''The Road Not Taken'' is the second 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, ...
group
Shenandoah and their most successful album to date. Of the six singles released from 1988 to 1990, all charted within the top ten and three of those, "The Church on Cumberland Road", "Sunday in the South", and "Two Dozen Roses" were number 1 songs on both the U.S. and Canadian country charts. Also included on the disc is "She Doesn't Cry Anymore", a single from the band's
self-titled debut from 1987.
Track listing
Release history
Personnel
;Shenandoah
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Marty Raybon
Marty Raybon (born December 8, 1959) is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of the country band Shenandoah, a role which he held from 1985 to 1997, until he rejoined the band in 2014. He reco ...
(vocals, rhythm guitar)
* Jim Seales (lead guitar)
* Stan Thorn (keyboards)
* Ralph Ezell (bass guitar)
* Mike McGuire (drums)
;Additional musicians
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Walt Aldridge
James Walton Aldridge Jr. (born November 12, 1955 in Florence, Alabama) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.
Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter. He has written dozens of hit country songs ...
* Wayne Bridges
*
Robert Byrne
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Vassar Clements
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and ...
* Bill Darnell
*
Paul Franklin
* Owen Hale
* Bill Hinds
*
Lenny LeBlanc
Lenny LeBlanc (born June 17, 1951) is an American musician and songwriter. He started his career with Pete Carr in 1975 and later separated ways when both had different plans for their profession. A resident of Alabama, he is known for the song ...
*
Mac McAnally
Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr. (; born July 15, 1957), known professionally as Mac McAnally, is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician, and record producer. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums and eight singles. ...
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Steve Nathan
Steven Jay Nathan is an American keyboardist. He is known for his session work in Muscle Shoals and Nashville studios.
Biography
Nathan was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. In 1977, Nathan moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama. After touring wit ...
* Hershey Reeves
* Milton Sledge
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John Willis
;Technical
*Robert Byrne - production, engineering
*Pete Greene - engineering
*Rick Hall - production, engineering
*M. C. Rather - engineering
*Alan Schulman - engineering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
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1989 albums
Columbia Records albums
Shenandoah (band) albums