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Surely You Joust

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Released
  
June 1986

Release date
  
June 1986

Label
  
MCA Records

Artist
  
Ray Stevens

Producer
  
Ray Stevens

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Recorded
  
Ray Stevens Studio, Nashville, Tennessee

Surely You Joust (1986)
  
The Very Best of Ray Stevens/Roger Miller (1986)

Genres
  
Country music, Novelty song

Similar
  
Ray Stevens albums, Country music albums

Ray stevens southern air


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.

Contents

Album credits

Per liner notes.

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
  • Norro Wilson — armpit sounds
  • Songs

    1Southern Air5:28
    2People's Court4:48
    3Bionie and the Robotics4:30

    References

    Surely You Joust Wikipedia