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beginning of the Atlanta Rhythm Section can be traced back to 1970. It was then that a local recording studio was opened, Studio One, and the remnants of two groups (the Candymen and the Classics Four) became the studio's house band. One of the facility's head figures, Buddy Buie, soon began assembling the session band, which comprised singer Rodney Justo, guitarist Barry Bailey, bassist Paul Goddard, keyboardist Dean Daughtry, and drummer Robert Nix. After playing on several artists' recordings, it was decided to take the band a step further and make the group of players a real band, leading to the formation of the Atlanta Rhythm Section.

Buie soon became an invisible fifth member of the fledgling band; he served as their manager and producer, in addition to providing a major hand in the songwriting department. Finding time between sessions to record their own original material (which was initially entirely instrumental), an early demo wound up landing the band a record deal. The group's first few albums failed to generate much chart action (1972's Atlanta Rhythm Section, 1973's Back Up Against the Wall, 1974's Third Annual Pipe Dream, 1975's Dog Days, and 1976's Red Tape), but it was during this time that Justo was replaced with newcomer Ronnie Hammond, which would eventually pay dividends for the group. Although they had gained quite a bit of radio airplay down south, their record company began to put pressure on the quintet to deliver a single that would break them nationally. The demand worked -- the Atlanta Rhythm Section scored a Top Ten single, "So Into You," on their next release, 1976's A Rock and Roll Alternative, which was the group's first album to reach gold certification.

But this wouldn't be the group's commercial peak, as they scored the highest-charting album of their career in 1978, the Top Ten Champagne Jam, which spawned two hit singles -- "I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight" and "Imaginary Lover." To keep up their high profile, the Atlanta Rhythm Section soon became one of the hardest touring bands of the entire Southern rock genre (including a performance at the White House for President Jimmy Carter). But the group's commercial success would be fleeting -- it appeared that as soon as mainstream rock fans embraced the Atlanta Rhythm Section, they just as quickly forgot about them. Each subsequent album -- 1979's Underdog and live set Are You Ready, 1980's The Boys from Doraville, and 1981's Quinella -- sold less than the previous one, resulting in the band's split shortly thereafter.

In the wake of their split, the Atlanta Rhythm Section reunited sporadically for tours (although only a few original members were present), and issued their first all-new studio album in more than a decade in 1999, Eufaula. Additionally, some of country-rock's biggest names went on to record Atlanta Rhythm Section covers -- Travis Tritt, Wynonna Judd, and Charlie Daniels, among others. Guitarist Barry Bailey died on March 12, 2022 in Atlanta after struggling for several years with multiple sclerosis; he was 73.

  by Greg Prato, AllMusic.com
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LINKSYEAR TITLE
Atlanta Rhythm Section1972 Atlanta Rhythm Section
Back Up Against The Wall 1973Back Up Against The Wall
Third Annual Pipe Dream1974Third Annual Pipe Dream
Dog Days1975Dog Days
Red Tape1976Red Tape
A Rock And Roll Alternative1976A Rock And Roll Alternative
Champagne Jam1978Champagne Jam
Are You Ready!1979Are You Ready!
Underdog1979Underdog
The Boys From Doraville1980The Boys From Doraville
Quinella1981Quinella
Retro  Rock 1982Retro Rock
Truth In A Structured Form1989Truth In A Structured Form
Partly Plugged1997Partly Plugged
Eufaula1999Eufaula
Live At The Savoy, New York October 27, 19812000Live At The Savoy, New York October 27, 1981
Champagne Jam Live2007Champagne Jam Live
Sleep With One Eye Open2010Sleep With One Eye Open
With All Due Respect2011With All Due Respect


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1972 Atlanta Rhythm Section

01. Love Me Just A Little (Sometime)
02. Baby No Lie
03. All In Your Mind
04. Earnestine
05. Forty Days And Forty Nights
06. Another Man's Woman (It's So Hard)
07. Days Of Our Lives
08. Yours And Mine
09. Can't Stand It No More
10. One More Problem

1973 Back Up Against The Wall

01. Wrong
02. Cold Turkey, Tenn.
03. Will I Live On ?
04. A Livin‘ Lovin‘ Wreck
05. Superman
06. What You Gonna Do About It ?
07. Conversation
08. Redneck
09. Make Me Believe It
10. Back Up Against The Wall
11. It Must Be Love

