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Mountain Music

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-03-07
Summary: "Alabama "Mountain Music" Pure Alabama Gold!!!!"

An excellent cd containing the songs: "Mountain Music", "Close Enought to Perfect", "Words at Twenty Paces", "Changes Comin'On", "Green River", "Take me Down", "You Turn Me On", "Never Be One", "Lovin' You is Killin' Me", and "Gonna Have a Party". This is Alabama at their best,and I highly, gladly recommend it. Thanks!!!!

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-02-26
Summary: "Warning! The title track is not the original."

I got this on cassette back in 1982 when it was first released and it somehow got lost,so I bought a CD copy.I knew something was wrong immediately when the harmonica line with the old man saying he wants to climb a mountain did not appear and the song started right away.The song was over before I knew it and it was considerably shorter than I remembered.

In a side by side comparison,I soon discovered that the version of "Mountain Music" that appears on this album is the crappy sounding shorter, remix version and is the same one that appears on the 41 number one hits collection.The worst thing is that it is not indicated anywhere on the front cover that the content of the album has been changed. Why? I guess the folks at Bmg thought the fans would'nt notice,but it's wrong to cheat the fans out of what they paid for despite the fact the remainder of the album remains intact.

My suggestion is to go further into the Alabama catalog and buy an older copy of this album released under the RCA label.It has the RCA logo at the bottom of the album cover.The version of the song,"Mountain Music" is the full length,true original.It sounds great and is the only authentic version of this album available.Avoid this reissued version at all costs.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-09-18
Summary: "Classic."

This is another classic from the Band Alabama. With songs like Mountain music, Close enough to perfect, and Take me down how can you go wrong?

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-01-12
Summary: "Third album is a classic"

Following the huge success of their second album, Feels so right, came this classic album. It yielded three country number one hits. The brilliant title track takes a nostalgic look at mountain music but it is a misleading album title - this is definitely an eighties country album. Take me down is a cover of a song by pop group Exile, who later switched to country and became Alabama's main rivals for a while. The other number one hit, Close enough to perfect, would have been an accurate album title.
Elsewhere, this album contains many excellent songs, both ballads and up-tempo, most notably Green river (a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic), Words at twenty paces and the closing Gonna have a party.

This is one of Alabama's most successful original albums and deservedly so. You can find the hits on For the record 41 number one hits, but if you want to go beyond that, this should be high on your list of Alabama albums to collect.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2006-03-18
Summary: "Alabama Mountain Music"

Track Listings:

1. Mountain Music
2. Close Enough To Perfect
3. Words At Twenty Paces
4. Changes Comin' On
5. Green River
6. Take Me Down
7. You Turn Me On
8. Never Be One
9. Lovin' You Is Killin' Me
10. Gonna Have A Party