“ALABAMA SPENT SEVEN YEARS PLAYING THE SAME TINY BEACH BAR — WHILE NASHVILLE KEPT TELLING THEM COUNTRY BANDS WOULD NEVER WORK. Most people would have gone home long before their hands started hurting. Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, and Jeff Cook were just cousins from rural Alabama, raised on church harmonies, cotton fields, and hard roads outside Fort Payne.”
Introduction Alabama Spent Seven Years Playing the Same Tiny Beach Bar—While Nashville Kept Telling Them Country Bands Would Never Work Most people would have packed their bags and gone home…