"Reckless" is the title of a song written by Michael Clark and Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens (singer)

Jeffery David "Jeff" Stevens is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. He recorded two albums on Atlantic America Records with his brother Warren Stevens and cousin Terry Dotson as Jeff Stevens and the Bullets, and later as a solo artist on the same label...

, and recorded by American

United States

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 country music group 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...

. It was released in September 1993 as the first single from their album, Cheap Seats

Cheap Seats (Alabama album)

Cheap Seats is the twelfth studio album by the American country music band Alabama. Released in 1993 on RCA Records, the album produced the singles "Reckless", "T.L.C. A.S.A.P." and "The Cheap Seats"...

. The song was their final number one the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

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) chart until May 2011, when they reached the number one position again with a guest vocal on Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley

Brad Douglas Paisley is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His style crosses between traditional country music and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references....

's "Old Alabama

Old Alabama

"Old Alabama" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Brad Paisley, featuring guest vocals from the band Alabama...

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Content

The song's narrator wants to take his lover in his Thunderbird, and wants for him and her to forget and care less about their current lives and live and love recklessly.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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magazine reviewed the song unfavorably, saying that it is a "recycled, B-movie Bruce tune." She goes on to say that if Alabama keeps recording songs like these than the band "might as well go ahead and change its name to New Jersey

New Jersey

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Chart positions

Chart (1993)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100	23
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1