''Kentucky Hearts'' is the eighth studio album by American
country pop
Country pop (also known as pop country or urban cowboy) is a fusion genre of country music and pop music that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience. Country pop music blends genres ...
band
Exile. It was released in 1984 via
Epic Records. The album peaked at number 1 on the ''
Billboard''
Top Country Albums
Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales ...
chart.
"Just in Case" was later a number 1 hit for
The Forester Sisters
The Forester Sisters were an American country music vocal group consisting of sisters Kathy, June, Kim, and Christy Forester. Having performed together locally in their native Lookout Mountain, Georgia, since the 1970s, the four sisters began si ...
, whose version appears on their 1985
self-titled debut album.
Track listing
All songs written by
J.P. Pennington and
Sonny LeMaire
Alfred William "Sonny" LeMaire (born September 16, 1947) is an American country music artist. LeMaire is best known as being the bass guitarist of the band Exile, a role that he first held in 1977. After lead singer J. P. Pennington quit the band ...
except "Comin' Apart at the Seams", written by Jerry Marcum and
Les Taylor.
Personnel
*Steve Goetzman -
drums
*Marlon Hargis -
keyboards
*Sonny LeMaire -
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 ...
, background vocals
*
J.P. Pennington -
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
, lead vocals, background vocals
*
Les Taylor- guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
Strings arranged by D. Bergen White
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
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1984 albums
Exile (American band) albums
Epic Records albums