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Mountain Music (album)

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Recorded
  
1981

Label
  
RCA Records

Artist
  
Alabama

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
39:21

Producer
  
Alabama Harold Shedd

Release date
  
25 February 1982

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Released
  
February 25, 1982 October 25, 1990 (re-release)

Mountain Music (1982)
  
The Closer You Get... (1983)

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

Nominations
  
Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year

Similar
  
Alabama albums, Country music albums

Alabama mountain music 1982


Mountain Music is the sixth studio album by country music group Alabama, released in 1982. A crossover success, it ranked well as an album on both country and pop charts and launched singles that were successful in several markets. This is Alabama's most successful non-compilation album. In 1998, the album was certified 5× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Contents

A Side

  1. "Mountain Music" (Randy Owen) – 4:12
  2. "Close Enough to Perfect" (Carl Chambers) – 3:34
  3. "Words at Twenty Paces" (Hugh Moffatt) – 3:54
  4. "Changes Comin' On" (Buddy Cannon, Jimmy Darrell, Dean Dillon) – 6:51
  5. "Green River" (John Fogerty) – 2:51

B Side

  1. "Take Me Down" (Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington) – 4:53
  2. "You Turn Me On" (Teddy Gentry, Owen) – 3:11
  3. "Never Be One" (Gentry) – 2:46
  4. "Lovin' You Is Killin' Me" (Jeff Cook) – 3:00
  5. "Gonna Have a Party" (Bruce Channel, Cliff Cochran, Kieran Kane) – 4:09

Note: The BMGSP reissue of this album replaces the full versions of "Mountain Music" and "Take Me Down" with their single edits.

Alabama

  • Jeff Cook - vocals and lead guitar, lead vocals on "Green River" and "Lovin' You Is Killin' Me"
  • Teddy Gentry - vocals and bass guitar, lead vocals on "Never Be One"
  • Mark Herndon - drums and percussion
  • Randy Owen - lead vocals and rhythm guitar

    • Owen, Cook and Gentry share lead vocals on "Gonna Have a Party" and one verse of "Mountain Music"

    Additional musicians

  • Hayward Bishop - drums
  • Mark Casstevens - background vocals, guitar
  • Michael Douchette - harmonica
  • David Hanner - guitar
  • David Humphreys - drums
  • George Leo Jackson - guitar
  • Jerry Kroon - drums
  • Rodger Morris - keyboards, Synclavier II, Emulator, Prophet 5
  • Fred Newell - guitar
  • Larry Paxton - bass guitar
  • William Rainsford - keyboards
  • Dale Sellers - guitar
  • W. David Smith - bass guitar
  • Bruce Watkins - banjo, violin

    • String arrangements by Kristin Wilkinson

    Production

  • Paul Goldberg - engineer
  • Randy Kling - mastering
  • David Lebon - photography
  • Gene Rice - engineer
  • Norman Seeff - photography
  • Harold Shedd - producer, engineer

    • Album

    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".

    Singles

    The album produced three hit singles, with the title song "Mountain Music" reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The other two singles were successful in several 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.

    Songs

    1Mountain Music4:12
    2Close Enough to Perfect3:35
    3Words at Twenty Paces3:53

    References

    Mountain Music (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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