Rage On

Rage On
Studio album by Dan Seals
Released	June 29, 1988
Genre	Country
Length	41:21
Label	Capitol
Producer	Kyle Lehning
Dan Seals chronology
The Best (1987) Rage On (1988) On Arrival (1990)

Rage On is the seventh studio album released by Country Music artist Dan Seals. The Album charted at number 6 on the Top Country Albums chart, his second highest charting album since Won't Be Blue Anymore in 1985. The Singles released were "Addicted", "Big Wheels In The Moonlight", and "They Rage On"; the first two both went to Number One on Hot Country Songs and the title track peaked at number five on the same chart.

Brian Mansfield gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five in his review for Allmusic, saying that the songs were "woven around traditional country themes while rarely resorting to country clichés."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Big Wheels in the Moonlight" (Bob McDill, Dan Seals) - 3:54
2. "They Rage On" (McDill, Seals) - 4:40
3. "Five Generations of Rock County Wilsons" (John Scott Sherrill) - 3:14
4. "Twenty-Four Hour Love" (Mac McAnally, Seals) - 4:07
5. "Factory Town" (Seals) - 3:49
6. "Addicted" (Cheryl Wheeler) - 4:15
7. "A Heartache Just Around the Bend" (Paul Davis, Jennifer Kimball) - 3:45
8. "Maybe I'm Missing You Now" (Blackie Farrell, Kimball) - 3:22
9. "Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice" (K. T. Oslin, William Soden) - 3:45
10. "Long Long Island Nights" (McDill, Seals) - 4:41
11. "Those" (Seals) - 3:14

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[2]

Musicians

• Baillie & the Boys (Kathie Baillie, Michael Bonagura, Alan LeBoeuf) — background vocals
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
• Dennis Burnside – piano, electric piano
• Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Doyle Grisham – steel guitar
• Jim Horn – recorder
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• Shane Keister – piano, keyboards, synthesizer
• Mike Lawler – keyboards, drum machine
• Paul Leim – drums
• Larrie Londin – drums
• Terry McMillan – percussion
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Kenny Mims – electric guitar
• Mark O'Connor – fiddle, mandolin
• Don Potter – acoustic guitar
• Dan Seals – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar
• Joe Stanley – electric guitar
• Billy Joe Walker Jr. – electric guitar
• Jack Williams – bass guitar

Technical

• Joe Bogan – engineer
• Larry Dixon – photography
• Kyle Lehning – producer, engineer
• Keith Odle – engineer
• Kirt Odle – engineer
• Doug Sax – mastering

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1988)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	6
Canadian RPM Country Albums	18

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1988	"Addicted"	1	1
	"Big Wheels in the Moonlight"	1	*
1989	"They Rage On"	5	4

References

1. Mansfield, Brian. "Rage On review". Allmusic. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
2. Rage On (CD insert). Dan Seals. Capitol Records. 1988. 46976.