Surely You Joust

Surely You Joust
Studio album by Ray Stevens
Released June 1986
Recorded Ray Stevens Studio, Nashville, Tennessee[1]
Genre Country, Novelty
Label MCA Cassette (MCAC-5795), LP (MCA-5795)
Producer Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens chronology
I Have Returned
(1985)I Have Returned1985		 Surely You Joust
(1986)		 The Very Best of Ray Stevens/Roger Miller
(1986)The Very Best of Ray Stevens/Roger Miller1986

Surely You Joust was Ray Stevens' twenty-third studio album and his third for MCA Records. The album's front cover shows Stevens disguised as a medieval knight with a horse standing next to him. The album's back cover shows Stevens in the same costume but in a junk pile with two junk men. Three singles were lifted from the album: "Southern Air" (featuring Jerry Clower and Minnie Pearl, whom Ray says are his "good friends"), "People's Court", and "Can He Love You Half as Much as I", the last of which did not chart.

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Southern Air" (Special guest appearances by Jerry Clower and Minnie Pearl)Brent Holmes, Stuart Dill5:25
2."People's Court"C.W. Kalb, Jr., David Slater, Jack White4:43
3."Bionie and the Robotics"Stevens, Kalb4:28
4."Makin' the Best of a Bad Situation"Dick Feller2:56
5."Fat"Kalb3:29
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Can He Love You Half as Much as I"Kalb2:50
2."Smokey Mountain Rattlesnake Retreat"Kalb3:21
3."The Camping Trip"Stevens, Kalb5:50
4."Camp Werthahekahwee"Bobby Russell3:53
5."Dudley Dorite (Of the Highway Patrol)"Kalb4:35

Album credits

Per liner notes.[1]

Technical
  • Milan Bogdan – mastering
  • Camille Engel Advertising – CD design
  • Slick Lawson – photography
  • Glenn Meadows – mastering
  • Stuart Keathley – engineering
  • Ray Stevens – production, arrangement
Musicians
  • Mark Casstevens – rhythm guitar, banjo
  • Steve Gibson – electric guitar, Dobro, mandolin
  • Johnny Gimble – fiddle
  • Shane Keister – vocoder programming
  • Jerry Kroon – drums
  • Dennis Solee – saxophone
  • Ray Stevens – vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, trumpet
  • Jack Williams – bass guitar
  • Norro Wilson – armpit sounds

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1986) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 11

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country
1986 "Southern Air" 63
1986 "People's Court" 70

References

  1. 1 2 Surely You Joust (CD booklet). Ray Stevens. MCA Records. 1986. MCAD 5795.
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