Untasted Honey

Untasted Honey
Studio album by Kathy Mattea
Released	September 28, 1987 (1987-09-28)
Genre	Country
Length	33:57
Label	Mercury PolyGram
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Kathy Mattea chronology
Walk the Way the Wind Blows (1986) Untasted Honey (1987) Willow in the Wind (1989)
Singles from Untasted Honey
"Goin' Gone" Released: September 1987 "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" Released: March 12, 1988 "Untold Stories" Released: July 9, 1988 "Life as We Knew It" Released: November 12, 1988

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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" (duet with Tim O'Brien)	Paul Overstreet, Don Schlitz	2:55
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 Huskey Jr. – 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

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1987–1988)	Peak position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)	11

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)	18
Chart (1989)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)	43

Release history

Release history and formats for Untasted Honey

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
North America	September 28, 1987	LP CD cassette	PolyGram Mercury Records

References

• Allmusic (see infobox)