Randy Owen

It's always awesome.

I got a quick Alabama Randy Owen story for you.

It's not on the show sheet, but it'll just take a second.

Yeah.

You remember this era of South Carolina football.

Six-foot-five, had the long hair.

So I'm spending, I don't know, seven or eight minutes standing next to Randy Owen of Alabama watching South Carolina and Florida in the bowels of the Georgia Dome.

That's my Randy Owen story.

And it was a song, a, a real story, uh, that I wrote of a little girl that lost her battle with cancer.

And Mr. Randy Owen was so sweet, so kind to come in to sing on that song with me in 2011.

Course, just, you know, made my, made my year, [laughs] uh, for, for him to be able to come in and sing on that.

But I was doing some writing with some guys and I said, I said, "Listen, I've got that song Go Get My Angel.

one.

Randy Owen, obviously the lead singer for the group Alabama, which growing up in northeast Alabama, there probably wasn't a bigger inspiration for me

And the

first time I ever heard Lookout Mountain was in my homes in Alabama.

So when I wrote Lookout Mountain, I sent it to Randy, not thinking he'd be on the song.

I just wanted to hear it.

He said, you need a partner on that one? And so here I've got a song with Randy Owen now.

So it's that easy too.

As I grew up in Alabama, we always went here.

He's singing about Lookout Mountain, and it's a heartbreak ballad from Riley and Randy Owen from Alabama.

Lookout Mountain, there she goes.

Where she stops, nobody knows.

I think that had a lot to do with, uh, uh, a lot of who you are really.

I talked, years ago I talked with, um, with Randy Owen.

Oh, yeah.

And more than just talking with him, I, I just watched what they did.

I wish more people would.

Yeah, me too.

I mean, I get on Facebook sometimes and I see it'll be like you or like Randy Owen, it'll be like this picture, and it'll be like kind of your face.

Yeah.

In award ceremonies that were held on October the 6th in 1998, the country music superstar group Alabama was officially honored with a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Band members Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, Jeff Cook, and Mark Herndon attended the ceremony.

In 1999, the fourth annual MoBo Awards took place.

They were co-hosted by Mel B, of course, of Spice Girls fame.

That's the biggest debut of his career and the first ever top ten on the chart.

Features collaborations with Brooks and Dunn, Randy Owen, Jake Worthington, and Hannah McFarland.

And even though Riley's now one of the biggest names in all of country music, he said he still makes a point of writing from the perspective of his small-town Alabama roots.

He just, I think they announced the show at the AMP coming up.

Uh, he had just come off the national championship, and I was put in a group, uh, that's when I was playing golf.

Uh, so it was Spurrier, myself, Randy Owen, uh, who is the lead singer and the, and the, the main person with the, with the country group Alabama.

They're one of the most successful groups, as I'm sure you know, of all time.

Sure.

And I was able to kind of sit down on the phone with Teddy Gentry and got some of the Alabama perspective I liked.

I'd like to get one more on that one, of course, and Randy, Owen, if you're listening, I would love to sit down with you and get your perspective on your working with Harold, and there are others that I'm in, that I'm hunting for, and That interview process, being able to talk to Don Von Tress, being able to sit down with you guys in a lot of settings and just listen and record stories that you guys tell has been probably the most fun I've had in this whole process.

Well,

that's cool.

Are there rules against that? Can pilots text and fly? What's the name of it? Alabama singing it.

That's Randy Owen, lead singer of Alabama.

The closer you get, some of the best bearded country you're ever going to find.

Man, Alabama's