Standing Tall

{{Infobox album | name = Standing Tall | type = studio | artist = Billie Jo Spears | cover = Billie Jo Spears--Standing Tall--LP.jpg | released = | recorded = | studio = Jack Clement Recording Studio | genre = Country<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web |title=Standing Tall': Billie Jo Spears: Songs, reviews, credits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/standing-tall-mw0001216849 |website=AllMusic |access-date=19 March 2023}}</ref> | label = United Artists | producer = Larry Butler | prev_title = The Billie Jo Spears Singles Album | prev_year = 1979 | next_title = Only the Hits | next_year = 1981 | misc = }}Standing Tall is a studio album by American country artist Billie Jo Spears. It was released in February 1980 via United Artists Records and contained ten tracks. The collection contained cover songs along with new material. Of its new recordings were two singles: the title track and "Natural Attraction". The title tune was a top 20 single on the American country chart and a top ten single on the Canadian country chart. The album reached the top 70 of the American country albums chart and received positive reviews from critics. Background and recording Billie Jo Spears had a string of popular country singles and albums during the seventies decade. Among them was the chart-topping song "Blanket on the Ground" and the top ten recordings "What I've Got in Mind" and "If You Want Me". Many of Spears's recordings portrayed female survivors. This included the 1980 single "Standing Tall". The song's success inspired the title of Spears's 1980 album project. The disc was recorded in July 1979 at the Jack Clement Recording Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The project was produced by Larry Butler. ContentStanding Tall consisted of ten tracks. Several of the project's songs were cover tunes. Among them was "Callin' Baton Rouge", which was first cut by The Oak Ridge Boys and would become a chart-topping single a decade later by Garth Brooks. Another song, "Free to Be Lonely Again", was recorded and made a top 20 country single by Debby Boone. Boone's version appeared on the charts around the same time as Spears's album was issued. Another song Spears covered for Standing Tall was Gene Watson's "You Could Know as Much About a Stranger". Watson's version was first a top ten country single in 1976.