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| Alabama 3 / A3 (United States name because of trademark issues) | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin |  Brixton, London, England |
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| Genre(s) | Acid House Blues Country Gospel |
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| Years active | 1989 - present | |
| Label(s) | One Little Indian | |
| Website | http://www.alabama3.co.uk/ | |
| Members | ||
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Black Jonny Delafons Simon Edwards John Jennings Orlando Harrison Piers Marsh Mark Sams Rob Spragg |
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Alabama 3 is a British acid house, blues, country and gospel music band founded in Brixton, London, in 1989. In the United States, they are known as A3 to avoid a legal conflict with the well-established country music band Alabama. They achieved international fame when the producers of hit TV show The Sopranos chose their track "Woke Up This Morning" for the show's opening credits.
The band are particularly notable for their innovative fusion of styles, lyrics full of ironic intent, their deliberately humorous personas and outrageous live performances. In line with the many religious references inherent within gospel music every member of the group has an alias by which they are known, the band's founding members adopting the personas "Larry Love" (Rob Spragg) and "The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love" (Jake Black).
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The band was formed when Jake Black met Rob Spragg at an acid house party in Peckham and they decided that a fusion of country music with acid house was a musical possibility. Other members of the band were accumulated over a lengthy period but it is known that Rob Spragg was at university with Piers Marsh, the harmonica player and synth programmer for the band whilst Orlando Harrison, the group's current keyboardist, used to live with Jake Black.
Starting their act under the alias "The First Presleyterian
Church Of Elvis The Divine (UK)" they eventually switched names to
Alabama 3 and, after much wrangling and failure to capture attention,
having been dismissed by the mainstream media as a novelty act amidst
the climate of Britpop,
the group finally signed to One Little Indian records in 1997
for the release of their debut album
As of November 2006, they are currently touring under the name of "Alabama 3: Acoustic and Unplugged" with Devlin Love to promote their new acoustic album, out next year. They played RockNess in June 2007, Latitude in July and in August they are slated to perform at the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Inverness-shire, and the Bedford Rhythm Festival.
The members of the band are:
Alabama 3's sound is a self-professed blend of country, blues, and acid house. Their songs have sampled, with a hint of irony and righteous energy, Jim Jones in "Mao Tse Tung Said" and Birmingham Six survivor Patrick Hill in "The Thrills Have Gone."
opening sequence of The Sopranos.
On the Region 4 DVD release of the Sopranos' first season, the case incorrectly cites the "Woke Up This Morning" music video included in the Special Features as being performed by "Alabama 5".
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