This is a great song, and I agree that Stevie should have saved it for a solo release.
Actually, I think the RAL outtake (the widely circulated and muffled sounding version) strikes me as being a complete and mixed version to my ears, just a bad copy, and would have sounded fantastic on Rock A Little as is. Her vocal is fierce - all that wailing & the double harmony/vocal by Stevie is very effective. I'm thinking this must have been one of the original songs intended for the initial RAL/Mirror Mirror release, but was shelved around the time Jimmy left the project outright and Stevie resumed recording more music with other writers and producers.
RAL probably has the most recorded outtakes of any of Stevie's solo releases and is easily the most fascinating Stevie era of all for me. These sessions would be a treasure trove of material waiting to surface.
Rock A Little is a very solid record as is, I think it gets a bad rap mostly because of the so called dated "80's sound" (which incidentally is all the rage now)
and Stevie's ultra-whiskey rasp vocals - Which I L O V E D! IMO Stevie best records
so far are Bella Donna, Trouble In Shangri-La, Rock A Little & The Wild Heart in that order. OSOTM & Street Angel each have some golden moments.
