Mountain Music (album)

Mountain Music
Studio album by Alabama
Released	February 25, 1982 October 25, 1990 (re-release)
Genre	Country
Length	39:21
Label	RCA
Producer	Alabama Harold Shedd
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Feels So Right (1981) Mountain Music (1982) 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 several markets. This is Alabama's most successful album.

Track listing

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.

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
• Roger Morris - keyboards, Synclavier II, Emulator, Prophet 5
• Fred Newell - guitar
• Larry Paxton - bass guitar
• William Rainsford - keyboards
• Dale Sellers - guitar
• Walter 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
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
		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	—

Preceded by Bobbie Sue by The Oak Ridge Boys Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson Highways & Heartaches by Ricky Skaggs	Top Country Albums number-one album April 17 - May 15, 1982 June 5, 1982 June 26 - July 10, 1982 November 27, 1982 - April 2, 1983	Succeeded by Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson Pancho & Lefty by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson
Preceded by Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson	Top Country Albums number-one album of the year 1983	Succeeded by Don't Cheat in Our Hometown by Ricky Skaggs