Owen: We are so thankful that we have had 43 No. What’s your set list like these days? I’d imagine you can’t fit all of your big hits into a set, so how do you decide what songs make it into the show? This tour will be the best of the best Alabama live. Owen: We are not in our 20s and 30s anymore, but we have always given 200 percent at our live shows and want to deliver what the fans want to hear. Gentry: From what the promoters have told us, as of today 95 percent of the venues we are playing are at or are going to be at 100 percent capacity when we play.ĭo you see or feel much of a difference in the kind of show you put on these days compared to during the ‘80s? Has what you want to achieve each night on stage changed at all? And we wrote a lot of songs in the past 12 months.Īre you able now to play shows with full capacity in these markets or are there crowd size limits for any of the venues that are on the current tour routing? Randy Owen and Gentry: Both of us have working cattle farms and Jeff has a recording studio, so that kept us all busy. What did the three of you do with the extra free time during the pandemic? Teddy Gentry: No, we were not, but we did do a live stream concert from Nashville for Camping World/Gander MT that had over 1.2 million viewers on New Year’s Eve. Were you able to play any live shows in any form during the pandemic?
Here’s what Owen and Gentry had to say about 50-plus years of Alabama: Owen and Gentry agreed to answer some questions via e-mail. And as the current string of arena concerts shows, Alabama remains a major live draw. The group hasn’t had any top 10 hit singles in this second chapter, but after being forced off the road for more than a year by the pandemic, Alabama is back on tour, playaing Johnny Mercer Theatre on Dec. A first post-reunion tour followed in 2013 and Alabama released their first new album in 14 years, “Southern Drawl,” in 2015. But in 2010, Owen, Gentry and Cook began working together again – minus Herndon, who was never an official band member. 1 hits – a record for consecutive chart-topping songs that is unlikely to be broken.Įventually, the nearly non-stop grind of touring and recording took a toll, and the group, which beginning in 1979 also included drummer Mark Herndon, broke up in 2004. Their music brought scores of new fans into country, and at their peak during the 1980s, these natives of Fort Payne, Alabama reeled off 21 straight No. Formed in 1969, Alabama was the first act to incorporate a rock influence into country, and the group’s sound was nothing short of revolutionary at the time. 1 country single, the influence of this trio – singer/guitarist Randy Owen, bassist Teddy Gentry and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Cook – continues to reverberate through today’s country scene. Although it’s been more than 25 years since Alabama’s last No.
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