Never Been Rocked Enough

The album was produced by McClinton, Jim Horn, Don Was, and Bonnie Raitt; the two recording sessions took about a week and a half.{{cite magazine |title=Never Been Rocked Enough by Delbert McClinton |magazine=Billboard |date=May 9, 1992 |volume=104 |issue=19 |page=53}}{{cite news |last1=Washburn |first1=Jim |title=Delbert McClinton Still Reveling in R & B Career |work=Los Angeles Times |date=24 Sep 1992 |page=F1}} Tom Petty and Melissa Etheridge provided backing vocals.{{cite news |last1=Catlin |first1=Roger |title=On a hot night, nothing like Delbert's blues |work=Hartford Courant |date=11 July 1992 |page=D2}} "Have a Little Faith in Me" is a cover of the John Hiatt song.{{cite news |last1=McLeese |first1=Don |title=Back Home |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=5 May 1992 |page=D6}} McClinton considered Never Been Rocked Enough to be his most radio-friendly album.{{cite news |last1=Allan |first1=Marc D. |title=Delbert McClinton finally coming into his own |work=The Indianapolis Star |date=28 Aug 1992 |page=D4}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/never-been-rocked-enough-mw0000075384|title=AllMusic Review|publisher=AllMusic|last=Parisien|first=Roch|accessdate=March 26, 2021}}

|rev2 = Calgary Herald

|rev2score = A−{{cite news |last1=Tremblay |first1=Mark |title=Recent Releases |work=Calgary Herald |date=7 June 1992 |page=C2}}

|rev3 = Windsor Star

|rev3score = B{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Owen |title=Record Review |work=Windsor Star |date=27 June 1992 |page=F2}}

}}

The Calgary Herald concluded that "this isn't so much a sentimentalization of McClinton's brand of bar music, as its apotheosis." The Boston Globe determined that the album "captures his rough-edged, yet somehow polished, roadhouse sound."{{cite news |last1=Morse |first1=Steve |title=Delbert McClinton Never Been Rocked Enough |work=The Boston Globe |date=14 May 1992 |department=Calendar |page=8}}

The Windsor Star panned "the slick session musicians like the World's Most Dangerous Band." The Ottawa Citizen stated that "the album doesn't blow you away with volume or flash, but wins you over with its roots rockin' integrity and deep-brewed flavors of the southern U.S."{{cite news |last1=Parisien |first1=Roch |title=McClinton no longer the 'kiss of death' |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=23 Aug 1992 |page=C7}}

In a review for AllMusic, Roch Parisien wrote: "The results cover the whole checkerboard while remaining vintage McClinton: his harp wails on 'Everytime I Roll the Dice'; 'Can I Change My Mind' flirts with Motown soul; 'Blues as Blues Can Get' defines the confessional blues ballad."

In the US, Never Been Rocked Enough peaked at number 118 on the Billboard 200 in July 18, 1992.

{{Track listing

|headline =Never Been Rocked Enough track listing

|total_length=40:17

|title1=Every Time I Roll the Dice

|writer1={{hlist|Max D. Barnes|Troy Seals}}

|length1=4:28

|title2=I Used to Worry

|writer2=Tony Arata

|note2=featuring Francine Reed

|length2=2:53

|title3=Miss You Fever

|writer3={{hlist|Dennis Morgan|Feargal Sharkey}}

|length3=4:06

|title4=Why Me?

|writer4={{hlist|Fred Knobloch|Delbert McClinton}}

|length4=3:17

|title5=Have a Little Faith in Me

|writer5=John Hiatt

|length5=4:12

|title6=Never Been Rocked Enough

|writer6={{hlist|McClinton|Seals}}

|length6=3:33

|title7=Blues as Blues Can Get

|writer7={{hlist|Knobloch|Tim Krekel}}

|length7=4:05

|title8=Can I Change My Mind

|writer8={{hlist|Barry Despenza|Carl Wolfolk}}

|length8=3:30

|title9=Cease and Desist

|writer9=McClinton

|length9=2:56

|title10=Stir It Up

|writer10=Bob Marley

|length10=3:32

|title11=Good Man, Good Woman

|writer11={{hlist|Cecil Womack|Linda Womack}}

|note11=featuring Bonnie Raitt

|length11=3:34

}}

• Delbert McClinton - vocals, harmonica, percussion
• Randy Jacobs, Turner Stephen Bruton, Waddy Wachtel, Dann Huff, Sid McGinnis, Cornell Dupree, Fred Knobloch - guitar
• Tom Petty - harmony vocals on "Why Me?"
• Francine Reed - harmony vocals on "I Used to Worry"
• Bonnie Raitt - slide guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
• James "Hutch" Hutchinson, Will Lee, Francisco Centeno - bass guitar
• Benmont Tench - Hammond B3 organ, piano
• Ivan Neville - Hammond B3 organ
• Paul Shaffer - piano, DX7, Wurlitzer, organ
• Mike Duke - piano, backing vocals
• Kenny Aronoff, Anton Fig, Curt Bisquera - drums
• Styhak Levy, Tom Roady, Debra Dobkin - percussion
• Bill Bergman - tenor saxophone
• Greg Smith - baritone saxophone
• Uptown Horns - horns
• Jim Horn - soprano saxophone, horn arrangements
• John Berry - trumpet
• Melissa Etheridge, Donna McElroy, Vicki Hampton - backing vocals

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• [https://www.curb.com/store/albums/362/ Never Been Rocked Enough] at Curb Records
• {{Discogs master|484447|type=album}}
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