Greater Need | ||||
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Released | June 4, 1996 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | BNA #66847 | |||
Producer | James Stroud | |||
Lorrie Morgan chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | B[2] |
Greater Need is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Lorrie Morgan, released in 1996. 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."
Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, with its review by Thom Owens saying that some tracks were "filler" but that "Morgan's performance is consistently stunning."[1]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Soldier of Love" | David Malloy, Anthony Crawford, Richard "Spady" Brannan | 2:35 |
2. | "I Just Might Be" | John Moffat | 3:14 |
3. | "Greater Need" | Constant Change | 4:00 |
4. | "Steppin' Stones" (featuring Vince Gill and Travis Tritt) | 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" (duet with Jon Randall) | Constant 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" (featuring Jesse Keith Whitley[3]) | Lynn Gillespie Chater, Kerry Chater, Cyril Rawson | 3:39 |
11. | "Back Among the Living" | Ewing, Donny Kees | 3:57 |
As listed in liner notes.[4]
Chart (1996) | Peak position[5] |
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Canadian RPM Country Albums | 9 |
U.S. Billboard 200 | 62 |
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 8 |
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||
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US Country[6] | US[6] | CAN Country | ||
1996 | "By My Side" | 18 | 110 | 21[7] |
"I Just Might Be" | 45 | — | 57[8] | |
1997 | "Good as I Was to You" | 4 | — | 17[9] |