Alabama

   
Artist: Alabama

   Genre(s): 
Country
   Pop
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Songs of Inspiration

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 15


   
 Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection (cd3)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection (cd2)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection (cd1)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9


   
 Mountain Music

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Alabama Live

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 When It All Goes South

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


   
 Christmas II

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Twentieth Century [ENHANCED CD]

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 My Home's In Alabama

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 Dancin' on the Boulevard

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 In Pictures

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 Alabama - Greatest Hits III

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


   
 Cheap Seats

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


   
 American Pride

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


   
 Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Southern Star

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 13


   
 Roll On

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 Pass It on Down

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


   
 Feels So Right

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 Alabama Christmas

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 Alabama - Greatest Hits

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 40 Hour Week

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10

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Before Alabama, bands were normally relegated to a supporting use in nation music. In the first-class honours degree part of the hundred, bands were democratic with audiences crosswise the land, merely as recordings became available, well-nigh every popular recording creative person was a vocalist, not a group. Alabama was the group that made country bands democratic once more. Emerging in the late '70s, the band had roots in both land and tilt; in fact, many of Alabama's musical concepts, peculiarly the idea of a acting band, owed more than to rock 'n' roll and pop than hardcore area. However, there is no denying that Alabama is a res publica band -- the bandmembers' pop instincts may come from tilt, merely their harmonies, songwriting, and plan of attack ar indebted to country, particularly the Bakersfield sound of Merle Haggard, bluegrass, and the sound of Nashville belt down. A sleek, country-rock sound made the group the most popular area grouping in story, marketing more records than whatsoever other creative person of the '80s and earning stacks of awards.


First cousins Randy Owen (born December 14, 1949; lead vocal, rhythm method of birth control guitar) and Teddy Gentry (born January 22, 1952; vocals, bass) human body the core of Alabama. Owen and Gentry grew up on come apart cotton farms on Lookout Mountain in Alabama, but the pair learned how to play guitar together; the duet too had song dynasty in church together before they were hexad years old. On their own, Gentry and Owen played in a routine of different bands during the '60s, playing land, bluegrass, and pop on different occasions. During heights school, the duette teamed with another cousin-german, Jeff Cook (born August 27, 1949; lead guitar, vocals, keyboards, goldbrick), to pattern Young Country in 1969. Before joining his cousins, Cook had played in a routine of bands and was a stone & roll DJ. Young Country's first-class honours degree gig was at a senior high school endowment contest; performing a Merle Haggard song, the band won first prize -- a misstep to the Grand Ole Opry. However, the group was fairly still as Owen and Cook went to college.


Subsequently Owen and Cook graduated from college, they touched with Gentry to Anniston, AL, with the intention of retention the ring together. Sharing an flat, the band practised at night and performed manual labor during the day. They changed their diagnose to Wildcountry in 1972, adding drummer Bennet Vartanian to the batting order. The undermentioned year, they made the decisiveness to become professional musicians, quitting their jobs and acting a number of bars in the Southeast. During this clip, they began writing their have songs, including "My Home's in Alabama." Vartanian left soon after the isthmus sour professional; after losing little Joe more than drummers, Rick Scott was added to the batting order in 1974.


Wildcountry changed its name to Alabama in 1977, the same year the ring signed a one-record take with GRT. The resulting single, "I Wanna Be With You Tonight," was a minor success, peaking in the Top 80. Nevertheless, the single's public presentation was an indication that Alabama was one of the about popular bands in the Southeast; at the end of the decade, the ring was playing over ccc shows a year. After "I Wanna Be With You Tonight," the group borrowed $4,000 from a Fort Payne bank, exploitation the money to record and press release its possess records, which were sold at shows. When GRT declared bankruptcy a year afterwards the press release of "I Wanna Be With You Tonight," the bandmembers discovered that they were verboten from recording with another label because of a hidden clause in their contract. For deuce geezerhood, Alabama raised money to buy out its contract. In 1979, the group was finally able-bodied to begin recording again. That same year, Scott left the band. Scott was replaced by Mark Herndon, a former rock drummer world Health Organization helped give Alabama its signature tune good.


Afterward in 1979, Alabama self-recorded and released an album, hiring an independent record booster to avail get radio set play for the unmarried "I Wanna Come Over." The isthmus as well sent hundreds of handwritten letters to program directors and DJs crosswise the land. "I Wanna Come Over" gained the attention of MDJ Records, a small mark based in Dallas. MDJ released the individual, and it reached number 33 on the charts. In 1980, MDJ released "My Home's in Alabama," which made it into the Top 20. Based on the single's achiever, Alabama performed at the Country Music New Faces show, where the band was patched by an RCA Records talent scout, wHO signed the group after the usher.


AL released its first RCA individual, "TN River," late in 1980. Produced by Harold Shedd, the sung began a remarkable streak of 21 number one hits (interrupted by the 1982 vacation single "Christmas in Dixie"), which ran until 1987; after one number vII arrive at, the streak resumed for another sestet singles, resulting in a amount of 27 number one singles during the decennium. Taken unequalled, the amount of chart-topping singles is proof of Alabama's popularity, but the band besides south Korean won numerous awards, had septenary multi-platinum albums, and crossed over to the pop charts niner times during the '80s.


In the '90s, their popularity declined more or less, yet they were still having hit singles and gold and pt albums with regularity. Even after their dissolving in 2003, it's unlikely that whatever former state chemical group testament be able to surpass the succeeder of Alabama.