1974 Third Annual Pipe Dream

01. Doraville
02. Jesus Hearted People
03. Close The Door
04. Blues In Maude's Flat
05. Join The Race
06. Angel (What In The World's Come Over Us)
07. Get Your Head Out Of Your Heart
08. The War Is Over
09. Help Yourself
10. Who You Gonna Run To

1975 Dog Days

01. Crazy
02. Boogie Smoogie
03. Cuban Crisis
04. It Just Ain't Your Moon
05. Dog Days
06. Bless My Soul (Instrumental)
07. Silent Treatment
08. All Night Rain

1976 Red Tape

01. Jukin
02. Mixed Emotions
03. Shanghied
04. Police! Police!
05. Beautiful Dreamer
06. Oh What A Feeling
07. Free Spirit
08. Another Man's Woman

1976 A Rock And Roll Alternative

01. Sky High
02. Hitch Hikers' Hero
03. Don't Miss The Message
04. Georgia Rhythm
05. So In To You
06. Outside Woman Blues
07. Everybody Gotta Go
08. Neon Nites

1978 Champagne Jam

01. Large Time
02. I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
03. Normal Love
04. Champagne Jam
05. Imaginary Lover
06. The Ballad Of Lois Malone
07. The Great Escape
08. Evileen

1979 Are You Ready!

01. Prelude: Tara's Theme
02. Sky High
03. Champagne Jam
04. I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
05. Large Time
06. Back Up Against The Wall
07. Angel (What In The World's Come Over Us)
08. Conversation
09. Imaginary Lover
10. Doraville
11. Another Man's Woman
12. Georgia Rhythm
13. So Into You
14. Long Tall Sally

1979 Underdog

01. Do It Or Die
02. Born Ready
03. I Hate The Blues
04. Let's Go Get Stoned
05. Indigo Passion
06. While Time Is Left
07. It's Only Music
08. Spooky
09. My Song

1980 The Boys From Doraville

01. Cocaine Charlie
02. Next Year's Rock & Roll
03. I Ain't Much
04. Putting My Faith In Love
05. Rough At The Edges
06. Silver Eagle
07. Pedestal
08. Try My Love
09. Strictly R & R

1981 Quinella

01. Homesick
02. Quinella
03. Alien
04. Higher
05. You're So Strong
06. Outlaw Music
07. Pretty Girl
08. Southern Exposure
09. Going To Shangri-la

1982 Retro Rock

01. Champagne Jam
02. Sky High
03. Spooky
04. Angel
05. Alien
06. Junkin'
07. Mixed Emotion
08. So Into You/Imaginery Lover

1989 Truth In A Structured Form

01. Awesome Love
02. Listen To The Wind
03. I Want You Here With Me
04. Every Little Bit Hurts
05. What Happened To Us
06. Neon Street
07. One Way Town
08. I'm Not The Only One
09. I'm Going Back
10. How Much Love Is Enough
11. Don't Get Me Started

1997 Partly Plugged

01. Voodoo
02. She Knows All My Tricks
03. Don't Want To Grow Old Alone
04. Child Of The Video Age
05. Alien
06. So Into You
07. Imaginary Lover
08. I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
09. Angel
10. Do It Or Die

1999 Eufaula

01. I'm Not The Only One
02. Who You Gonna Run To
03. Dreamy Alabama
04. Nothing Is As Bad As It Seems
05. When
06. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
07. Fine Day (The Day You Come Back To Me)
08. What Happened To Us
09. Unique
10. How Can You Do This?
11. What's Up Wid Dat?

2000 Live At The Savoy, New York October 27, 1981

01. Champagne Jam
02. I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
03. Homesick
04. Alien
05. Large Time
06. Spooky
07. Higher
08. Imaginary Lover
09. So Into You
10. Long Tall Sally

2007 Champagne Jam Live

01. Back Up Against The Wall
02. Champagne Jam
03. Alien
04. Doraville
05. Conversation
06. Large Time
07. I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
08. So Into You
09. Spooky
10. The Ballad Of Curtis Malone
11. Imaginary Lover
12. Homesick

2010 Sleep With One Eye Open

01. Sleep With One Eye Open
02. High Time
03. Longing For A Feeling
04. Long Distance Love
05. Stone Cold Hit
06. Two Note Boogie
07. Bad Situation
08. Wine With Dinner

2011 With All Due Respect

01. Sleep With One Eye Open
02. Bad Case Of Lovin' You
03. Midnight Rider
04. Hey Nineteen
05. Conversation
06. Tuesday's Gone
07. Rock Bottom
08. So Into You
09. Spooky
10. Champagne Jam
11. I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
12. Imaginary Lover


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