Mountains (Lonestar album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Mountains
| type = studio
| artist = Lonestar
| cover = Lonestarmountains.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2006|10|17}}
| recorded =
| studio = Starstruck Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
| genre = Country
| length = 42:31
| label = BNA
| producer = Mark Bright
| prev_title = Coming Home
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = Party Heard Around the World
| next_year = 2010
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Mountains
| type = studio
| single1 = Mountains
| single1date = June 26, 2006
| single2 = Nothing to Prove
| single2date = February 5, 2007
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = About.com
|rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite web|url=http://countrymusic.about.com/od/cdreviewsal/fr/Mountains.htm|title=Lonestar - Mountains|last=Lowe|first=Jack|work=About.com|accessdate=5 May 2013}}
|rev2 = AllMusic
|rev3 = Billboard
|rev3score = (favorable){{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g0EAAAAMBAJ&q=lonestar+mountains+reviews&pg=PA91|title=Lonestar: Mountains|magazine=Billboard|date=21 October 2006|page=91|accessdate=5 May 2013}}
}}
Mountains is the seventh studio album by American country music group Lonestar. It was the band's last album for BNA Records, it produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "Mountains" at No. 10 and "Nothing to Prove" at No. 51. After the single released, the band was dropped from BNA. This was also the last studio to feature Richie McDonald before leaving for a solo career, until he rejoined in 2011.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that "the group takes fewer risks than ever" on it.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r860231|pure_url=yes}}|title=Mountains - Lonestar|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|work=AllMusic|accessdate=30 April 2010}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
|title1 = Mountains
|writer1 = {{hlist|Richie McDonald|Larry Boone|Paul Nelson}}
|length1 = 3:56
|title2 = Nothing to Prove
|writer2 = {{hlist|Jim Collins|Wendell Mobley}}
|length2 = 3:56
|title3 = Long Lost Smile
|writer3 = {{hlist|Marc Beeson|Neil Thrasher}}
|length3 = 3:55
|title4 = Thought It Was You
|writer4 = {{hlist|Collins|Craig Wiseman}}
|length4 = 3:42
|title5 = Hey God
|writer5 = {{hlist|McDonald|Tommy Lee James}}
|length5 = 3:46
|title6 = I Wanna Do It for You
|writer6 = {{hlist|Dean Sams|Regie Hamm|Glen Mitchell}}
|length6 = 4:20
|title7 = Cowboy Girl
|writer7 = {{hlist|Brett James|Bill Luther}}
|length7 = 3:32
|title8 = What She Had To
|writer8 ={{hlist|John Edwards|Garrett Parris}}
|length8 = 3:49
|title9 = One of those Nights
|writer9 = {{hlist|Jason Sellers|Tom Shapiro}}
|length9 = 4:13
|title10 = Careful Where You Kiss Me
|writer10 = {{hlist|Jeff Bates|Mobley|Thrasher}}
|length10 = 3:20
|title11 = Always in the Band
|writer11 = {{hlist|McDonald|Ron Harbin|Jerry Vandiver}}
|length11 = 4:02
}}
Personnel
= Lonestar =
- Richie McDonald – lead vocals
- Dean Sams – keyboards, acoustic piano, backing vocals
- Michael Britt – acoustic guitar, electric guitars, backing vocals
- Keech Rainwater – drums, percussion, backing vocals
= Additional musicians =
- Jimmy Nichols – keyboards
- Tom Bukovac – electric guitars
- B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
- Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar
- Mike Johnson – steel guitar
- Gary Morse – steel guitar
- Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
- Chris McHugh – drums
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica
- Jonathan Yudkin – strings, string arrangements
- Wes Hightower – backing vocals
= Production =
- Mark Bright – producer
- Derek Bason – engineer, mixing
- J.R. Rodriguez – engineer
- Chris Ashburn – assistant engineer, mix assistant
- Nathan Dickinson – assistant engineer
- Hank Williams – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator
- Judy Forde Blair – creative producer, liner notes
- Astrid Herbold May – art direction, design
- Margaret Malandruccolo – photography
- Angela Cay Hall – grooming
- Stephanie Sparkman – stylist
- Trish Townsend – stylist
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! scope="col"| Chart (2006) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| {{album chart|Billboard200|37|artist=Lonestar|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 16, 2020}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardCountry|10|artist=Lonestar|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 16, 2020}} |
References
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{{Lonestar}}
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