''Champagne Jam'' is an album by the

Southern rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues and is focused generally on electric guitars and vocals. Author Scott B. Bomar speculat ...

band

Atlanta Rhythm Section Atlanta Rhythm Section (or ARS) is an American Southern rock band formed in 1970 by Rodney Justo (singer), Barry Bailey (guitar), Paul Goddard (bass), Dean Daughtry (keyboards), Robert Nix (drums) and J. R. Cobb (guitar). The band's current l ...

, released in 1978. The single "Imaginary Lover" was the band's second Top 10 hit, peaking at #7 in the U.S. and #9 in Canada. The album itself was the band's most commercially successful, peaking at number 7 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Track listing

# "Large Time" (Bailey, Buie, Nix) – 2:55 # " I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight" (Buie, Daughtry, Nix) – 4:06 # "Normal Love" (Buie, Cobb, Daughtry, Nix) – 3:22 # "Champagne Jam" (Buie, Cobb, Nix) – 4:31 # " Imaginary Lover" (Buie, Daughtry, Nix) – 5:05 # "The Ballad of Lois Malone" (Bailey, Buie, Daughtry, Nix) – 4:30 # "The Great Escape" (Bailey, Buie, Nix) – 4:47 # "Evileen" (Buie, Daughtry, Nix) – 3:32

Personnel

* Barry Bailey – electric guitar *

Buddy Buie Perry Carlton "Buddy" Buie (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2015) was an American songwriter, producer and publisher. He is most commonly associated with Roy Orbison, the Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section. Career Buie was born in Marian ...

– vocals * J.R. Cobb –

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, electric guitar, vocals *

Dean Daughtry Dean Daughtry (born September 8, 1946, in Kinston, Alabama) is an American musician. He was the keyboard player with the Classics IV after Joe Wilson departed. They had a 1968 #3 US/#46 UK hit with "Spooky". He co-founded the Atlanta Rhythm Se ...

–

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* Paul Davis – vocals * Paul Goddard –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Ronnie Hammond – vocals, background vocals * Robert Nix –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, background vocals

Production

* Producers: Buddy Buie, Robert Nix * Engineer: Rodney Mills * Mixing: Rodney Mills * Original LP mastering: Bob Ludwig & Rodney Mills at Masterdisk * Digital remastering: Suha Gur * Art direction: Mike McCarty * Design: Mike McCarty * Photography: Rick Diamond

Certifications

References

Atlanta Rhythm Section albums 1978 albums Albums produced by Buddy Buie Polydor Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub