Atlanta Rhythm Section (album)

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Atlanta Rhythm Section
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Released1972
Recorded Studio One, Doraville, Georgia
Genre Southern rock
Label Decca [1]
Producer Buddy Buie [2]
Atlanta Rhythm Section chronology
Atlanta Rhythm Section
(1972)
Back Up Against the Wall
(1973)

Atlanta Rhythm Section is the 1972 first album by the American Southern rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section. [2] It was released on the Decca label, DL-75265. [3] It was produced by Buddy Buie, and is currently the group's only album to feature original lead vocalist Rodney Justo.

Contents

The album was re-released in 1977 as a double album with Back Up Against the Wall , by the MCA label, MCA-24114.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Love Me Just A Little (Sometime)"Nix, Daughtry, Buie6:05
2."Baby No Lie"Nix, Daughtry, Buie, Bailey3:51
3."All In Your Mind"Buie, Cobb3:16
4."Earnestine"Nix, Daughtry, Bailey, Goddard2:33
5."Forty Days And Forty Nights" Randall Bramblett, Davis Causey, Jones4:21
6."Another Man's Woman (It's So Hard)"Nix, Daughtry, Buie4:46
7."Days Of Our Lives"Buie, Bailey, Cobb3:12
8."Yours And Mine"Nix, Buie2:39
9."Can't Stand It No More"Buie, Cobb, Justo4:02
10."One More Problem"Nix, Daughtry, Buie, Bailey3:08

Personnel

Atlanta Rhythm Section

Production

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References

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