6. "Don't Stop in My World" (Ray Pennington) – 2:51
  7. "By My Side" (Change) – 2:54
  8. "Reading My Heart" (Paul Nelson, Gayla Borders, Jeff Borders) – 3:11
  9. "Good as I Was to You" (Don Schlitz, Billy Livsey) – 3:28
  10. "She Walked Beside the Wagon" (Lynn Gillespie Chater, Kerry Chater, Cyril Rawson) – 3:39
  11. "Back Among the Living" (Ewing, Donny Kees) – 3:57

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.[3]

Chart performance

Albums

Chart (1996) Peak
position[4]
Canadian RPM Country Albums 9
U.S. Billboard 200 62
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 8

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country[5] US[5] CAN Country
1996 "By My Side" 18 110 21[6]
"I Just Might Be" 45 — 57[7]
1997 "Good as I Was to You" 4 — 17[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Owens, Thom. "Greater Need - Lorrie Morgan". Allmusic. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Nash, Alanna (21 June 1996). "Greater Need Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Greater Need (CD booklet). Lorrie Morgan. BNA Records. 1996. 66847.
  4. ↑ "Greater Need: Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 286–287. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
  6. ↑ "RPM Country Tracks charts for 22 July 1996". RPM. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  7. ↑ "RPM Country Tracks charts for 7 October 1996". RPM. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  8. ↑ "RPM Country Tracks charts for 5 May 1997". RPM. Retrieved 19 April 2010.