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This page on the Alabama band who changed country music in the 1980's has a total of five tutorials to date to choose from to date. I'll have an article about the group on here shortly.

Alabama Guitar Lessons Available On This Page


1.
Cant Keep A Good Man Down | 2.Dixieland Delight | 3.High Cotton
4.Song Of The South | 5.The Closer You Get

Kirby's demo of Cant Keep A Good Man Down

1. Cant Keep A Good Man Down


This song became a #1 hit for Alabama back in 1985 when it was released as a single from their 6th album, "40 Hr Week".


The chords you'll need for this one are G, C, Em, D, F and an Am.



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Kirby's demo of Dixieland Delight

2. Dixieland Delight


This song hails from the band 4th album entitle "The Closer You Get" and became the first single from the album and also peaked at #1 on the country music charts.

You can use a G, D, Cm, Em and a C in this one.




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Kirby's demo of High Cotton

3. High Cotton


As Albama was reaching the end of the 80's they released this song from the album "Southern Star" and had yet another #1 hit with this one called High Cotton.

A great tune you can play with D, G, A, A7, E and B7.




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Kirby's demo of Song Of The South

4. Song Of The South


This song was first recorded in 1980 by Bobby Bare, Johnny Russell in 1981 and Tom T Hall in 1982. But it was Alabam who took the song to #1 in 1988 with their version.

You can use a G, D and C for this song.




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Kirby's demo of The Closer You Get

5. The Closer You Get


Alabama had three #1 hits from this album from 1983 with "The Closer You Get" being one of those hit songs.

Here are the chords I use for this song ... G, F, C, D, Em, Bm, Am and a Dsus.




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