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Randy Yeuell Owen (born December 13, 1949) is an American country musician. He is best known for his role as the lead singer of Alabama , a country rock band that saw tremendous mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Cook co-founded the band Wildcountry, along with his cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, in 1972 (the name was changed to Alabama in 1977). He contributed lead as well as backing vocals, lead guitar, keyboard, and fiddle to the group's productions. [ 2 ]
Alabama is an American country music band formed in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1969.The band was founded by Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and his cousin Teddy Gentry (bass, backing vocals).
Cousins Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen, born in Fort Payne, Alabama, bridge Southern rock's 1970s-era acts like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Charlie Daniels Band to country's pop-styled '90s ...
“ROC On” at 7 p.m. in the Ernest Stone Center’s Ward Theatre will feature Randy Owen, Jamey Johnson, Riley Green and Gordon Mote in a $500 a ticket fundraiser (general admission) for JSU ...
In a statement on July 28, 2023, President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged Navy for the first time. Beau Biden. The youngest of the grandchildren was born when Hunter Biden and his second wife ...
The song, a biographical look at Alabama's early career, hopes and dreams, also pays homage to the roots of band members Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook.The lyrics state that, while bigger and better things lay ahead, their home would always be in Alabama, "no matter where I lay my head" and that they were "southern-born and southern-bred."
A fiddle-heavy celebration of growing up near the Tennessee River (which flows fairly close to Alabama's home base of Fort Payne), the song expresses the regrets of having gotten the urge to roam, gratitude of the few times the singer gets to enjoy spending time by the river, and a desire to eventually settle down and raise a family in the ...