Mountain Music is the sixth studio album by American 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 studio album. In 1998, the album was certified 5× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No.14 on the Billboard 200.
Track listing
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 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) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1 U.S. Billboard 200 14 Canadian RPM Top Albums 38
Year End Chart (1982) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 3 U.S. Billboard 200 30
Year End Chart (1983) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1 U.S. Billboard 200 19
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 —
Certifications
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