Mountains is the eighth studio album released by American country music group Lonestar

Lonestar

Lonestar is an American country music group consisting of Richie McDonald , Michael Britt , Keech Rainwater , Dean Sams , and Michael Hill . McDonald left the band in November 2007 for a solo career before returning in 2011...

. Its final album for BNA Records

BNA Records

BNA Records, formerly known as BNA Entertainment, is a label group that shares ties with Arista Nashville and RCA Nashville from parent company Sony Music Nashville, which itself is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, BNA features country music acts on its roster...

, it produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs

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...

 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

Richie McDonald

Richard Vance "Richie" McDonald is an American country music artist. From 1992 until his departure in 2007, he was the lead singer of the group Lonestar, which recorded seven studio albums on BNA Records during his tenure as lead vocalist. McDonald co-wrote several of the band's singles, and sang...

 on lead vocals.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine is a senior editor for Allmusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for Allmusic, as well as a freelance writer, occasionally contributing liner notes. He is also frontman and guitarist for the Ann Arbor-based band Who Dat?Erlewine is the nephew...

 of Allmusic gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that "the group takes fewer risks than ever" on it.

Track listing

1. "Mountains
   Mountains (Lonestar song)
   "Mountains" is the title of a song recorded by American country music band Lonestar. It was released in June 2006 as the lead-off single to their 2006 album of the same name. The song is the band's final Top Ten hit, reaching a peak of #10 on the U.S...
   
   " (Richie McDonald
   Richie McDonald
   Richard Vance "Richie" McDonald is an American country music artist. From 1992 until his departure in 2007, he was the lead singer of the group Lonestar, which recorded seven studio albums on BNA Records during his tenure as lead vocalist. McDonald co-wrote several of the band's singles, and sang...
   
   , Larry Boone
   Larry Boone
   Larry Eugene Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. His highest-charting single, "Don't Give Candy to a Stranger", reached #10 in 1988...
   
   , Paul Nelson) – 3:56
2. "Nothing to Prove" (Jim Collins
   Jim Collins (singer)
   Jim Collins is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1985 and 1998, Collins released three studio albums. He also charted seven singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
   
   , Wendell Mobley) – 3:56
3. "Long Lost Smile" (Marc Beeson, Neil Thrasher
   Neil Thrasher
   Joe Neil Thrasher, Jr. is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1995 and 1997, he and Kelly Shiver comprised the duo Thrasher Shiver, which recorded a studio album for Asylum Records in 1996 and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts in early 1997...
   
   ) – 3:55
4. "Thought It Was You" (Collins, Craig Wiseman
   Craig Wiseman
   Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter. Active since the late 1980s as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, and several other acts....
   
   ) – 3:42
5. "Hey God" (McDonald, Tommy Lee James
   Tommy Lee James
   Tommy Lee James is an American country music songwriter and record producer. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, he is originally from Roanoke, Virginia. He graduated from Northside High School then attended Radford University where he studied voice...
   
   ) – 3:46
6. "I Wanna Do It for You" (Dean Sams, Regie Hamm
   Regie Hamm
   Regie Hamm is an American singer-songwriter. He has multiple credits as a songwriter, producer, musician , and artist.-Early and personal life:...
   
   , Glen Mitchell) – 4:20
7. "Cowboy Girl" (Brett James
   Brett James
   Brett James Cornelius is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Signed to Career Records as a solo artist in 1995, James charted three singles and released a self-titled debut album that year...
   
   , Bill Luther) – 3:32
8. "What She Had To" (John Edwards, Garrett Parris) – 3:49
9. "One of those Nights" (Jason Sellers
   Jason Sellers
   Jason Sellers is an American country music artist. After several years of touring the United States in his family's band, Sellers joined the road band of Ricky Skaggs. By 1997, he was signed to a recording contract with BNA Records, for whom he recorded two studio albums: 1997's I'm Your Man and...
   
   , Tom Shapiro
   Tom Shapiro
   Tom Shapiro is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters...
   
   ) – 4:13
10. "Careful Where You Kiss Me" (Jeff Bates
    Jeff Bates
    Jeffery Wayne "Jeff" Bates is an American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records in 2003, Bates released his debut album Rainbow Man that year. A second album, Leave the Light On, was released in 2005 on RCA. He left RCA in 2006. This album was followed by Jeff Bates in 2008 on the...
    
    , Mobley, Thrasher) – 3:20
11. "Always in the Band" (McDonald, Ron Harbin, Jerry Vandiver) – 4:02

Chart performance

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