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Alabama

In 1969, three cousins, Jeff Cook, Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, started a band called Young Country. By 1972 the band added friend Bennett Vartanian as the drummer and renamed itself Wild Country, and even though they would ultimately achieve superstar status as Alabama, Wild Country remains the band's corporate identity. In 1973 the band relocated to South Carolina to become the house band for a club called The Bowery. They stayed seven summers at The Bowery, gaining a huge regional following, changing the band name to Alabama and utilizing one drummer after another before Mark Herndon came into the picture. The band had gone through a series of independent record releases when RCA agreed to cut their debut album “My Home’s In Alabama,” and every song released from it became a #1 hit. By 1981 Alabama was named Top Vocal Group of the Year by the Country Music Association. The following year the band again took home the CMA's Vocal Group of the Year, as well as the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year. They also won the CMA's Instrumental Group of the Year. In 1982, Alabama had #1 hits with "Mountain Music," "Take Me Down" and "Close Enough To Perfect." Two of their albums, “Mountain Music” and “My Home’s In Alabama,” went platinum, and they took home honors as... Next

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