''Highway 101'' is the debut album by the American
country music
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band
of the same name. It saw the group shoot straight to the top of the
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, ...
charts with two singles hitting the #1 spot on the
Billboard Country charts, another rising to #2, and a fourth song at #4. The album itself was a #7 Country album. The #1 hits were "Somewhere Tonight" and "Cry, Cry, Cry." Also, "Whiskey, If You Were a Woman" rose to #2, and "The Bed You Made for Me" did almost as well, reaching #4. Track 4, "Woman Walk the Line" was redone by country singer
Trisha Yearwood
Patricia Lynn Yearwood (born September 19, 1964) is an American singer, actress, author and television personality. She rose to fame with her 1991 debut single " She's in Love with the Boy," which became a number one hit on the ''Billboard'' c ...
for
her sophomore effort, released in 1992.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Singles
Personnel
Highway 101
*Paulette Carlson –
lead vocals,
acoustic guitar
*Cactus Moser –
drums, background vocals
*Curtis Stone –
bass guitar
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, background vocals
*Jack Daniels –
electric guitar
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, background vocals
Additional musicians
*
Larry Byrom
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– acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*Dennis Burnside –
piano
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*John Hobbs – piano
*Jay Dee Maness –
steel guitar
*Tommy Spurlock – steel guitar
*
Harry Stinson
Harry Stinson (born June 3, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian real estate developer from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is president of Stinson Properties, Inc. He has been called Toronto's "condo king".
Biography
Stinson's most significant ...
– background vocals
*Dennis Wilson – background vocals
*Paul Worley – electric guitar
*Curtis Young – background vocals
References
1987 debut albums
Highway 101 albums
Warner Records albums
Albums produced by Paul Worley
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