Just Us (album)
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Just Us is the eighth studio album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 from country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 band Alabama
Alabama (band)
Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...

. Released in 1987, the album produced the singles "Tar Top", "Face to Face" and "Fallin' Again". Although "Tar Top" with its #7 peak was the band's first single in seven years to miss #1 on the country charts, the other two singles reached Number One.

Track listing

  1. "Tar Top
    Tar Top
    "Tar Top" is a single by American country music group Alabama. Released in August 1987, it was the first single from their album, Just Us. The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in October 1987, making it their first commercial single not to reach #1 since 1980's "My Home's...

    " (Randy Owen
    Randy Owen
    Randy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...

    ) - 3:56 (4:55 on CD)
  2. "I Can't Stop" (Robert Byrne, Teddy Gentry) - 3:59
  3. "I Saw the Time" (Owen) - 3:56
  4. "You're My Explanation for Living" (Owen) - 4:19 (6:52 on CD)
  5. "Face to Face
    Face to Face (Alabama song)
    "Face to Face" is a 1987 single by Alabama, written by lead singer Randy Owen. "Face to Face" featured K.T. Oslin on guest vocals and was Alabama's twenty-second number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent fifteen weeks on the country chart.-Chart...

    " (Owen) - 3:01 (duet with K.T. Oslin)
  6. "(I Wish It Could Always Be) '55" (Owen) - 4:43
  7. "Old Man" (Gentry, John Jarrard, Lisa Palas) - 3:26
  8. "If I Could Just See You Now" (Jeff Cook, Lynde Darrell-Boles) - 3:14
  9. "Fallin' Again
    Fallin' Again
    "Fallin' Again" is a song recorded by the country music group Alabama. It was the third and final single to their 1987 album Just Us. It was a number-one hit in both the United States and Canada.-Single and album versions:...

    " (Greg Fowler, Gentry, Owen) - 3:58 (7:41 on CD)

Alabama

  • Randy Owen: lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Jeff Cook: lead guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "If I Could Just See You Now"
  • Teddy Gentry: bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "Old Man"
  • Mark Herndon: drums, percussion, vocals

Album

Chart (1987) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 55

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

CAN Country
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

1987 "Tar Top" 7 4
"Face to Face" 1 1
1988 "Fallin' Again" 1 1
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