I can't say I know much of their music. I'm slowly finding more and more of the older stuff though. I can't stand the top 40 country station anymore. I've been listening to the smaller one that plays a lot of the older stuff.

 

You need to listen to more of their stuff. They were the supergroup of country music back in the day. Every superstar country group nowadays owes their road to success to Alabama. They were the "rock stars" of country music that paved the way for groups that you see now.

I'm not trying to be arrogant, I'm just trying to educate you on country music groups since you are a young guy that wasn't around. All things aside, if it weren't for Alabama breaking through the boundaries of music into different genres, you wouldn't have groups like TBP, Little Big Town, ETC today, They paved the way for country music coming into the mainstream. Their music crossed boundaries into different genres. You need to listen to more of their music.

You might not get how important it was because you're young and you grew up on a different time, but trust me, their music made a huge impact on the industry. It crossed lines that had never before been crossed.

 

I will definitely check them out sometime. I know how they are, I just wasn't around when they were big like you said.

Right now I'm about to pass out.

 

You need to look into them, listen to their songs, and read up about them. I know you love country music, and they laid the groundwork for modern country music to become what it has. Country wouldn't be what it is without them. They brought country music into the mainstream, the groups you love would have never happened without what they did. Ask any of them. Next time you see TBP backstage, ask them about Alabama and I guarantee they will cite them as an inspiration.

Little Big Town doing a cover of an Alabama song (a song I loved since I was a young man, especially since they sing about places where I grew up)

 

Pandora, playing some good ****e too!

 

Rose tattoo - dkm

 

Trivium - just put the ipod on shuffle through all their albums and let it rip! They just have some awesome music for a metal band!

 

Long live metal!


That said I've been stuck on the bluesy tracks from jack white and the white stripes in general lately.

Hey on the Alabama thing they were the cats *** back then much like the Statler Brothers and Kenny Rogers were before them. I still have some Statlers in my library lol.

 

Hello ladies.





I'd go out on a limb and say I've got the most diverse collection of music of anyone in this entire thread. Anyone wish to challenge that?

 

I may not be able to top your list, but i bet i can at least give it a run for its money.

 

I'm staying out of this.

 

I don't know brother, look at the spectrum of genres, styles, and sounds I listen to.

 

I have a pretty wide range of music taste as well ya know.

 

Such a tragic loss for the country music genre. I loved his music.

 

Dammit Nathan.

 

Listening to my wife grump.

 

Hey Scott, have you ever listened to these live albums? "An Evening With the Allman Brothers" first and second set? They are fantastic for the later stuff ('91 or so IIRC). It was right after Warren joined up with them. These are two of my favorites (but I like them all, both albums).






Warren is just wailing on that thing, and Dickey is at his best since the early days. Good stuff. And Gregg is in full form.

 

Only looked through the first 30-40 pages and its amazing how much we are alike in music.


Funny how everyone thinks people in the South are so one dimensional and all a bunch of racists, lol. ****ing idiots.

 

I love this song so much.

 

Me too! Live in general is an amazing group.