Southern Star (album) explained

Southern Star
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Alabama
Cover:	Alabama - Southern Star.jpg
Released:	January 31, 1989
Recorded:	1988
Studio:	The Castle, Franklin, Tennessee Emerald Sound, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre:	Country
Length:	45:43
Label:	RCA Nashville
Producer:	Alabama Barry Beckett Larry Michael Lee Josh Leo
Prev Title:	Alabama Live
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Pass It On Down
Next Year:	1990

Southern Star is the twelfth studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in 1989. The album produced four singles, "Song of the South", "High Cotton", the title track and "If I Had You", all of which reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles charts between 1989 and 1990. It also reached No. 68 on the Billboard 200.

Track listing

Note: Tracks 6, 7, 11, and 13 were not added to the cassette version.

Personnel

Alabama

• Jeff Cook  - fiddle, electric guitar, background vocals, lead vocals on "Barefootin'" and "Dixie Fire"
• Teddy Gentry  - bass guitar, background vocals, lead vocals on "I Showed Her", co-lead vocals on "The Borderline"
• Mark Herndon  - drums
• Randy Owen  - electric guitar, lead vocals

Additional Musicians

• Eddie Bayers  - drums
• Barry Beckett  - piano
• David Briggs  - piano, synthesizer
• Larry Byrom  - acoustic guitar
• Steve Cash  - harmonica
• Mark Casstevens  - acoustic guitar
• Steve Cropper  - electric guitar
• Charlie Daniels  - co-lead vocals on "The Borderline"
• Costo Davis  - keyboards, organ, synthesizer
• Jimmie Fadden  - harmonica, jew's harp
• Steve Gibson  - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Owen Hale  - drums
• Larry Hanson  - electric guitar
• Craig Krampf  - percussion
• Mike Lawler  - synthesizer
• Bernie Leadon  - banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Josh Leo  - electric guitar
• Carl Marsh  - Fairlight
• Farrell Morris  - percussion
• Mark O'Connor  - fiddle
• Larry Paxton  - bass guitar
• Michael Rhodes  - bass guitar
• Brent Rowan  - acoustic guitar
• Biff Watson  - synthesizer
• Reggie Young  - electric guitar

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[1]	12
Chart (1990)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[2]	46

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1988	"Song of the South"	1	1
1989	"If I Had You"	1	1
	"High Cotton"	1	1
	"Southern Star"	1	1

References

1. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989. Billboard. December 29, 2020.
2. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 1990. Billboard. December 29, 2020.