Mountain Music (album)

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Mountain Music
Mountain Music cover
Studio album by Alabama
Released 1982
Genre country
Length 38:48
Label RCA
Producer Alabama, Harold Shedd
Professional reviews
Alabama chronology
Feels So Right (1981) Mountain Music The Closer You Get... (1983)

Mountain Music, released in 1982, is the award-winning third studio album by country music group Alabama. A crossover success, it ranked well as an album on both country and pop charts and launched singles that were successful in multiple markets.

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[edit] Ranking and Awards

Mountain Music charted No. 1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart in 1982 and reached No. 14 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart the same year. It won 1982's Grammy Award for "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals".

[edit] Singles

The album spawned three hit singles, with the titular "Mountain Music" reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The other two singles were successful in muliple markets: "Take Me Down", a No. 1 country hit, reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 5 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles chart. "Close Enough to Perfect" charted No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles and No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Mountain Music" (Randy Owen) – 4:08
  2. "Close Enough to Perfect" (Carl Chambers) – 3:35
  3. "Words at Twenty Paces" (Hugh Moffatt) – 3:54
  4. "Changes Comin' On" (Buddy Cannon, Jimmy Darrell, Dean Dillon) – 6:52
  5. "Green River" (John Fogerty) – 2:51
  6. "Take Me Down" (Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington) – 3:44
  7. "You Turn Me On" (Teddy Gentry, Owen) – 3:10
  8. "Never Be One" (Gentry) – 2:47
  9. "Lovin' You Is Killin' Me" (Jeff Cook) – 3:01
  10. "Gonna Have a Party" (Bruce Channel, Cliff Cochran, Kieran Kane) – 4:09

[edit] Personnel

  • Randy Owen (vocals and rhythm guitar)
  • Teddy Gentry (vocals and bass guitar)
  • Jeff Cook (vocals, lead guitar)
  • Mark Herndon (drums and percussion)
  • Hayword Bishop (drums)
  • Mark Casstevens (vocals, guitar)
  • David Hanner (guitar)
  • David Humphreys (drums)
  • George Jackson (guitar)
  • Jerry Kroon (drums)
  • Rodger Morris (keyboards)
  • Roger Morris (keyboards)
  • Fred Newell (guitar)
  • Larry Paxton (bass)
  • William Rainsford (keyboards)
  • Dale Sellers (guitar)
  • Walter Smith (bass)
  • Bruce Watkins (banjo, violin)
  • Paul Goldberg (engineer)
  • Randy Kling (mastering)
  • David Lebon (photography)
  • Gene Rice (engineer)
  • Norman Seeff (photography)
  • Harold Shedd (producer, engineer)
  • Kristin Wilkinson (string arrangements)