''The Touch'' is the tenth studio album from 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 (state song), Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Al ...
, released in 1986. It reached No.1 on the
Billboard Country Albums
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chart and No. 69 on the
Billboard 200
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.
Track listing
Personnel
Alabama
*
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 ...
– lead vocals, electric guitar
*
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 ...
– electric guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (5)
* Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (10)
* Mark Herndon – drums
Other musicians
*
David Briggs – keyboards, string arrangements
* Costo Davis – synthesizers
* Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
* Steve Gibson – electric guitar, acoustic 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 ...
– electric guitar
*
John Willis – electric guitar
*
Mike Brignardello
Giant is an American melodic rock band that was formed in 1987. The band originally consisted of founding members Dann Huff (lead vocals and guitar) and Alan Pasqua (keyboard), and had Dann's brother David Huff on drums and Mike Brignardello on ...
– bass guitar
* Larry Paxton – bass guitar
* Roger Cox – drums
*
Roger Hawkins – drums
* Bob Mater – drums
* Milton Sledge – drums
* Charles Buckins – percussion
* Farrell Morris – percussion
* Quitman Dennis – saxophone
* Rob Hajacos –
fiddle
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* The "A" Strings – strings
Production
* Alabama – producers
* Harold Shedd – producer
* Jim Cotton – engineer
* Joe Scaife – engineer
* George W. Clinton – assistant engineer
* Paul Goldberg – assistant engineer
* Benny Quinn – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
* Bill Brunt at Private Eye Studio – art direction, design
*
Greg Gorman
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– photography
Chart performance
Album
Singles
Certifications
References
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1986 albums
RCA Records albums
Alabama (American band) albums
Albums produced by Harold Shedd