Alabama Live
{{Short description|1988 album by the American band, Alabama}}
{{One source|date=January 2011}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Alabama Live
| type = Live
| artist = Alabama
| cover = Alabama - Live.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1988
January 21, 2002 (re-release)
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Record Plant Mobile Studio (New York City, New York); The Music Mill (Nashville, Tennessee).
| genre = Country
| length = 64:05
| label = RCA Nashville
| producer = Harold Shedd and Alabama
| prev_title = Just Us
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = Southern Star
| next_year = 1989
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r91585}}
| rev2 =
| rev2Score =
}}
Alabama Live is the first live album by the American band Alabama. Released in 1988, it became a Number One album on Top Country Albums chart, marking their inaugural live compilation. The album features live renditions of various singles from the band's career, along with album tracks "Red River", "Fireworks" and "Gonna Have a Party". Additionally, the album includes is a cover of the Marshall Tucker Band's "Can't You See", track never before featured on any of Alabama's studio albums.
Track listing
=Side One=
- "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (Bob Corbin) – 3:44
- "Tennessee River" (Randy Owen) – 7:48
- "Take Me Down" (J.P. Pennington, Mark Gray) – 4:50
- "Love in the First Degree" (Jim Hurt, Tim DuBois) – 2:56
- "Red River" (Bud McGuire, George Pearce) – 4:04
- "Dixieland Delight" (Ronnie Rogers) – 5:10
- "Lady Down on Love" (Owen) – 3:51
=Side Two=
- "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" (Dan Mitchell, Murry Kellum) – 3:32
- "Fireworks" (Ronnie Scaife, Phil Thomas, Kenny Durham) – 3:58
- "When We Make Love/There's No Way" ("When We Make Love" by Lisa Palas, Will Robinson, John Jarrard; "There's No Way" by Troy Seals, Mentor Williams) – 3:31
- "Gonna Have a Party" (Bruce Channel, Kieran Kane, Cliff Cochran) – 5:32
- "Can't You See" (Toy Caldwell) – 7:41
- "My Home's in Alabama" (Owen, Teddy Gentry) – 8:16
Personnel
= Alabama =
- Jeff Cook – keyboards, electric guitar, fiddle, vocals
- Randy Owen – electric guitar, vocals
- Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, vocals
- Mark Herndon – drums
= Guest musicians =
- Costo Davis – keyboards
- Joe "Dixie" Fuller – percussion
= Production =
- Alabama – producers
- Harold Shedd – producer
- Dave Hewitt – recording engineer
- Kooster McAllister – recording engineer
- Jim Cotton – mix engineer
- Paul Goldberg – mix engineer
- Joe Scaife – mix engineer
- David Zammit – additional live and mix engineer
- Ed "K-9" Celletti – assistant engineer
- Phil Gitomer – assistant engineer
- Peter Hefter – assistant engineer
- Robert Kinkle – assistant engineer
- Fritz Lang – assistant engineer
- J.B. Matteotti – assistant engineer
- Milan Bogdan – digital editing
- Benny Quinn – digital editing, mastering
- Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location
- Kym Juister – art production
- Mary Hamilton – art direction, design
- Jim "Señor" McGuire – photography
- Charlie McGallen – hand tinting
- Cheryle Riddle – hair stylist
- Ann Payne Rice – make-up
Charts
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=Weekly charts=
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| scope="col"| Chart (1988)
! scope="col"| Peak |
|---|
| {{album chart|Billboard200|76|artist=Alabama|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 18, 2021}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardCountry|1|artist=Alabama|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 18, 2021}} |
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=Year-end charts=
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| scope="col"| Chart (1988)
! scope="col"| Position |
|---|
| scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1988/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1988|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 18, 2021}}
| 29 |
| scope="col"| Chart (1989)
! scope="col"| Position |
| scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1989/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 18, 2021}}
| 46 |
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Certifications
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=Alabama Live|artist=Alabama|type=album|award=Platinum|relyear=1988|certyear=1993}}
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Sources
- {{cite AV media notes |title=Alabama Live |others=Alabama |year=1988 |type=cassette liner notes |publisher=RCA Records |id=6825-4-R}}
{{Reflist}}
{{Alabama (band)|Alabama}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Alabama (American band) albums