Alabama - Essential - Music & Performance - CD

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.

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, All Music Guide

Performer	Alabama
Music genre	Country
Music subgenre	Rock
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	2005
Edition	Standard
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Number of tracks	42
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	2
Series title	Alabama - Essential [COMPACT DISCS] Rmst
Track listing	Five O'Clock 500, Keepin' Up, How Do You Fall in Love, Tennessee River, Why Lady Why, Old Flame, Feels So Right, Love in the First Degree, Mountain Music, Take Me Down, Close Enough to Perfect, Dixieland Delight, Closer You Get, Lady Down on Love, Roll on (Eighteen Wheeler), When We Make Love, If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band), (There's a) Fire in the Night, There's No Way, Forty Hour Week (For a Livin'), Can't Keep a Good Man Down, She and I, Touch Me When We're Dancing, You've Got the Touch, Face to Face, Fallin' Again, Song of the South, If I Had You, High Cotton, Southern Star, Jukebox in My Mind, Forever's As Far As I'll Go, Down Home, Here We Are, Then Again, Born Country, I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why), Once Upon a Lifetime, Hometown Honeymoon, Reckless, Give Me One More Shot, She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl, In Pictures, Sad Lookin' Moon
Record label	RCA
Composer	ALABAMA
Songwriter	songwriter
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N