Get in the Groove

Today’s suggested blog topic is get in the groove since this is day nine of the January Ultimate Blog Challenge. Our blog host is a Beatles fan but I’m a country music fan. Paul suggested to share photographs of part of our lives that people may not know about.

So why not share about the Alabama Band! They started playing for tips at the Bowery, a small bar in Myrtle Beach back in 1973. At that time they were known as Wild Country. My sister and her friends got to know the band well and they would have practice sessions where she was living back then. This is a blog about their Alabama Band history I wrote back in January 2016, the year I first joined the UBC!

Rich and I had never heard of the band until we came to Myrtle Beach 1983. They opened The Alabama Theatre and we would come down from upstate New York for every concert they had. We were hooked on them and I even called my favorite country music station in upstate New York when we came home from one of their concerts and they started playing their songs! This is one of the few records they recorded under their Wild Country name before they changed to Alabama. The signed photo is from my grandson when he was in college in Alabama. Randy’s niece and him were friends and she surprised me with this.

Alabama Band had a huge following, their songs were more like life stories. I embroidered a “fan” on the back of my fan jacket and that made quite a hit when we went to their concerts. And I still have it!

At their Alabama Band Reunion in 2013, we had front row center seats for back to back concerts and Randy tossed my this pick at the end of the show! My two favorite songs from the group are I’m in a Hurry and Angels Among Us. If you haven’t heard these, check them out!