Hard Act To Follow opens with the jumpin' 'Steppin' Out On A Saturday Night', featuring the fiery guitar playing of Early Times. Scott's own 'Tell Me About It' is reminiscent and on a par with Etta James' 'Tell Mama'. It's great to hear humour in songs like 'Queensize Bed'. 'San Francisco gets a little Chicago during 'Lying And Cheating'. A budding queen of soul emerges during the title track 'Hard Act To Follow; that is a song about E.C. cheating on her man and how she misses him; He's a "hard act to follow". E.C. also gets into gender politics on 'Men Gossip Too'. 'Sweet Man Of Mine' is pure jazz-soul. The Drifters and many others would have loved to have recorded 'Another Night In Paradise. Heart rendering, soulful honesty comes through on 'If You're A Good Woman'. E.C. rounds off this brilliant album with The Eurythmics 'Missionary Man', that she literally transforms into her own.