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Twentieth Century (Alabama album)

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Released
  
June 15, 1999

Artist
  
Alabama

Producer
  
Don Cook

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
45:36

Release date
  
15 June 1999

Label
  
RCA Records

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Twentieth Century (1999)
  
When It All Goes South (2001)

Similar
  
Alabama albums, Country music albums

Twentieth Century is the eighteenth studio album of country music band Alabama, released in 1999 by RCA Records. It produced the singles "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You", a collaboration with 'N Sync, "Small Stuff", "We Made Love" and "Twentieth Century", which respectively reached numbers 3, 24, 63, and 51 on the Hot Country Songs charts. In addition, "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You" was the band's last top ten hit on the country charts.

Contents

"(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You" was originally recorded by 'N Sync in 1998 on their first album *NSYNC.

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic rated the album 2 out of 5 stars, saying that "There's not a note out of place or a missed harmony. It's easy to marvel at the sheer technical achievement of the record, since not only is it so well made, but the songs rarely make an impression…That's the problem with Twentieth Century: although it's pleasant, it never creates its own identity, even compared to latter-day Alabama records." He praised "Twentieth Century", "Mist of Desire", "Life's Too Short to Love This Fast", and "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" as the best tracks, but said that "taken in the context of the record, they're nearly indistinguishable from the rest".

Track listing

  1. "Twentieth Century" (Chris A.T. Cummings, Don Schlitz) - 4:11
  2. "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You" (Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken) - 4:38
  3. featuring 'N Sync
  4. "I'm In That Kind of Mood" (Greg Fowler, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Ronnie Rogers) - 3:38
  5. "We Made Love" (Tom Douglas, Billy Kirsch) - 3:36
  6. "Life's Too Short To Love This Fast" (Gary Baker, Frank J. Myers, Owen) - 3:18
  7. "Then We Remember" (Don Cook, John Barlow Jarvis) - 4:12
  8. "Little Things" (Buddy Cannon, Fowler, Gentry, John Jarrard, Owen) - 3:22
  9. "Mist of Desire" (Jeff Cook) - 3:06
  10. "Small Stuff" (Mark Collie, Hillary Kanter, Even Stevens) - 3:59
  11. "Too Much Love" (Fowler, Owen) - 3:55
  12. "Write It Down In Blue" (Fowler, Gentry, Owen, R. Rogers) - 4:15
  13. "I Love You Enough To Let You Go" (Baker, Myers, Owen) - 3:26

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.

Alabama

  • Jeff Cook — vocals, electric guitar
  • Teddy Gentry — vocals, bass guitar
  • Randy Owen — vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Mark Herndon - drums

    • Additional musicians

  • Mark Casstevens — acoustic guitar
  • Don Cook — background vocals
  • Larry Hanson — trumpet
  • John Barlow Jarvis — piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
  • Liana Manis — background vocals
  • Jim Nelson — saxophone
  • Dean C. Pastin — saxophone
  • Michael Rhodes — bass guitar
  • Brent Rowan — electric guitar, 12-string electric guitar, gut string guitar, electric sitar
  • Brian D. Siewert — synthesizer strings
  • Lonnie Wilson — drums, percussion
  • Glenn Worf — bass guitar

    • Songs

    1Twentieth Century4:12
    2God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You4:39
    3I'm in That Kind of Mood3:40

    References

    Twentieth Century (Alabama album) Wikipedia
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