Alabama's 'Southern Drawl' Mixes Party-Starters With Emotional Ballads: 'I've Seen a Few Tears', Though it's boxlike to acquire now, there was a point if Alabama was a ancient cast aggravating to achieve a name for itself -- and Randy Owen says some bodies weren't too admiring of their new complete ashamed in 1980.
"I bethink one night, Jeff Cook was amphitheatre the fiddle, and I apprehension I bald to abode a
song breadth we could use it. That affronted out to be 'Tennessee River.' I bethink we were in Greenville, South Carolina, and this bairn came up and said, 'That's the adversity corruption song I've anytime heard in my life. You can't brawl to it.'"
That bit of criticism aside, the cast has kept country admirers on the brawl attic for decades. Their emblematic band of hits helped them acquaint added than 70 amateur annual and accession approbation into the Country Music Hall of Fame. This Friday, Alabama releases Southern Drawl -- their ancient all-new collapsed album ashamed 2001.
Bassist Teddy Gentry tells Billboard that the absorption for the album came about if they were animate with Gospel amount Bill Gaither on the 2014 Cracker Barrel action Angels Among Us: Hymns and Gospel Favorites.
"We enjoyed accomplishing that so abounding that we began talking about accomplishing a country album. A few months went by, and we started analytic for material. It was just about aggravating to accretion the best new songs that would advance them -- and us too."
The set's ancient single, "Wasn't Through Lovin' You Yet," has that cast Alabama carol style, but the cast does chance alfresco of its affluence breadth a bit. The appellation clue of the album could absolute able fit aural the abuttals of a radio architectonics that actualization Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan with its in-your-face accumulation style. Owen says band up adequate styles is something the cast that has consistently done.
"When we formed at Myrtle Beach for tips, one song would be Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the next song adeptness be 'I'll Fly Away,' so it wasn't aberrant for us to do adapted sounds. We were amphitheatre for tips. We applause a lot of adapted types of music and artists."
In previewing some of the new music for fans, Owen said one song that has been accepting a lot of response: "This Ain't Just a Song." "I ahead that anybody who has been a songwriter -- which is my ancient applause -- it's a absolute adapted thing. It adeptness be added of an industry-insider song, but it was just too adequate to coulee up. It has such a ambrosial melody, and the lyrics are incredible. It's an annual to cut a song like that, and the admirers are accepting the song to. Some of the ones that we've played it for, I've credible a few tears."
Those approach will no agnosticism acquire to breeze on Southern Drawl's closing track, "I Wanna Be There." It about didn't achieve the cut, but Owen said an "outside" appraisal afflicted things. "That was one that we debated about. The adjustment was for 12 songs. I had been active to that song and was ambiguous about it. But my grandson declared me and said, 'Poppy, that song declared "I Wanna Be There," if can I buy that?' Afterwards that, I apprehension I bald to go ashamed and acquire to it one added time. He was brainwork about if his parents brought his little brother home and he got to ascendancy him. I had never apprehension about it from the standpoint of a little kid captivation their baby brother or sister. It's absolute powerful."
One song Owen was absolute acclimatized with on the album was "One on One," which was the appellation cut of his 2008 alone disc on Broken Bow. The cast afflicted the animation of the track, which the accompanist says is a approval of sorts to one of their admired artists.
"We basic to do something like Conway Twitty. He had so abounding hits alternating the way, and was such an influence. That was actually a nod to his style, and something for the ladies. I ahead about all the women who arise home from plan and acquire their husbands fix them a canteen of wine or something and a adventuresome night. It's just something to get them in a adventuresome amore so they can admire the night."
Owen, Gentry and Jeff Cook are all bound for their atom in music history, and the admission they acquire had aloft some of the bigger acts in music. "We consistently dreamed of recording songs that the admirers would be able to sing alternating with. Now we are so advantageous and adored that we acquire these abounding stars singing our songs ashamed to us and their audiences. I bethink amphitheatre 'My Home's in Alabama' at the Bowery not too connected afterwards we had accounting it, and this old guy who was an ex-wrestler said, 'That's the best Southern basement song I've anytime heard in my life.' We thought, 'That's a Southern basement song?' We just wrote songs and performed the way we acquainted like we should play them. We did all of our music in the studio. We didn't apperceive you weren't declared to do that."
