Mountains (Lonestar album)

Mountains
Studio album by Lonestar
Released	October 17, 2006 (2006-10-17)
Studio	Starstruck Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	42:31
Label	BNA
Producer	Mark Bright
Lonestar chronology
Coming Home (2005) Mountains (2006) Party Heard Around the World (2010)
Singles from Mountains
"Mountains" Released: June 26, 2006 "Nothing to Prove" Released: February 5, 2007

Professional ratings

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

Mountains is the eighth studio album by American country music group Lonestar. It was the band's last album for BNA Records, it produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "Mountains" at No. 10 and "Nothing to Prove" at No. 51. After the single released, the band was dropped from BNA. This was also the last studio to feature Richie McDonald before leaving for a solo career, 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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

• Richie McDonald – lead vocals
• Dean Sams – keyboards, acoustic piano, backing vocals
• Michael Britt – acoustic guitar, electric guitars, backing vocals
• Keech Rainwater – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Additional musicians

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

Production

• Mark Bright – producer
• Derek Bason – engineer, mixing
• J.R. Rodriguez – engineer
• Chris Ashburn – assistant engineer, mix assistant
• Nathan Dickinson – assistant engineer
• Hank Williams – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator
• Judy Forde Blair – creative producer, liner notes
• Astrid Herbold May – art direction, design
• Margaret Malandruccolo – photography
• Angela Cay Hall – grooming
• Stephanie Sparkman – stylist
• Trish Townsend – stylist

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [4]	37
US Top Country Albums ( Billboard ) [5]	10

References

1. Lowe, Jack. "Lonestar - Mountains". About.com . Retrieved May 5, 2013.
2. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Mountains - Lonestar". AllMusic . Retrieved April 30, 2010.
3. "Lonestar: Mountains". Billboard . October 21, 2006. p. 91. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
4. "Lonestar Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard . Retrieved October 16, 2020.
5. "Lonestar Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard . Retrieved October 16, 2020.