To celebrate Alabama’s 50th anniversary, we pressed High Cotton : A Tribute to Alabama on BLUE VINYL for the first time.
Available November 29th, but you can ORDER NOW: Bandcamp / Amazon / Indie Record Stores
Lightning Rod Records assembled a wide variety of artists to record covers of country music supergroup Alabama’s hits and lesser-known album cuts. The result is High Cotton, and it’s not your everyday cookie cutter, Music Row tribute album. Artists ranging from legendary gospel blues group Blind Boys of Alabama to gritty Memphis rockers Lucero to country soul shouter JD McPherson put their unique spin on the Alabama repertoire.
“They wrote songs that made a lasting impression on the Southland. If that’s all my music could do, I’d be proud to have done it.”
– Ketch Secor, Old Crow Medicine show in American Songwriter Magazine
“There’s a reason Alabama is the biggest country band of all time: The songs they recorded are great reflections on what it’s like to live and love in the South.”
– Jason Isbell
TRACK LIST
Why Lady Why – JD McPherson
Dixieland Delight – Old Crow Medicine Show
If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band) – Turnpike Troubadours
Old Flame – Jason Isbell and John Paul White
High Cotton – T. Hardy Morris
I Can’t Love You Any Less – Amanda Shires
I’m In A Hurry (And Don’t Know Why) – Jessica Lea Mayfield
Lady Down On Love – Bob Schneider w/ Ray Benson
Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) – Shonna Tucker
The Closer You Get – Lucero
Feels So Right – Todd Snider and Elizabeth Cook
Love in the First Degree – Wade Bowen and Brandy Clark
Mountain Music – Jason Boland and The Stragglers
Christmas in Dixie – Blind Boys of Alabama