''Chiseled in Stone'' is the tenth studio album by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist
Vern Gosdin
Vernon Gosdin (August 5, 1934 – April 28, 2009) was an American country music singer. He had 19 top-10 solo hits on the country music charts from 1977 through 1990. Three of these hits went to Number One: " I Can Tell By the Way You Dance (You ...
. It was released in 1988 via
Columbia Records. The album peaked at number 7 on the ''
Billboard''
Top Country Albums
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chart.
Track listing
Personnel
* Mark Casstevens -
acoustic guitar
* Rodney Collins - background vocals
* Sonny Garrish -
steel guitar
*
Vern Gosdin
Vernon Gosdin (August 5, 1934 – April 28, 2009) was an American country music singer. He had 19 top-10 solo hits on the country music charts from 1977 through 1990. Three of these hits went to Number One: " I Can Tell By the Way You Dance (You ...
- lead vocals, background vocals
*
Hoot Hester
Hubert Dwane "Hoot" Hester (August 13, 1951 – August 30, 2016) was an American fiddle player, multi-instrumentalist, and country music and bluegrass artist. He was born on a small farm near Louisville, Kentucky, on August 13, 1951. Hester playe ...
-
fiddle
* Jerry Kroon -
drums
* Carol Montgomery - background vocals
* Ron Oates -
keyboards
* Billy Sanford -
electric guitar
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* Jim Vest - steel guitar
* Dennis Wilson - background vocals
* Bob Wray -
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 ...
* Road Manager - Mike Adams
* Sound Engineer - Buck Jarrell
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
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1988 albums
Vern Gosdin albums
Columbia Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Montgomery (songwriter)