'' Southern Star'' is the twelfth 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, ...
band
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,765 ...
, released in
1989
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. The album produced four singles, "
Song of the South", "
High Cotton",
the title track and "If I Had You", all of which reached No. 1 on the
Hot Country Singles
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This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sa ...
charts between 1989 and 1990. It also reached No. 68 on the
Billboard 200
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.
Track listing
Note: Tracks 6, 7, 11, and 13 were not added to the cassette version.
Personnel
;Alabama
*
Jeff Cook
Jeffrey Alan Cook (August 27, 1949 – November 7, 2022) was an American country music artist. He was best known for being a founding member of the band Alabama, in which he contributed to lead vocals, guitar, fiddle, piano and other musical in ...
– fiddle, electric guitar, background vocals, lead vocals on "Barefootin'" and "Dixie Fire"
* Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, background vocals, lead vocals on "I Showed Her", co-lead vocals on "The Borderline"
* Mark Herndon – drums
*
Randy Owen
Randy Yeuell Owen (born December 13, 1949) is an American country music artist. He is best known for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band that saw tremendous mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Alabama became ...
– electric guitar, lead vocals
;Additional Musicians
*
Eddie Bayers
Eddie Bayers (born January 28, 1949) is an American session drummer who has played on 300 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for fourteen years, has three times won the Nashville Music ...
– drums
*
Barry Beckett
Barry Edward Beckett (February 4, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was an American keyboardist, session musician, record producer, and studio founder. He is best known for his work with David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, and Roger Hawkins, his bandmates in ...
– piano
*
David Briggs – piano, synthesizer
* Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
* Steve Cash – harmonica
* Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
*
Steve Cropper – electric guitar
*
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter. His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz, pioneering Southern rock. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The De ...
– co-lead vocals on "The Borderline"
* Costo Davis – keyboards, organ, synthesizer
* Jimmie Fadden – harmonica,
jew's harp
* Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*
Owen Hale
Owen Hale (Born July 15, 1948) is an American musician best known for playing drums with Lynyrd Skynyrd, on their album '' Twenty'' and the Lyve from Steel Town DVD concert. Hale left the group in 1998. He was also a busy studio drummer in Na ...
– drums
* Larry Hanson – electric guitar
*
Craig Krampf
Craig Krampf (born October 22, 1954) is an American drummer, percussionist, arranger, record producer and songwriter.
The majority of his notable credits are as a studio drummer. Since the 1970s, he has played on albums by other artists ranging f ...
– percussion
* Mike Lawler – synthesizer
*
Bernie Leadon
Bernie Leadon (pronounced ''led-un''; born July 19, 1947) is an American singer, musician, songwriter and founding member of the Eagles, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Prior to the Eagles, he was a member ...
–
banjo, acoustic guitar,
mandolin
*
Josh Leo
Josh Leo (born 1953 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer active in Nashville, Tennessee.
Leo was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1976, he moved to Chicago, Illinois ...
– electric guitar
* Carl Marsh –
Fairlight
* Farrell Morris – percussion
*
Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player and composer whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards ...
– fiddle
* Larry Paxton – bass guitar
*
Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
*
Brent Rowan
Brent Rowan (born May 28, 1956 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American session musician and record producer who works primarily in country music. Active since the 1970s, Rowan began working with John Conlee through the recommendation of record produce ...
– acoustic guitar
*
Biff Watson
Fletcher Bangs "Biff" Watson is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. His musicianship has been a part of recording sessions for many artists.
Biography Early years
Raised in Chatham, Virginia, Watson learned how to play guitar at a ...
– synthesizer
*
Reggie Young – electric guitar
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Singles
Certifications
References
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1989 albums
RCA Records albums
Alabama (American band) albums
Albums produced by Josh Leo
Albums produced by Barry Beckett