B-side "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" Format 7" single Length 2:59 | Released May 1983 Genre Country Label MDJ | |
"Atlanta Burned Again Last Night" is a song recorded by American country music group Atlanta. It was released in May 1983 as the lead single from their debut album Pictures. The song reached No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart It was written by Jeff Stevens, Terry Dotson, and Dwaine Rowe. Released through Larry McBride's MDJ label, it was one of the highest-charting debut singles by an independently signed country act.
The song visits a common theme in country music: a teen-aged boy's sexual initiation by a married woman. Here, a 17-year-old boy (depicted as "dating a high school queen") meets and begins a relationship with a woman who is "over 30," in her second marriage and having a son that was nearly as old as her teen-aged partner. The lyrics focused on the intimacy shared between the two, which in the process met her needs and turned him into a man ("He made her feel needed/And she made him a man").