Tiger in the Rain is an album by singer-songwriter Michael Franks, released in 1979 on Warner Bros.[1] It was his first album not produced by Tommy LiPuma, Al Schmitt, and Lee Hershberg.

[2] The album cover features "Tiger in a Tropical Storm", an oil painting by Henri Rousseau.

A. Colin Flood wrote in Enjoy the Music magazine that the album "[continues to] express Franks’ original synthesis of smooth jazz/rock fusion, again with the understated South American underbeats" that "subsides into clever adult sentiments.

"[3] For PopMatters, Rob Caldwell praised the "clever turn[s] of phrase" that work at a "symbolic level (Franks wasn’t a literature major for nothing)" and "[t]here’s something to be said for escapism, for the armchair-travelling Michael Franks’ music offers.

"[4] Music critic Stephen J. Matteo commented for AllMusic the album was "[l]ush, romantic and more experimental than previous efforts" and that while "none of its songs has the instant appeal of some of his earlier writing, the album as a whole is as refreshing and meditative as a stroll through a rain forest.