Alabama Live

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Alabama Live
Alabama - Live.jpg
Live album by Alabama
Released 1988
January 21, 2002 (re-release)
Genre Country
Length 64:05
Label RCA Records
Producer Harold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama chronology
Just Us
(1987)Just Us1987
Alabama Live
(1988)
Southern Star
(1989)Southern Star1989
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2/5 stars [1]

Alabama Live is the first live album by the American band Alabama. Their first live compilation, it was released in 1988 and was a Number One album on Top Country Albums. The album includes live renditions of various singles from the band's career, as well as the album tracks "Red River", "Fireworks" and "Gonna Have a Party". Also included is a cover of the Marshall Tucker Band's "Can't You See", which Alabama had never included on any of their studio albums.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (Bob Corbin) – 3:44
  2. "Tennessee River" (Randy Owen) – 7:48
  3. "Take Me Down" (J.P. Pennington, Mark Gray) – 4:50
  4. "Love in the First Degree" (Jim Hurt, Tim DuBois) – 2:56
  5. "Red River" (Bud McGuire, George Pearce) – 4:04
  6. "Dixieland Delight" (Ronnie Rogers) – 5:10
  7. "Lady Down on Love" (Owen) – 3:51

Side Two

  1. "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" (Dan Mitchell, Murry Kellum) – 3:32
  2. "Fireworks" (Ronnie Scaife, Phil Thomas, Kenny Durham) – 3:58
  3. "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
  4. "Gonna Have a Party" (Bruce Channel, Kieran Kane, Cliff Cochran) – 5:32
  5. "Can't You See" (Toy Caldwell) – 7:41
  6. "My Home's in Alabama" (Owen, Teddy Gentry) – 8:16

Personnel

Alabama

Guest musicians

  • Costo Davis – keyboards
  • Joe "Dixie" Fuller – percussion

Chart performance

Chart (1988) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 76

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[2] Platinum 1,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Sources

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  1. Alabama Live at AllMusic
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Preceded by Top Country Albums number-one album
August 6, 1988
Succeeded by
Wild Streak
by Hank Williams, Jr.