Track Listing 1. When It All Goes South 2. Woman He Loves, The 3. Clear Across America Tonight 4. Will You Marry Me - (with Jann Arden) 5. I Can't Hide My Heart 6. I Can't Love You Any Less 7. Reinvent the Wheel 8. I Write a Little 9. Down This Road 10. Love Remains - (with Christopher Cross) 11. Start Living 12. Simple as That 13. You Only Paint the Picture Once 14. Wonderful Waste of Time 15. Right Where I Am
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Christopher Cross, Jann Arden | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Alabama: Jeff Cook (vocals, guitar, fiddle); Randy Owen (vocals, guitar); Teddy Gentry (vocals, bass); Mark Herndon (drums, percussion). Additional personnel includes: Christopher Cross, Jann Arden (vocals); Larry Byrom, Josh Leo, Biff Watson (acoustic & electric guitars); Mark Casstevens, Mac McNally, Michael Spriggs (acoustic guitar); Steve Gibson, Larry Hanson, Jeff King, Brent Mason, Jerry McPherson (electric guitar); Rick Hall (electric mandolin); Brent Rowan (electric sitar); Floyd S. Newman (baritone saxophone); Dennis Burnside, Steve Nathan (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); John Hobbs (piano); Bob Patin (Hammond B-3 organ); Michael Rhodes, Jimmie Lee Sloas, Glenn Worf, Bob Wray (bass); Eddie Bayers, Shannon Forrest, Chris McHugh, Greg Morrow, James Stroud (drums); Trinecia Butler, Wendell Mobley, John Wesley Ryles, Cindy Shelton, Lisa Silver (background vocals). Producers include: Don Cook, Rick Hall, Michael Omartian, James Stroud, Teddy Gentry. If Kevin Costner was a country singer he'd probably have Randy Owen's sensitive baritone voice, which in tandem with the requisite soaring fiddles ever-present here is Alabama's not-so-secret weapon. The band seem so effortlessly expert at creating perfect contemporary country confections it's hard to imagine them ever out of the spotlight, yet they spent a large part of the '90s sidelined by an onslaught of fresh country stars and guys in black hats. Alabama's first release of the new millennium is clearly a bid to recapture past glories, and it succeeds brilliantly. The title track is another in a noteworthy line of South's-gonna-rise-again anthems that straddles both commercial rock and country markets, and although the band occasionally descends into syrupy ballads the likes of "Will You Marry Me," there's always a potential AOR smash like "I Can't Hide My Heart" or "I Can't Love You Any Less" to show the world that Alabama's back where it belongs.
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