Untasted Honey

Untasted Honey
Studio album by Kathy Mattea
Released	September 28, 1987
Genre	Country
Length	33:57
Label	Mercury
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Kathy Mattea chronology
Walk the Way the Wind Blows (1986) Untasted Honey (1987) Willow in the Wind (1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	1992

Untasted Honey is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in 1987 on Mercury Records. The album produced Mattea's first Number One hit on the Billboard country charts in its lead-off single "Goin' Gone". Following this song was another Number One hit, "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", then "Untold Stories" and "Life as We Knew It", both of which reached #4. "The Battle Hymn of Love" was later released as a single from Mattea's 1990 album A Collection of Hits. Like Walk the Way the Wind Blows before it, this album includes a cut originally found on Nanci Griffith's 1986 album The Last of the True Believers, this time in the track "Goin' Gone". Untasted Honey was certified gold by the RIAA.

Track listing

1. "Untold Stories" (Tim O'Brien) – 3:05
2. "Life as We Knew It" (Walter Carter, Fred Koller) – 3:20
3. "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" (Gene Nelson, Paul Nelson) – 3:23
4. "The Battle Hymn of Love" (Paul Overstreet, Don Schlitz) – 2:55
   • duet with Tim O'Brien
5. "Late in the Day" (O'Brien) – 4:31
6. "Goin' Gone" (Pat Alger, Bill Dale, Fred Koller) – 4:28
7. "Untasted Honey" (Craig Bickhardt, Barry Alfonso) – 3:26
8. "Like a Hurricane" (Alger, Mark D. Sanders) – 3:31
9. "As Long as I Have a Heart" (Don Henry, Dennis Wilson) – 3:03
10. "Every Love" (Kye Fleming, Janis Ian) – 2:58

Personnel

• Pat Alger – acoustic guitar
• Billy Barnes – design, art direction
• Matthew Barnes – design
• Craig Bickhardt – acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Bruce Bouton – pedal steel guitar
• Tim O'Brien – acoustic guitar, mandolin, background vocals
• Beth Nielsen Chapman – background vocals
• Jerry Douglas – dobro
• Ray Flacke – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar
• Nick Forster – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Roy M. "Junior" Husky – upright bass
• Mike Leech – bass guitar
• Chris Leuzinger – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Deb Mahalanobis – design
• Kenny Malone – drums, percussion
• Kathy Mattea – lead vocals, background vocals
• Mark Miller – engineer, mixing
• Dave Pomeroy – bass guitar
• Denny Purcell – mastering
• Allen Reynolds – producer
• Cindy Reynolds-Wyatt – harp
• David Schaufer – dulcimer
• Milton Sledge – drums, percussion
• John Thompson – background vocals
• Pete Wasner – organ, piano, electric piano
• Buck White – piano
• Bobby Wood – organ, piano
• Bob Wray – bass guitar

Chart performance

Chart (1987)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	11

References

• Allmusic (see infobox)