The Essential Alabama [2005]

by Alabama

Overview

RCA/Legacy's 2005 double-disc release Essential Alabama should not be confused with RCA's 1998 single-disc release The Essential Alabama, which may have had the same title but boasted a different track listing. However, the 2005 Essential Alabama should be confused with the 1998 double-disc set For the Record: 41 Number One Hits, since it has the same track listing as that album. At least the back cover of Essential acknowledges that it was "formerly available" as For the Record, so most fans will likely not be duped into buying the same album a second time. For the rest of us, Essential Alabama keeps everything good about For the Record: 41 Number One Hits and eliminates its one flaw: the misleading subtitle that claimed all of the songs on the album hit number one, which was not true (it also implied that the album had 41 songs when it really had 44). Which means that Essential Alabama is now the definitive Alabama collection, containing every one of their big hits -- including such contemporary classics as "Tennessee River," "Mountain Music," "The Closer You Get," "Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')," "Jukebox on My Mind," and "Down Home" -- in one concise, entertaining package. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	05/17/2005
Label:	Bmg Heritage / Rca
UPC:	0828766863529
Rank:	43774

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Five O'Clock 500
2. Keepin' Up
3. How Do You Fall in Love
4. Tennessee River
5. Why Lady Why
6. Old Flame
7. Feels So Right
8. Love in the First Degree
9. Mountain Music
10. Take Me Down
11. Close Enough to Perfect
12. Dixieland Delight
13. The Closer You Get
14. Lady Down on Love
15. Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)
16. When We Make Love
17. If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)
18. (There's A) Fire in the Night
19. There's No Way
20. Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')
21. Can't Keep a Good Man Down
22. She and I

Disc 2

23. Touch Me When We're Dancing
24. You've Got the Touch
25. Face to Face
26. Fallin' Again
27. Song of the South
28. If I Had You
29. High Cotton
30. Southern Star
31. Jukebox in My Mind
32. Forever's as Far as I'll Go
33. Down Home
34. Here We Are
35. Then Again
36. Born Country
37. I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)
38. Once Upon a Lifetime
39. Hometown Honeymoon
40. Reckless
41. Give Me One More Shot
42. She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl
43. In Pictures
44. Sad Lookin' Moon

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Alabama   Primary Artist
*NSYNC   Primary Artist
K.T. Oslin   Primary Artist
Brent Mason   Gut String Guitar,Guitar (Electric),Guitar (12 String Electric)
Theodore Gentry   Guitar (Bass),Bass,Vocals
Jeff Cook   Vocals,Guitar,Fiddle
Don Cook   Vocals
Steve Dorff   Conductor
Randy Owen   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Larry Franklin   Fiddle
Steve Nathan   Keyboards
John Barlow Jarvis   Piano,Organ (Hammond)
Mark Herndon   Drums,Percussion
Mark Casstevens   Guitar (Acoustic)
Lonnie Wilson   Drums,Percussion

Technical Credits

Emory Gordy Jr.   Audio Production,Producer
Garth Fundis   Audio Production,Producer
Larry Michael Lee   Audio Production,Producer,Associate Producer
Barry Beckett   Audio Production,Producer
Josh Leo   Audio Production,Composer,Producer
Larry MacBride   Audio Production,Producer
Harold Shedd   Audio Production,Producer
Dean Dixon   Photography
Evan Rogers   Composer
Don Cook   Producer
Greg Fowler   Composer
Jeff Silbar   Composer
John Kunz   Digital Editing
John Schweers   Composer
Scott Anders   Composer
Randy VanWarmer   Composer
Michael Clark   Composer,Composer
Mike Reid   Composer
Tim DuBois   Composer
Alabama   Producer
Dan Mitchell   Composer
J.L. Wallace   Composer
Dave Loggins   Composer
Ed Turner   Technical Assistance
Jeff Stevens   Composer
Senor McGuire   Photography
The Music Team   String Contractor
Joe Doyle   Composer
Bill Brunt   Design,Art Direction
Kenneth Bell   Composer
Blake Morgan   Design
William Soule Robinson   Composer
Don Schlitz   Composer
Kimberly Dumas   Design
Greg Gorman   Photography
Susan Eaddy   Art Direction
Rick Scott   Composer
Patty Zimmitti   String Contractor
Troy Seals   Composer
Theodore Gentry   Composer,Group Member
Steve Dorff   Composer,String Arrangements
Roger Murrah   Composer
Rick Carnes   Composer
Randy Owen   Composer,Group Member
Jim Photoglo   Composer
Mentor Williams   Composer
Mike Bradley   Mixing,Engineer
Murray Kellum   Composer
Datz Pyle, Debbi   String Contractor
Peter Nash   Cover Photo,Photography
Hank Williams   Mastering
Charlie Paakkari   Assistant Engineer
Steve Dean   Composer
Beth Nielsen Chapman   Composer
Bobby Boyd   Composer
Bob Corbin   Composer
Bob McDill   Composer
Kerry Chater   Composer
John Jarvis   Composer
J.P. Pennington   Composer
Jim Hunt   Composer
Carl Sturken   Composer
Carl Chambers   Composer
Becky Hobbs   Composer
Don Goodman   Composer
Donny Lowery   Composer
Frank J. Myers   Composer
Mac McAnally   Composer
Janis Carnes   Composer
Vince Gill   Composer
John Jarrard   Composer
Mark Herndon   Group Member
Robert Jason   Composer
Lisa Silver   Composer
Mark Gray   Composer
Mark Capps   Engineer,Assistant
Rich Alves   Composer
Ron Rogers   Composer
Lisa Palas   Composer
Rick Bowles   Composer
Danny Bear Mayo   Composer
Dave Gibson   Composer
Byron Hill   Composer
Glenn Meadows   Mastering
William Robinson   Composer
Gary Baker   Composer
Terry Skinner   Composer