The Closer You Get...
Album Summary
The Closer You Get... is the seventh studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in March 1983. All three singles from this album â "The Closer You Get", "Lady Down on Love" and "Dixieland Delight" â reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1983. The album itself reached number ten on the Billboard 200, becoming the band's highest-charting album. Considered a stylistic move towards a more pop-friendly sound, the album was described as a mix of "easy listening" country pop and neotraditional country by AllMusic's Vik Iyengar.
Tracklist
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A1 The Closer You Get
4:32
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A2 Lady Down On Love 3:57
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A3 She Put The Sad In All His Songs 4:01
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A4 Red River 4:16
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A5 What In The Name Of Love 3:51
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B1 Dixieland Delight 5:23
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B2 Very Special Love 4:46
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B3 Dixie Boy 4:19
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B4 Alabama Sky 3:16
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B5 Lovin' Man 2:32
Total Runtime: 40:53
Most Popular Members
Teddy Gentry
Jeff Cook
Mark Herndon
Randy Owen
Richard Scott
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Artist Discography
Songs Of Inspiration 2
Wild Country (1976)
Deuces Wild (1977)
My Home's in Alabama (1980)
Feels So Right (1981)
Roll On (1984)
Christmas (1985)
40 Hour Week (1985)
The Touch (1986)
Just Us (1987)
Southern Star (1988)
Pass It On Down (1990)
American Pride (1992)
Cheap Seats (1993)
In Pictures (1995)
Christmas, Volume 2 (1996)
Dancin' on the Boulevard (1997)
Twentieth Century (1999)
When It All Goes South (2000)
Country Legends: 12 Number One Hits (2004)
Songs of Inspiration (2006)
Songs of Inspiration II (2007)
Southern Drawl (2015)
American Christmas (2017)
Down The River (Live 1981) (2021)
