Mountain Music (album)
Mountain Music | ||||
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Nashville, TN | ||||
Genre | Country rock[1] | |||
Length | 39:21 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Producer | Alabama Harold Shedd | |||
Alabama chronology | ||||
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Singles from Mountain Music | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Rolling Stone | [1] |
Mountain Music is the sixth studio album by American
Billboard Country Albums chart and No.14 on the Billboard 200
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Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Lead singer | Length |
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1. | "Mountain Music" | Randy Owen | Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry | 4:12 |
2. | "Close Enough to Perfect" | Carl Chambers | Randy Owen | 3:34 |
3. | "Words at Twenty Paces" | Hugh Moffatt | Randy Owen | 3:54 |
4. | "Changes Comin' On" | Buddy Cannon, Jimmy Darrell, Dean Dillon | Randy Owen | 6:51 |
5. | "Green River" | John Fogerty | Jeff Cook | 2:51 |
6. | "Take Me Down" | Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington | Randy Owen | 4:53 |
7. | "You Turn Me On" | Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen | Randy Owen | 3:11 |
8. | "Never Be One" | Teddy Gentry | Teddy Gentry | 2:46 |
9. | "Lovin' You Is Killin' Me" | Jeff Cook | Jeff Cook | 3:00 |
10. | "Gonna Have a Party" | Bruce Channel, Cliff Cochran, Kieran Kane | Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry | 4:09 |
Note: The BMGSP reissue of this album replaces the full versions of "Mountain Music" and "Take Me Down" with their single edits.
Personnel
Alabama
- Jeff Cook - vocals, lead guitar, and fiddle, 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
- Jack Eubanks - guitar
- 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
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
Chart performance
Album
Mountain Music charted No. 1 on
Grammy Award
for "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals".
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Singles
The album produced three hit singles, with the title song "
Adult Contemporary Singles chart. "Close Enough to Perfect
" charted No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles and No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||||
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US Country | US | US AC | CAN Country | CAN AC | ||
1982 | "Mountain Music" | 1 | 101 | — | 1 | 1 |
"Take Me Down" | 1 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
"Close Enough to Perfect" | 1 | 65 | — | 1 | — |
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA)[4] | 5× Platinum | 5,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |