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Alabama 3 is a British band mixing rock, dance, blues, country and gospel styles. Founded in Brixton, London, in 1989. In the United States, they're known as A3 to avoid a legal conflict with the well-established country music band Alabama. They achieved international fame when the producers of hit TV series The Sopranos chose their track " Woke Up This Morning" for the show's opening credits. Other members of the band were accumulated over a lengthy period, but it's known that Rob Spragg was at university with Piers Marsh, the harmonica player and synth programmer for the band whilst Orlando Harrison, the group's current keyboardist, used to live with Jake Black.
In August 2007, they toured under the name of "Alabama 3: Acoustic and Unplugged" with Devlin Love to promote their new album, M.O.R. (released September 10, 2007. Bassist John "Segs" Jennings has apparently left the band, saying he's "busy elsewhere and [hedoesn't] have the time."
The latest album M.O.R includes a cover of Jerry Reed's 1970s hit "Amos Moses" and features The Proclaimers on the track "Sweet Joy". In September and October 2007, the band toured the UK in support of M.O.R. with Irish band Republic Of Loose supporting.
On Friday 29th February 2008 members of the band encored with Carbon/Silicon at the seventh and final Carbon Casino gig at The Inn On The Green, under the Westway. Mick Jones joined them onstage to add guitar and backing vocals to a version of " Woke Up This Morning".
Current band members/aliases
The members of the band are:
Musical style
Alabama 3's sound is a blend of country, blues, and acid house. Their songs have sampled Jim Jones in " Mao Tse Tung Said" and Birmingham Six survivor Patrick Hill in "The Thrills Have Gone." Trouser Press reviewer Jason Reeher wrote that A3's "debut is brilliant and shambolic...owing huge debts to both Hank Williams and Happy Mondays."
Alabama 3's music in TV and film
Alabama 3's song "Woke Up This Morning" from Exile on Coldharbour Lane plays during the opening credits of the HBO television series The Sopranos.
A snippet of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife" can be heard at the beginning of the first episode of the third season of The Sopranos as Tony Soprano walks down the drive way to get his morning newspaper.
"Mansion on the Hill" featured on the Kurt Russell/Kevin Costner film 3000 Miles to Graceland.
"Too Sick to Pray", from La Peste, plays on the radio at one point in the film Gone in 60 Seconds and "Peace in the Valley" in A Life Less Ordinary.
A shortened alternate version of "Woke Up This Morning" can be heard for nearly 50 seconds in The Simpsons episode "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge", while Fat Tony and his gang are on the ride to the Simpsons' house. The sequence is a parody of the opening sequence of The Sopranos. "Woke Up This Morning" is also in the later Simpsons episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer".
"Sister Rosetta" from Exile on Coldharbour Lane can be heard in the film Barnyard.
Rapper Nas sampled "Woke Up This Morning" for his 2001 hit, "Got Ur Self A...."
Woke Up This Morning was also used in an episode of BBC series Top Gear, in which the team were driving through Alabama itself.
Alabama 3's song "Mao Tse Tung Said" from Exile on Coldharbour Lane was used in the first episode of the second season of Torchwood.
On the Region 4 DVD release of the Sopranos' first season, the case incorrectly cites the "Woke Up This Morning" music video included in the Special Features as being performed by "Alabama 5".
Discography
Studio albums
Exile on Coldharbour Lane (1997) UK #153
La Peste (2000) UK #80
Power In The Blood (2002) UK #88
The Last Train To Mashville vol. 2 (2003)
Outlaw (2005) UK #83
M.O.R. (September 10, 2007) UK Indie #7
Hits and Exit Wounds (April 21, 2008)
Solo album
Robert Love, Ghost Flight (2006)
Singles and EPs
"Ain't Going To Goa" (1996) UK #98, UK #40 (1998 re-release)
"Woke Up This Morning" (1997) UK #80, UK #80 (2000 re-issue)
"Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" (1997) UK #72
"Converted" (1998) UK #133
"Mansion on the Hill" (2001) UK #151
"Wade Into The Water" (2001)
"Reachin'" (2003) UK #176
"Hello... I'm Johnny Cash" (2005) UK #78
"How Can I Protect You" (2005)
"Gospel Train" (2005)
"Lockdown" (2007)
"Middle of the Road" (2008)
Live albums, imports, compilations and bootlegs
Converted pt. 1 (import) (1998)
Woke Up This Morning (import) (2000)
Sad Eyed Lady / Alabama3 remixes (2001)
Mansion on the Hill (import) (2001)
Ya Basta - Live In Italy (bootleg) (2001)
Zero Tolerance (bootleg) (2001)
Transfusion Power in the Blood Remixes (tour only) (2002)
Live in Dublin (tour only) (2002)
The Last Train To Mashville vol. 1 (tour only) (2004)
Live At Glastonbury 2005 (tour only) (2006)
Outlaw Remixes (tour only) (2006)
Notes and references
Further Information
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