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''The Essential Alabama'' was a compilation album that chronicled the music of the country music band Alabama. Issued as part of BMG International's "The Essential" series, the album was released in June 1998.
As with other albums issued in "The Essential" series, the Alabama volume chronicled the music offered during the peak of the band's phenomenal 1980s success. The liner notes include a biography and detailed information about each of the 16 songs featured on the album.
Unlike their previous "greatest hits" compilations, Alabama's ''The Essential Alabama'' was not strictly a greatest-hits package, a point some reviewers picked up on . As with other volumes in "The Essential" series, the Alabama contained album tracks and songs that had previously been unissued. Four such tracks are present here: "Very Special Love," "As Right Now," "The Fans" and "I Showed Her."
Of the 12 songs that were singles, 10 of those reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard magazine'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts during the 1980s. The two other singles were 1980's "My Home's in Alabama" (peaked at No. 17, featured here in its radio-edit version) and 1987's "Tar Top" (the song that broke Alabama's string of 21-straight No. 1 singles when it peaked at No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' country charts). - Wikipedia