Alabama - Essential
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Artist: AlabamaBrand: RCA
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Music Label: RCA
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Free Music Review: An outstanding compilation
Hit: 5 Stars
Please note that this is a straight re-issue of a previous compilation (For the record - 41 number one hits) with a different title and packaging.
41 number one hits (and they've had a 42nd since then) on the American country charts is an impressive record by any standards. They've also had a lot of other hits which came close. One of my favorite Alabama songs, Pass it on down, peaked at number two, therefore didn't make this collection. Their debut single, My home's in Alabama, only peaked at number 16 and also misses out. I'm not complaining really, but it would be nice to see another compilation - perhaps it could be called Not the number one hits (it would contain a lot of quality songs, and would be better than most Greatest hits collections).
What you get here is three songs recorded especially for this album, one of which made number one when eventually released as singles, together with all those 41 hits.
Alabama were always the champions of the blue collar workers, most clearly illustrated on Forty hour week, in which they pay tribute to all those who keep America going. It's a great song, but there are several others I like even better. One of my favorites, In pictures, is a cover of a song first recorded by Linda Davis. It is about being so busy working that you don't see much of your family except in pictures. Tennessee River, another of my favorites, was Alabama's first number one. Hank Williams Junior did a great cover of it for his Rowdy album, which is one of his best albums. My favorites also include Old flame, Feels so right, Mountain music, Song of the south and Hometown honeymoon - but most of the other songs are not far behind.
Alabama wrote nearly all their own material, but they did occasionally record covers. Apart from In pictures, the only one to qualify for this collection is Touch me when we're dancing, previously recorded by the Carpenters. This is a wonderful collection that may not appeal to the critics, but the fans love it, and it's not difficult to see why.
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Essential Alabama Alabama Label: RCA Release Date: 5/17/2005 Disc 1 1 Five O'Clock 500 [#] - 3:38 2 Keepin' Up [#] - 3:06 3 How Do You Fall in Love [#] - 3:02 4 Tennessee River - 3:02 5 Why Lady Why - 3:09 6 Old Flame - 3:12 7 Feels So Right - 3:36 8 Love in the First Degree - 3:19 9 Mountain Music - 3:38 10 Take Me Down - 3:43 11 Close Enough to Perfect - 3:33 12 Dixieland Delight - 3:57 13 The Closer You Get - 3:35 14 Lady Down on Love - 3:58 15 Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) - 3:44 16 When We Make Love - 3:37 17 If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) - 3:22 18 (There's A) Fire in the Night - 3:58 19 There's No Way - 4:12 20 Forty Hour Week (For a Livin') - 3:21 21 Can't Keep a Good Man Down - 3:39 22 She and I - 3:36 Disc 2 1 Touch Me When We're Dancing - 3:43 2 You've Got the Touch - 4:15 3 Face to Face - 3:01 4 Fallin' Again - 3:59 5 Song of the South - 3:11 6 If I Had You - 3:34 7 High Cotton - 3:00 8 Southern Star - 3:08 9 Jukebox in My Mind - 3:37 10 Forever's as Far as I'll Go - 3:34 11 Down Home - 3:27 12 Here We Are - 2:52 13 Then Again - 3:44 14 Born Country - 3:17 15 I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why) - 2:49 16 Once Upon a Lifetime - 4:14 17 Hometown Honeymoon - 3:17 18 Reckless - 3:19 19 Give Me One More Shot - 3:30 20 She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl - 2:53 21 In Pictures - 3:31 22 Sad Lookin' Moon - 3:35Country Music CDs
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