My Home's in Alabama is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 band Alabama

Alabama (band)

Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...

, released on RCA Records

RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

 in 1980

1980 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1980.- Events :* January 25 — At age 84, octogenerian comedian George Burns becomes by far the oldest performer to have a single in the top 40 of Billboards Hot Country Singles chart with "I Wish I Was 18 Again." The...

. For a majority of fans, this represents the first widespread success of Alabama, despite the fact that they had released three albums before this one.

The title track pays homage to Alabama's southern rock roots. It reached No. 17 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart in early 1980. Two other tracks — the fiddle-heavy, southern rock-influenced "Tennessee River" and the ballad "Why Lady Why" — were the band's first two No. 1 songs, and laid the foundation for what became one of the most impressive popularity runs in country music history.

Also included on My Home's In Alabama is the group's 1979 single, "I Wanna Come Over", which peaked at No. 33 in November 1979. Both that song and the better-known title track were originally issued by MDJ Records, before the group was signed to RCA in early 1980.

Track listing

1. "My Home's in Alabama
   My Home's in Alabama (song)
   "My Home's in Alabama" is a song made famous by the country music band Alabama. Written by Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, the song was released in 1980 and served as the title track to Alabama's first album for RCA Records....
   
   " (Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen) – 6:27
2. "Hanging Up My Travelin' Shoes" (Gentry, Owen) – 2:17
3. "Why Lady Why
   Why Lady Why
   "Why Lady Why" is a song by the country music band Alabama. Written by Rick Scott and band member Teddy Gentry, the song was released in 1980, and eventually became the group's second No...
   
   " (Gentry, Richard Scott) – 4:11
4. "Getting Over You" (Cary Rutledge) – 3:15
5. "I Wanna Come Over
   I Wanna Come Over
   "I Wanna Come Over" is a song recorded and released by country music band Alabama.The song represented a number of milestones in the career of the Fort Payne, Alabama-based band. In 1979, Alabama had started to record again after a two-year hiatus...
   
   " (Richard Berardi, Michael Berardi) – 3:52
6. "Tennessee River
   Tennessee River (song)
   "Tennessee River" is a song made famous by the country music band Alabama. Written by the group's lead singer, Randy Owen, the song was released in 1980, and eventually became the group's first No...
   
   " (Owen) – 3:04
7. "Some Other Place, Some Other Time" (Jeff Cook) – 3:10
8. "Can't Forget About You" (Gentry) – 5:39
9. "Get It While It's Hot" (Owen, Gentry, Cook, Scott) – 3:03
10. "Keep On Dreamin'" (Cook, Scott) - 4:04

Alabama

• Jeff Cook - lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
   and vocals, lead vocals on "Some Other Place, Some Other Time" and "Keep On Dreamin'"
• Teddy Gentry - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   and vocals
• Mark Herndon - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   and vocals
• Randy Owen
  Randy Owen
  Randy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...
  
   - lead singer and rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  

Other musicians

• Jack Eubanks - acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  
• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
  Steel guitar
  Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
  
  
• David Humphries - drums
• Leo Jackson - acoustic guitar
• Terry McMillan
• Fred Newell - guitar
• Willie Rainsford - keyboards
• Billy Reynolds
• David Smith

Strings arranged by Kristin Wilkinson and performed by "The Wire Choir".

Album

Chart (1980)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	3
U.S. Billboard 200	71
Canadian RPM Country Albums	1

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	CAN Country RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...
1979	"I Wanna Come Over"	33	—
1980	"My Home's in Alabama"	17	—
	"Tennessee River"	1	1
	"Why Lady Why"	1	3