Mountains (Lonestar album)

Mountains
Studio album by Lonestar
Released	October 17, 2006
Genre	Country
Label	BNA
Producer	Mark Bright
Lonestar chronology
Coming Home (2005) Mountains (2006) Party Heard Around the World (2010)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[1]
Allmusic	[2]
Billboard	(favorable)[3]

Mountains is the seventh studio album released by American country music group Lonestar. Its final album for BNA Records, it produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "Mountains" at #10 and "Nothing to Prove" at #51. After the latter single peaked, the band was dropped from BNA, due to declining sales. The album was also the last album of their career to feature Richie McDonald on lead vocals until he rejoined in 2011.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that "the group takes fewer risks than ever" on it.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Mountains" (Richie McDonald, Larry Boone, Paul Nelson) – 3:56
2. "Nothing to Prove" (Jim Collins, Wendell Mobley) – 3:56
3. "Long Lost Smile" (Marc Beeson, Neil Thrasher) – 3:55
4. "Thought It Was You" (Collins, Craig Wiseman) – 3:42
5. "Hey God" (McDonald, Tommy Lee James) – 3:46
6. "I Wanna Do It for You" (Dean Sams, Regie Hamm, Glen Mitchell) – 4:20
7. "Cowboy Girl" (Brett James, Bill Luther) – 3:32
8. "What She Had To" (John Edwards, Garrett Parris) – 3:49
9. "One of those Nights" (Jason Sellers, Tom Shapiro) – 4:13
10. "Careful Where You Kiss Me" (Jeff Bates, Mobley, Thrasher) – 3:20
11. "Always in the Band" (McDonald, Ron Harbin, Jerry Vandiver) – 4:02

Personnel

Lonestar

• Michael Britt- acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Richie McDonald- lead vocals
• Keech Rainwater- drums, percussion
• Dean Sams- keyboards, piano, background vocals

Additional Musicians

• Tom Bukovac- electric guitar
• Eric Darken- percussion
• Wes Hightower- background vocals
• Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson- harmonica
• Mike Johnson- steel guitar
• B. James Lowry- acoustic guitar
• Chris McHugh- drums
• Gary Morse- steel guitar
• Jimmy Nichols- keyboards
• Jimmie Lee Sloas- bass guitar
• Bryan Sutton- acoustic guitar
• Jonathan Yudkin- string arrangements, strings

Chart performance

Chart (2006)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	10
U.S. Billboard 200	37

References

1. Lowe, Jack. "Lonestar - Mountains". About.com. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
2. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Mountains - Lonestar". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
3. "Lonestar: Mountains". Billboard: 91. 21 October 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2013.