Latest Release
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- 22 JUN 2023
- 2 Songs
- Award-winning artists Honor The Songs of Bill & Gloria Gaither · 2023
- Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Sped + Slowed) - Single · 2023
- Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Sped + Slowed) - Single · 2023
- Where You Lead Me · 2023
- Country Goes Reggae · 2022
- Sing Me Back Home: The Music Of Merle Haggard (Live) · 2020
- Sing Me Back Home: The Music Of Merle Haggard (Live) · 2020
- Warmest Winter · 2020
- Volunteer Jam XX: A Tribute to Charlie Daniels (Live) · 2018
- Volunteer Jam XX: A Tribute to Charlie Daniels (Live) · 2018
Essential Albums
- Before Alabama came along, country was all about solo artists. Albums like this proved how fresh and exciting a self-contained country band could sound. And with crossover pop hits as undeniably catchy as the LP’s title track, it was like country finally had its own Beatles. It didn’t hurt that Alabama were so versatile—they could rip out a rugged, country-rocking cover of Creedence’s swampy “Green River” one moment and deliver a thoughtful social statement like “Changes Comin’ On” the next—without breaking a sweat.
- 1995
Artist Playlists
- The band pay homage to their roots in country and rock.
Compilations
About Alabama
Distant cousins from family farms in Alabama, singer/guitarist Randy Owen and bassist Teddy Gentry were once so poor, they've claimed, that they couldn’t afford outhouses. So, as children, they escaped the drudgery of farm life by learning guitar and singing in church. By 1969, the two, already veterans of numerous ‘60s pop and bluegrass groups, banded with another cousin, multi-instrumentalist Jeff Cook, for a project called Young Country, then Wildcountry. Within eight years, they changed their name to Alabama (at the request of their label) and assembled their signature gleaming group sound. They did it with Eagles-style harmonies, lots of rock guitar, and a will to please fans based partly on never wanting to work on a family farm again. Their 1980 LP, My Home’s In Alabama, launched them, with hits “Why Lady Why” and “Tennessee River” crossing over into pop. The title song declared that whatever happened, they would always be “Southern born and Southern bred”. Those lyrics laid down their good-old-boys template. A great bar band that never got too fancy, they mixed up bluegrass and family harmonies with the occasional screaming guitar and put it all behind songs about home (1982’s “Mountain Music”, 1983’s “Dixieland Delight”, and 1985’s “Christmas in Dixie”). They hung it up in 2004, but then Brad Paisley got them together seven years later to guest on “Old Alabama”, his loving tribute to the band’s classic tunes, and the trio realised they couldn’t stop there. In 2019 they played a 50th-anniversary tour, and though Cook was fighting Parkinson’s disease and didn’t join his cousins on the road, the band have successfully maintained their familial and musical bonds.
- ORIGIN
- Fort Payne, AL, United States
- FORMED
- 1969
- GENRE
- Country