Just_Us_(Alabama_album)
Just Us (Alabama album)
1987 album by the American band, Alabama
Just Us is the eleventh studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in 1987. As with most of their albums, the band co-produced with Harold Shedd. The album charted at number 1 on Billboard Top Country Albums, and accounted for three singles. It also charted at number 55 on the Billboard 200.
Quick Facts Just Us, Studio album by Alabama ...
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Released | September 1987 (1987-09) | |||
Studio | The Music Mill (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 41:47 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Producer | Alabama Harold Shedd | |||
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The album's three singles all charted on Hot Country Songs: "Tar Top" made number 7, followed by the number 1 singles "Face to Face", which featured K. T. Oslin on guest vocals, and "Fallin' Again". Lead singer Randy Owen wrote or co-wrote all three singles.[1]
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Tar Top" | Randy Owen | 3:56 (4:55 on CD) |
2. | "I Can't Stop" | Robert Byrne, Teddy Gentry | 3:59 |
3. | "I Saw the Time" | Owen | 3:56 |
4. | "You're My Explanation for Living" | Owen | 4:19 (6:52 on CD) |
5. | "Face to Face" (featuring K. T. Oslin[3]) | Owen | 3:01 |
6. | "(I Wish It Could Always Be) '55" | Owen | 4:43 |
7. | "Old Man" | Gentry, John Jarrard, Lisa Palas | 3:26 |
8. | "If I Could Just See You Now" | Jeff Cook, Lynde Darrell-Boles | 3:14 |
9. | "Fallin' Again" | Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen | 3:58 (7:41 on CD) |
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From Just Us liner notes.[4]
Alabama
- Randy Owen – lead vocals, electric guitar
- Jeff Cook – electric guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (8)
- Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (7)
- Mark Herndon – drums
Additional musicians
- David Briggs – keyboards
- Costo Davis – synthesizers
- Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
- Steve Gibson – electric guitar
- Josh Leo – electric guitar
- Brent Rowan – electric guitar
- John Willis – electric guitar
- Mark O'Connor – mandolin
- Larry Paxton – bass guitar
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- James Stroud – drums
- Farrell Morris – percussion
- Charlie McCoy – harmonica
- Blaine Sprouse – fiddle
- Jim Horn – saxophones
- Mike Haynes – piccolo trumpet
- Bobby G. Taylor – English horn
- Sheldon "Butch" Curry – string arrangements
- The "A Strings" – strings
- Bobby Jones and New Life – backing vocals (3)
- K.T. Oslin – backing vocals (5)
Technical
- Alabama – producers
- Harold Shedd – producer
- Jim Cotton – engineer
- Joe Scaife – engineer
- Paul Goldberg – assistant engineer
- Milan Bogdan – digital editing
- Benny Quinn – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Chuck Khun – photography
- Bill Brunt – art direction, design
- Mary Hamilton – art direction
More information Chart (1987), Peak position ...
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More information Region, Certification ...
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA)[8] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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- Joel Whitburn (2017). Top Country Singles 1944-2017. Record Research, Inc. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-0-89820-229-8.
- Thomas Goldsmith (October 4, 1987). "New Alabama 'Just Us' album takes a sentimental journey". The Tennessean. p. 10. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
- Just Us (CD booklet). Alabama. RCA Records. 1987. 64592.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - "Alabama Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- "Alabama Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved May 29, 2021.