When It All Goes South is the nineteenth studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in 2001. It produced the singles "When It All Goes South", "Will You Marry Me" and "The Woman He Loves". This became Alabama's final studio album of original materials until 2015's Southern Drawl. It ranked at number 37 on the Billboard 200 and number four on the Country Albums Chart.
Commercial performance When It All Goes South became the group's highest sales peak of their career (since 1991), opening at 38,000 units, which proved higher sales than Twentieth Century, which it last opened at 33,000 copies. This placed the album at number four on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and number 37 on the Billboard 200. Overall, it has spent eight weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and 28 weeks in the country chart.
Track listing
Personnel
Alabama Jeff Cook- background vocals, electric guitar; lead vocals on "Wonderful Waste of Time" Teddy Gentry- background vocals, bass guitar; lead vocals on "Love Remains" Randy Owen- lead vocals, background vocals
Alabama's drummer, Mark Herndon, does not play on the album.
Additional Musicians Tim Akers- keyboards Jann Arden- vocals on "Will You Marry Me" Eddie Bayers- drums Dennis Burnside- B-3 organ, keyboards, piano Trinecia Butler- background vocals Larry Byrom- acoustic guitar, electric guitar Rick Carnes- keyboards Mark Casstevens- acoustic guitar Christopher Cross- vocals on "Love Remains" Dan Dugmore- steel guitar Shannon Forrest- drums, percussion Larry Franklin- fiddle, mandolin Paul Franklin- steel guitar Steve Gibson- electric guitar Rick Hall- electric mandolin, percussion Larry Hanson- electric guitar, trumpet John Hobbs- keyboards, piano Jim Horn- saxophone John Barlow Jarvis- keyboards Wayne Jackson - trumpet Jeff King- electric guitar Josh Leo- acoustic guitar, electric guitar Andrew Love- tenor saxophone Brent Mason- electric guitar Mac McAnally- acoustic guitar Chris McHugh- drums Terry McMillan- harmonica, percussion Jerry McPherson- bouzouki, electric guitar, electric sitar Wendell Mobley- background vocals Greg Morrow- drums, percussion Steve Nathan- B-3 organ, keyboards, piano, synthesizer James Nelson- saxophone Floyd S. Newman- baritone saxophone Jimmy Nichols- piano, synthesizer Michael Omartian- piano, keyboards Dean "Dino" Pastin- harmonica, keyboards, saxophone Bob Patin- B-3 organ, keyboards, synthesizer, synth flute Michael Rhodes- bass guitar Tom Roady- percussion Brent Rowan- electric guitar, electric sitar John Wesley Ryles- background vocals Scotty Sanders- steel guitar Michael Severs- electric guitar Cindy Shelton- background vocals Brian D. Siewert- synth strings Lisa Silver- background vocals Jimmie Lee Sloas- bass guitar Michael Spriggs- acoustic guitar Don Srygley- electric guitar, percussion James Stroud- drums Harvey Thompson- tenor saxophone Cindy Walker- background vocals Christopher Walters- keyboards Biff Watson- bouzouki, acoustic guitar Glenn Worf- bass guitar Bob Wray - bass guitar
Voices on "I Write a Little" by Chris DeCarlo, Greg Fowler, Keith Gale, Sam Harrell, Adrian Michaels, Darcy Miller, Dan Nelson, Mike Siris, Suzette Tucker, and Mike Wilson; Military Advisor: LTC James (Jim) E. Pyle U.S. Army (Ret.)
Production Alabama (all tracks except "Love Remains" and "The Woman He Loves") Don Cook ("Wonderful Waste of Time", "I Write a Little", "Simple as That", "When It All Goes South") Josh Leo and Larry Michael Lee ("Right Where I Am", "I Can't Love You Any Less", "Clear Across America Tonight") James Stroud ("Will You Marry Me", "You Only Paint the Picture Once", "I Can't Hide My Heart") Rick Hall ("Reinvent the Wheel", "Start Living", "Down This Road") Michael Omartian and Teddy Gentry ("Love Remains") Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen ("The Woman He Loves")
Chart performance
Weekly charts Chart (2001) Peak position
Year-end charts Chart (2001) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard) 45
Singles Year Single Peak positions US Country US 2000 "When It All Goes South" 15 110 2001 "Will You Marry Me" 41 — "The Woman He Loves" — —
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