The Church on Cumberland Road

"The Church on Cumberland Road"
Single by Shenandoah
from the album The Road Not Taken
B-side"She Doesn't Cry Anymore"
ReleasedJanuary 1989
Recorded1988
GenreCountry
Length2:58
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Shenandoah singles chronology
"Mama Knows"
(1988)
"The Church on Cumberland Road"
(1989)
"Sunday in the South"
(1989)

"The Church on Cumberland Road" is a song written by Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill and Dennis Robbins, and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah. It was released in January 1989 as the second single from their album The Road Not Taken. It was their first number-one hit in both the United States[1] and Canada. Robbins himself originally recorded the song and it served as the B-side to his 1987 MCA single "Two Of A Kind (Workin’ On A Full House)" which would later become a No. 1 country hit for Garth Brooks in 1991.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 311.