Rage On
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{{Infobox album
| name = Rage On
| type = Studio
| artist = Dan Seals
| cover = Rage On by Dan Seals.jpg
| alt =
| released = June 29, 1988
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Nightengale Studio and GroundStar Laboratories (Nashville, Tennessee); Morningstar Sound Studio (Hendersonville, Tennessee).
| genre = Country
| length = 41:21
| label = Capitol
| producer = Kyle Lehning
| prev_title = The Best
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = On Arrival
| next_year = 1990
}}
Rage On is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Dan Seals, released on June 29, 1988, by Capitol Records. The album charted at number 6 on the Top Country Albums chart, his second highest charting album since Won't Be Blue Anymore in 1985. The Singles released were "Addicted", "Big Wheels In The Moonlight", and "They Rage On"; the first two both went to Number One on Hot Country Songs and the title track peaked at number five on the same chart.
Brian Mansfield gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five in his review for Allmusic, saying that the songs were "woven around traditional country themes while rarely resorting to country clichés."{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r94016|pure_url=yes}}|title=Rage On review|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|work=Allmusic|accessdate=October 9, 2010}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| collapsed =
| headline =
| total length =
| title1 = Big Wheels in the Moonlight
| writer1 = Bob McDill, Dan Seals
| length1 = 3:54
| title2 = They Rage On
| writer2 = McDill, Seals
| length2 = 4:40
| title3 = Five Generations of Rock County Wilsons
| writer3 = John Scott Sherrill
| length3 = 3:14
| title4 = Twenty-Four Hour Love
| writer4 = Mac McAnally, Seals
| length4 = 4:07
| title5 = Factory Town
| writer5 = Seals
| length5 = 3:49
| title6 = Addicted
| writer6 = Cheryl Wheeler
| length6 = 4:15
| title7 = A Heartache Just Around the Bend
| writer7 = Paul Davis, Jennifer Kimball
| length7 = 3:45
| title8 = Maybe I'm Missing You Now
| writer8 = Blackie Farrell, Kimball
| length8 = 3:22
| title9 = Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice
| writer9 = K. T. Oslin, William Soden
| length9 = 3:45
| title10 = Long Long Island Nights
| writer10 = McDill, Seals
| length10 = 4:41
| title11 = Those
| writer11 = Seals
| length11 = 3:14
}}
Personnel
= Musicians =
- Dan Seals – vocals, acoustic guitar (2, 5), backing vocals (4, 5)
- Shane Keister – keyboards (1, 3, 4, 5, 10), synthesizers (2, 6, 8), acoustic piano (6, 8, 11)
- Mike Lawler – keyboards (4, 5, 7), drum programming (7)
- Dennis Burnside – electric piano (6, 8, 11), acoustic piano (9), keyboards (10)
- Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar (1-4, 6, 8-11), guitars (7)
- Don Potter – acoustic guitar (1)
- Brent Mason – electric rhythm guitar (1)
- Kenny Mims – electric rhythm guitar (1), electric guitar (6)
- Billy Joe Walker Jr. – electric rhythm guitar (1), electric guitar (2, 6)
- Joe Stanley – guitar solo (1), electric guitar (5, 9), guitars (7)
- Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar (3), electric guitar (4, 8, 10, 11)
- Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar (6, 8, 10, 11), electric guitar (10)
- Doyle Grisham – steel guitar (3, 4, 8, 10, 11)
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar (9)
- Mark O'Connor – fiddle (2, 3, 8, 11), mandolin (2)
- Mike Brignardello – bass (1)
- David Hungate – bass (2, 3, 5, 6, 8-11)
- Jack Williams – bass (4)
- Eddie Bayers – drums (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11)
- Paul Leim – drums (4)
- Larrie Londin – drums (9)
- Terry McMillan – percussion (5)
- Jim Horn – recorder (3)
- Baillie & the Boys (Kathie Baillie, Michael Bonagura and Alan LeBoeuf) – backing vocals (1, 2, 6, 8)
= Production and Technical =
- Kyle Lehning – producer, engineer
- Joe Bogan – engineer
- Keith Odle – engineer
- Kirt Odle – engineer
- Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
- Larry Dixon – photography
- Jerry Joyner – design
- Virginia Team – art direction
- Vanessa Ware – stylist
- Tony Gottlieb – management
Charts
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=Weekly charts=
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| scope="col"| Chart (1988)
! scope="col"| Peak |
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| scope="row"| Canadian Country Albums (RPM)
| 18 |
| {{album chart|BillboardCountry|6|artist=Dan Seals|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 30, 2021}} |
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=Year-end charts=
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| scope="col"| Chart (1988)
! scope="col"| Position |
|---|
| scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1988/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1988|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 30, 2021}}
| 54 |
| scope="col"| Chart (1989)
! scope="col"| Position |
| scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1989/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 30, 2021}}
| 23 |
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=Singles=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="2"| Peak positions |
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="50"| US Country ! width="50"| CAN Country |
| rowspan="2"| 1988
| align="left"| "Addicted" | 1 | 1 |
| align="left"| "Big Wheels in the Moonlight"
| 1 | * |
| 1989
| align="left"| "They Rage On" | 5 | 4 |