ALABAMA Essential 3.0 - 2008 Country Music compilation 3-CD Box-set
Format: CD Condition: New Year of Release: 2008 Cat. No.: 30990 Label: Sbme/Legacy
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.
[RCA Nashville/Legacy's Limited Edition 3.0 appeared in 2008 and included a bonus CD - in addition to the original, two-CD set.]
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
TRACK LISTING:
CD 1:
1 Five O'Clock 500 2 Keepin' Up 3 How Do You Fall In Love 4 Tennessee River 5 Why Lady Why 6 Old Flame 7 Feels So Right 8 Love In The First Degree 9 Mountain Music 10 Take Me Down 11 Close Enough To Perfect 12 Dixieland Delight 13 The Closer You Get 14 Lady Down On Love 15 Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) 16 When We Make Love 17 If You're Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band) 18 (There's A) Fire In The Night 19 There's No Way 20 Forty Hour Week (For A Livin') 21 Can't Keep A Good Man Down 22 She And I
CD 2:
1 Touch Me When We're Dancing 2 You've Got The Touch 3 Face To Face Duet Wth K.T. Oslin 4 Fallin' Again 5 Song Of The South 6 If I Had You 7 High Cotton 8 Southern Star 9 Jukebox In My Mind 10 Forever's As Far As I'll Go 11 Down Home 12 Here We Are 13 Then Again 14 Born Country 15 I'm In A Hurry (And Don't Know Why) 16 Once Upon A Lifetime 17 Hometown Honeymoon 18 Reckless 19 Give Me One More Shot 20 She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl 21 In Pictures 22 Sad Lookin' Moon
CD 3:
1 My Home's In Alabama 2 Angels Among Us 3 She's Got That Look In Her Eyes 4 Dancin', Shaggin' On The Boulevard 5 God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You Featuring *Nsync 6 When It All Goes South
