Mountain Music (Alabama album)
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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 5x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[3]
Track listing
A Side
- "Mountain Music" (Randy Owen) – 4:12
- "Close Enough to Perfect" (Carl Chambers) – 3:34
- "Words at Twenty Paces" (Hugh Moffatt) – 3:54
- "Changes Comin' On" (Buddy Cannon, Jimmy Darrell, Dean Dillon) – 6:51
- "Green River" (John Fogerty) – 2:51
B Side
- "Take Me Down" (Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington) – 4:53
- "You Turn Me On" (Teddy Gentry, Owen) – 3:11
- "Never Be One" (Gentry) – 2:46
- "Lovin' You Is Killin' Me" (Jeff Cook) – 3:00
- "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.
Personnel
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
- Hayword 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
Chart performance
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".
| Chart (1982) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 14 |
| Canadian RPM Top Albums | 38 |
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.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA)[4] | 5× Platinum | 5,000,000^ |
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* Sales figures based on certification alone. | ||
Notes
- ^ Mountain Music at AllMusic
- ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/alabama/albums/album/104190/review/5942853/mountain_music
- ^ "RIAA – Searchable Database: Mountain Music". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "American album certifications – Alabama – Mountain Music". Recording Industry Association of America.