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{{Infobox album
| name       = Straight Shooter
| type       = [[Studio album]]
| artist     = [[James Gang]]
| cover      = Jamesgangss.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = May 31, 1972
| recorded   = Early 1972
| studio     = [[Quad Studios Nashville|Quadrafonic Sound]] (Nashville, Tennessee)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/James-Gang-Straight-Shooter/release/875733|title = James Gang – Straight Shooter (1972, Vinyl)|website = [[Discogs]]| date=1972 }}</ref>
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Rock (music)|Rock]], [[hard rock]]
| length     = {{duration|m=35|s=15}}
| label      = [[ABC Records|ABC]], [[Probe Records|Probe]]
| producer   = [[James Gang]]
| prev_title = [[James Gang Live in Concert]]
| prev_year  = 1971
| next_title = [[Passin' Thru (James Gang album)|Passin' Thru]]
| next_year  = 1972
}}
'''''Straight Shooter''''' is the fourth studio album by [[James Gang]], which was released in July 1972 on [[ABC Records]] in the US and [[Probe Records]] in the UK.  This is the first James Gang album recorded after their guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist [[Joe Walsh]] left the band and went on to form the band [[Barnstorm (band)|Barnstorm]].  The remaining members, Dale Peters (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Jim Fox (drums and organ) were joined on this album by ex-[[Bush (Canadian band)|Bush]] singer [[Roy Kenner]] and guitarist [[Domenic Troiano]].  Bush, whose lone album was released in the United States by ABC's subsidiary label [[Dunhill Records]], had broken up at about the same time as Walsh left the James Gang, so Kenner's and Troiano's joining Peters and Fox effectively merged the remnants of the two bands.
==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 =[[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |title= ''Straight Shooter'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r10174 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[[Allmusic]] |accessdate=July 9, 2011}}</ref>
}}
Reviewing for [[Allmusic]], critic [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] wrote of the album "the band was saddled by a noticeable lack of strong material, since none of the members could write songs with memorable hooks."<ref name="AM" />
==Track listing==
All songs by [[Roy Kenner]] and [[Domenic Troiano]], except where noted.
{{Track listing
| title1   = Madness
| length1  = 3:13
| title2   = Kick Back Man
| length2  = 4:51
| title3   = Get Her Back Again
| length3  = 2:45
| writer3    = Troiano
| title4   = Looking for My Lady
| length4  = 2:53
| title5   = Getting Old
| length5  = 3:43
| writer5    = Troiano
| title6   = I'll Tell You Why
| length6  = 3:53
| writer6    = Dale Peters, Troiano
| title7   = Hairy Hypochondriac
| length7  = 2:57
| writer7    = Kenner, Peters, Troiano
| title8   = Let Me Come Home
| length8  = 4:59
| writer8    = Peters, Troiano
| title9   = My Door Is Open
| length9  = 5:55
}}
== Personnel ==
* [[Roy Kenner]] – [[lead vocals]] (all but 5), [[percussion]]
* [[Domenic Troiano]] – [[guitar]]s, [[backing vocals|backing]] and lead (5) vocals
* [[James Gang|Dale Peters]] – [[bass guitar]], backing vocals, percussion
* [[Jim Fox (drummer)|Jim Fox]] – [[drums]], backing vocals, percussion, [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
;Additional personnel
* [[Sheldon Kurland]] – violin
* Glen Spreen - strings
;Engineering
* Gene Eichelberger - Engineering, Remixing
;Cover artwork
* [[James Flournoy Holmes|Jim Flournoy Holmes]] - Cover artwork
* David Powell - Cover artwork
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1972)
!Peak<br>position
|-
|US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]
|align="center"|58
|-
|Canada [[RPM (magazine)|''RPM'' 100 Albums]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.7723.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - June 3, 1972}}</ref>
|align="center"|39
|}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{James Gang}}
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[[Category:James Gang albums]]
[[Category:1972 albums]]
[[Category:Albums with cover art by James Flournoy Holmes]]
[[Category:ABC Records albums]]