Pride of America (album)


Pride of America is the nineteenth studio album by American country music singer Charley Pride. It was released in 1974 on RCA Records.
The album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Production

The album was recorded at RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. The vocal accompaniment was by the Jordanaires and the Nashville Edition.

Critical reception

In a retrospective article, Rolling Stone included "Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town" on a list of Pride's 10 "essential" songs, writing that "Pride’s delivery perfectly splits the difference between a tender evocation of home and a stark memory of a world he was happy to have left behind."

Production