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Formats and Editions
1. Five O'Clock 500 - (previously unreleased)
2. Keepin' Up - (previously unreleased)
3. How Do You Fall in Love - (previously unreleased)
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. Closer You Get, The
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 Ba
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
1. Touch Me When We're Dancing
2. You've Got the Touch
3. Face to Face
4. Fallin' Again
5. Song of the South
6. If I Had You
7. High Cotton
8. Southern Star
9. Jukebox in My Mind
10. Forever's as Far as I'll Go
11. Down Home
12. Here We Are
13. Then Again
14. Born Country
15. I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)
16. Once Upon a Lifetime
17. Hometown Honeymoon
18. Reckless
19. Give Me One More Shot
20. She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl
21. In Pictures
22. Sad Lookin' Moon
More Info:
Definitive 2 disc compilation from a group that has sold over 65 million albums worldwide. Includes 42 #1 country hits. CD booklet includes extensive liner notes, detailed track list and rare photos. Digitally remaster from the original master tapes.Reviews:
''The Essential Alabama'' was a compilation album that chronicled the music of the country music band Alabama. Issued as part of BMG International's "The Essential" series, the album was released in June 1998.
As with other albums issued in "The Essential" series, the Alabama volume chronicled the music offered during the peak of the band's phenomenal 1980s success. The liner notes include a biography and detailed information about each of the 16 songs featured on the album.
Unlike their previous "greatest hits" compilations, Alabama's ''The Essential Alabama'' was not strictly a greatest-hits package, a point some reviewers picked up on . As with other volumes in "The Essential" series, the Alabama contained album tracks and songs that had previously been unissued. Four such tracks are present here: "Very Special Love," "As Right Now," "The Fans" and "I Showed Her."
Of the 12 songs that were singles, 10 of those reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard magazine'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts during the 1980s. The two other singles were 1980's "My Home's in Alabama" (peaked at No. 17, featured here in its radio-edit version) and 1987's "Tar Top" (the song that broke Alabama's string of 21-straight No. 1 singles when it peaked at No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' country charts). - Wikipedia