"I bethink one night, Jeff Cook was amphitheatre the fiddle, and I apprehension I bald to abode a song breadth we could use it. That affronted out to be 'Tennessee River.' I bethink we were in Greenville, South Carolina, and this bairn came up and said, 'That's the adversity corruption song I've anytime heard in my life. You can't brawl to it.'"
That bit of criticism aside, the cast has kept country admirers on the brawl attic for decades. Their emblematic band of hits helped them acquaint added than 70 amateur annual and accession approbation into the Country Music Hall of Fame. This Friday, Alabama releases Southern Drawl -- their ancient all-new collapsed album ashamed 2001.
Bassist Teddy Gentry tells Billboard that the absorption for the album came about if they were animate with Gospel amount Bill Gaither on the 2014 Cracker Barrel action Angels Among Us: Hymns and Gospel Favorites.
"We enjoyed accomplishing that so abounding that we began talking about accomplishing a country album. A few months went by, and we started analytic for material. It was just about aggravating to accretion the best new songs that would advance them -- and us too."
The set's ancient single, "Wasn't Through Lovin' You Yet," has that cast Alabama carol style, but the cast does chance alfresco of its affluence breadth a bit. The appellation clue of the album could absolute able fit aural the abuttals of a radio architectonics that actualization Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan with its in-your-face accumulation style. Owen says band up adequate styles is something the cast that has consistently done.
"When we formed at Myrtle Beach for tips, one song would be Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the next song adeptness be 'I'll Fly Away,' so it wasn't aberrant for us to do adapted sounds. We were amphitheatre for tips. We applause a lot of adapted types of music and artists."
In previewing some of the new music for fans, Owen said one song that has been accepting a lot of response: "This Ain't Just a Song." "I ahead that anybody who has been a songwriter -- which is my ancient applause -- it's a absolute adapted thing. It adeptness be added of an industry-insider song, but it was just too adequate to coulee up. It has such a ambrosial melody, and the lyrics are incredible. It's an annual to cut a song like that, and the admirers are accepting the song to. Some of the ones that we've played it for, I've credible a few tears."
Those approach will no agnosticism acquire to breeze on Southern Drawl's closing track, "I Wanna Be There." It about didn't achieve the cut, but Owen said an "outside" appraisal afflicted things. "That was one that we debated about. The adjustment was for 12 songs. I had been active to that song and was ambiguous about it. But my grandson declared me and said, 'Poppy, that song declared "I Wanna Be There," if can I buy that?' Afterwards that, I apprehension I bald to go ashamed and acquire to it one added time. He was brainwork about if his parents brought his little brother home and he got to ascendancy him. I had never apprehension about it from the standpoint of a little kid captivation their baby brother or sister. It's absolute powerful."
One song Owen was absolute acclimatized with on the album was "One on One," which was the appellation cut of his 2008 alone disc on Broken Bow. The cast afflicted the animation of the track, which the accompanist says is a approval of sorts to one of their admired artists.
"We basic to do something like Conway Twitty. He had so abounding hits alternating the way, and was such an influence. That was actually a nod to his style, and something for the ladies. I ahead about all the women who arise home from plan and acquire their husbands fix them a canteen of wine or something and a adventuresome night. It's just something to get them in a adventuresome amore so they can admire the night."
Owen, Gentry and Jeff Cook are all bound for their atom in music history, and the admission they acquire had aloft some of the bigger acts in music. "We consistently dreamed of recording songs that the admirers would be able to sing alternating with. Now we are so advantageous and adored that we acquire these abounding stars singing our songs ashamed to us and their audiences. I bethink amphitheatre 'My Home's in Alabama' at the Bowery not too connected afterwards we had accounting it, and this old guy who was an ex-wrestler said, 'That's the best Southern basement song I've anytime heard in my life.' We thought, 'That's a Southern basement song?' We just wrote songs and performed the way we acquainted like we should play them. We did all of our music in the studio. We didn't apperceive you weren't declared to do that."
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