Jerry Reed's 1967 swinging song about a musician searching for a place to play guitar — traveling through Tennessee, Georgia and Florida before settling in Mobile, Alabama — provided Reed with ...

A list of great songs by Alabama artists? That extremely long document would stretch, oh, from Muscle Shoals to Mobile. I was asked to narrow it down to five favorites, as part of a Facebook ...

Alabama has released so many hits over its long and impressive career -- more than 20 No. 1 singles, for example -- that creating a list of, say, 10 essential songs can be quite difficult.

We're tracing the career of country supergroup Alabama by celebrating the Top 10 Alabama Songs. ... Dixieland Delight," 1981’s "Love in the First Degree" and 1988’s "Song of the South." ...

More than 40 years after its release, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama is still one of the most recognized rock anthems celebrating the deep South. It's also a song with a complicated legacy.

This moment was of the full-circle variety, as Gentry admits the very first song that he, Owen and Cook played together was a Merle Haggard song. In 1969 he sent "Sing Me Back Home" to No. 1, and ...

"I didn't think there'd be anybody in the audience," Alabama's Randy Owen coyly joked when he and cousin-bandmate Teddy Gentry took center stage at the CMT Giants: Alabama tribute show this August ...

Released in the 1980s, “Song of the South” was originally recorded by Bobby Bare. While covering the song on their Southern Star album, Alabama watched as the hit dominated the charts in the U ...

As the story goes, “Sweet Home Alabama” was originally intended as a response to Neil Young. Ronnie Van Zant, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, was a big fan of Young’s music, but he was ...

Jeff Cook, a guitarist who co-founded the country group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” died Nov. 7 at his home in ...