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Alabama

During the golden age of Southern Rock in the early 1980s, it was Alabama's twanging, electrified, country pop anthems which came blasting out of truckers' stereos as they roared across lost American highways. Led by cousins Randy Owen (vocals, guitar), Teddy Gentry (bass) and Jeff Cook (guitar, fiddle), they initially formed as Wildcountry in 1972 and cut their teeth as a bar band in Myrtle Beach, California. Renaming themselves after their home state in 1977, their fourth album My Home's in Alabama (1980) was the group’s big commercial breakthrough. Follow-up albums Feel So Rig...