ALABAMA 3 - COUNTRY NIGHT

Concert Review by Neil Ryan

The Camden Underworld – Monday 12 March 2001

‘A Month of Mondays’ is an ambitious residency undertaken by Brixton’s Alabama 3 at the Camden Underworld whereby they will play live on four consecutive Mondays, and on each occasion they will adopt a different guise in order to perform their

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ALABAMA 3 - CONCERT

Concert Review by F Piralla

The Astoria, London – 14 December 2003

For those of you who don’t know, Alabama 3 are an 8-piece British band with a bad reputation and an even worse American accent that also happen to be the authors of the soundtrack to the US TV series THE SOPRANOS.

The

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ALABAMA 3 - GOSPEL NIGHT

Album Review by Samantha Rochford

The Camden Underworld, London – Monday 19 March 2001

The Brixton boys Alabama 3 moved North for their second show of four at Camden’s Underworld. The crowd/fans were mixed: from pig-tailed girlies to bearded bikers, they all strolled in, rolled up, and waited for enlightenment from “preacher man” Jake

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ALABAMA 3 - LA PESTE

Album Review by Mark Bayross

Mis-named after two black men who were hung for allegedly raping a white woman in the American Deep South in the 1930s, Alabama 3 rage against injustice and inequality through a joyous amalgamation of country blues and acid house. Rather than the Deep South, they come from a part

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ALABAMA 3 - MANSION ON THE HILL

Single Review by Mark Bayross

Hot on the heels of their “Month Of Mondays” residency at the Camden Underworld and a tour of the rest of the UK, everyone’s favourite Brixton-based preachermen are back to peddle more groove-laden swamp-blues in the form of latest single MANSION ON THE HILL.

Taken from their 2000 album

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ALABAMA 3 - OUTLAW

Album Review by Mark Bayross

As its title and cover artwork suggests, Alabama 3’s fifth album (following on from their acoustic versions album LAST TRAIN TO MASHVILLE) is a dedication to the outlaws of not just American folklore, but throughout British history, many of whom are unsung romantic heroes, fighting to bring justice for

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ALABAMA 3 - POWER IN THE BLOOD

Album Review by Mark Bayross

Following on from Alabama 3’s excellent 2000 album LA PESTE, a record which spawned three singles that should have burned up the charts if there was any justice in this world, POWER IN THE BLOOD sees the South London group return on similarly fine form.

Once again fusing country

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ALABAMA 3 - REACHIN'

Single Review by Mark Bayross

The ever-engaging Brixton collective that is Alabama 3 release REACHIN’, one of the more mellow cuts from their third album, POWER IN THE BLOOD, as its first single.

Beats, slide guitar, soulful backing vocals and Larry Love’s laconic drawl are all present and correct across the lead track and

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ALABAMA 3 - REUNION NIGHT

Concert Review by EDF

The Camden Underworld – 2 April 2001

Are you tired of going to gigs where the same things happen night after night? Smoke blown in your face, beer spilt down the back of your shirt and then the worst thing happens, the band comes on, plugs in, goes through the

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ALABAMA 3 - TECHNO NIGHT

Concert Review by Mark Bayross

The Camden Underworld – Monday 26 March 2001

The third in Alabama 3’s “Month of Mondays” saw the Brixton collective move their sights from country & western and gospel, to another part of their sound – techno. The cavernous Underworld – which must seem like home to these guys

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