40 Hour Week

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Five years and seven albums after signing with RCA Records, Alabama took a creative turn with 40 Hour Week. The title song best represented the change. The music contained a tougher, more driving edge, while the lyrics celebrated American workers rather than love or the rural South. For the most part, the stylistic shift was slight. The first million-selling group in country music remained breezily energetic and acutely polished. But the slightly more aggressive sound made this the quartet's most successful crossover album, as it entered the pop Top 10 in 1985. It's also the album most likely to appeal to those who think the band's early '80s work is too soft and contrived. --Michael McCall

40 Hour Week,Alabama,RCA,Contemporary Country,Country,Country & Western,Country-Pop,Pop

Average customer rating: More of the same

40 Hour Week Alabama Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Touch Just Us My Home's In Alabama Roll On The Closer You Get... ASIN: B000002W86 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Forty Hour Week (For A Livin')
2. Can't Keep A Good Man Down
3. There's No Way
4. Down On Longboat Key
5. Louisiana Moon
6. I Want To Know You Before We Make Love
7. Fireworks
8. (She Won't Have A Thing To Do With) Nobody But Me
9. As Right Now
10. If It Ain't Dixie (It Won't Do)

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Five years and seven albums after signing with RCA Records, Alabama took a creative turn with 40 Hour Week. The title song best represented the change. The music contained a tougher, more driving edge, while the lyrics celebrated American workers rather than love or the rural South. For the most part, the stylistic shift was slight. The first million-selling group in country music remained breezily energetic and acutely polished. But the slightly more aggressive sound made this the quartet's most successful crossover album, as it entered the pop Top 10 in 1985. It's also the album most likely to appeal to those who think the band's early '80s work is too soft and contrived. --Michael McCall

Customer Reviews:

More of the same.......2006-08-09

This album continues the signatures of the band's 80's output: A mix of band-penned and outside songs, along with the typical song or two fronted by bassist Teddy Gentry or guitarist Jeff Cook instead of main vocalist Randy Owen. And as usual, these forays are hit and miss. Typically, if you like a particular album from the first six ("My Home's In Alabama" through this one), you will like them all. Get this one before it goes the way of Ronnie Milsap's albums from the same era, and is unobtainable for less than $40.

Music Album:

1. A Moment of Forever
2. Achy Breaky Heart [Import]
3. All That Matters
4. An American Quilt: 1967-1974
5. An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956 [Live] [Original recording remastered]
6. And the Crowd Goes Wild
7. Baby Girl: A Tribute to My Father, Carter Stanley
8. Best Of The Hightone Years
9. Bluegrass at the Roots: 1961
10. Buck and Roll, Vol. 1

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