Alabama 3 are a band originating from Brixton, England, their music incorpo… Read Full Bio ↴Alabama 3 are a band originating from Brixton, England, their music incorporates elements of country, acid house, blues and gospel.
Named for the Alabama 2, a legal case in the American deep South during the 1930s, in which two black men were hanged for allegedly raping a white woman. The name is also a nod to other victims of injustice like the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4. In the United States, they are known as A3, after they were sued by the legendary country outfit Alabama.
They are perhaps best known in the United States for the remix of their song Woke Up This Morning, which appears as the theme song for the HBO hit series The Sopranos.
They have released six albums so far, with numerous bootlegs more than doubling their catalog. Alabama 3 rarely tour outside of their home country.
Recently, female singer Devlin Love has joined the group.
Additional material:
Alabama 3 are an English band mixing rock, dance, blues, country, gospel, and spoken word styles, founded in Brixton, London in 1995. In the United States, the band are known as A3, allegedly to avoid any possible legal conflict with the country music band Alabama.[1] The group achieved international fame when the producers of hit TV series The Sopranos chose the track "Woke Up This Morning" for the show's opening credits.[1]
The band are particularly notable for their fusion of styles, lyrics full of ironic intent, their deliberately humorous personas and their outrageous live performances. Every member of the group has an alias by which he is known, the band's founding members adopting the personas Larry Love (Rob Spragg) and The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love (Jake Black).
The band 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.[2] 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.[2] Prior to the formation of the Alabama 3, Jake had gone through his "wilderness years" period of which there is little or no recorded output. This creative gulch lasted years following the demise of The Jangletties.
Starting their act under the alias the First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine (UK), the group eventually switched names to Alabama 3 and, after having been dismissed by the mainstream media as a novelty act, the group finally signed with One Little Indian Records in 1997 for the release of debut album, Exile on Coldharbour Lane.[3]
In August 2007, the group toured under the name of Alabama 3: Acoustic and Unplugged, with Harpo Strangelove and Devlin Love, to promote their new album M.O.R. (released 10 September 2007). Bassist John "Segs" Jennings apparently left the band, saying he was "busy elsewhere and [he doesn't] have the time."[4] The band's sixth studio album album M.O.R included a cover of Jerry Reed's 1970s hit "Amos Moses" and features The Proclaimers on the track "Sweet Joy" plus piano parts on the country stomp version of the Gil Scott Heron song "The Klan", written by Heron and Brian Jackson. In September and October 2007, the band toured the UK in support of M.O.R. with Irish band Republic Of Loose supporting.
On Friday 29 February 2008, Larry Love, Devlin Love and Mark Sams did an encore with Carbon/Silicon at the seventh and final Carbon Casino gig at the Inn on the Green, under the Westway. Mick Jones joined the group on-stage to add guitar and backing vocals to a version of "Woke Up This Morning."
Having recorded and toured with the band in the early days, Aurora Dawn rejoined the band in 2009, and sometime between late 2010 and early 2011, programmer, harmonicist, and founding member Piers "Mountain of Love" Marsh left the band. Although no reason has yet been publicly given, his departure appears to be amicable, as he is still an active contributor to the band's Facebook page. He and other Alabama 3 founder member, Sir Eddie Real, are now performing new material under the name of "Mountain of Love" with vocals from various guest vocalists.
The members of the band are:
Rob Spragg AKA Larry Love: vocals
Jake Black AKA The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love: vocals
Orlando Harrison AKA The Spirit: keyboards, keyboard bass, vocals
Mark Sams AKA Rock Freebase: guitar, bass guitar
Aurora Dawn: vocals
Steve Finnerty AKA LOVEPIPE: production, guitar and vocals
Nick Reynolds AKA Harpo Strangelove: harmonica, percussion, vocals (son of Bruce Reynolds, architect of the Great Train Robbery of 1963.[5] Bruce appears on the band's 2005 album, Outlaw).
John Jennings AKA Segs: backing vocals, guitar
Past Members:
Zoe Devlin AKA Devlin Love: vocals
Jonny Delafons AKA L. B. Dope: drums, percussion
Simon (The Dude) Edwards AKA Sir Eddie Real: percussion, vocals
Piers Marsh AKA The Mountain of Love: Synths
Film:
"Peace in the Valley" is featured in the film A Life Less Ordinary (1997).
"Too Sick to Pray" plays on the radio in the film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000).
A snippet of "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" features in the film Some Voices (2000).
"Mansion on the Hill" featured on the Kurt Russell/Kevin Costner film 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001).
A part of "M.I.A" by the band is played in the film The Football Factory (2004) as the Chelsea firm travel up to Liverpool for an away match.
The song "Sister Rosetta" from Exile on Coldharbour Lane can be heard in the film Barnyard (2006).
A snippet of "Bulletproof" appears in A Very British Gangster (2007), Donal MacIntyre's documentary film about Manchester crime boss Dominic Noonan.
The song "Ain't Goin' to Goa" is featured in the motion picture Definitely, Maybe (2008).
The band is featured in the documentary We Dreamed America (2008). The film, which explores the influence of American country music on British artists, features three songs by the band.
"Mansion on the Hill" is used on the opening credits of mockumentory Good Arrows (2009), written by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh.
Television:
Episode four of the BBC Three series Being Human features "Too Sick to Pray" at its opening and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife" at its end. The songs were omitted from the DVD release of the episode due to copyright issues.[citation needed]
"Mansion on the Hill" features in the sixth episode of the ABC television series Carpoolers.
The closing scene to first season Criminal Minds episode titled "Won't Get Fooled Again" (10/05/05) plays "The Night We Nearly Got Busted".
A shortened alternate version of "Woke Up This Morning" can be heard for nearly 50 seconds in The Simpsons episode "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge", while Fat Tony and his gang are on the ride to the Simpsons' house. The sequence is a parody of the opening sequence of The Sopranos.
"Woke Up This Morning" is also in the later Simpsons episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer", which guest-starred Sopranos regulars Michael Imperioli and Joe Pantoliano.
A remixed version of "Woke Up This Morning" plays during the opening credits of the HBO television series The Sopranos.
On the Region 4 DVD release of season one of The Sopranos, the music video to "Woke Up This Morning" is included as a special feature; it is incorrectly credited as being performed by "Alabama 5".
A snippet of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife" can be heard at the beginning of The Sopranos: "Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" (episode 3.1) as Tony Soprano walks down the driveway to get his morning newspaper.
"Woke Up This Morning" was also used in an episode of BBC series Top Gear, in which the team were driving through Alabama.
"Mao Tse Tung Said" features in the first episode of the second season of Torchwood Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.
Rob Spragg (as Rob Love) wrote and recorded the theme to Welsh TV series Y Pris. He and John Hardy won the Best Original Music Soundtrack award at BAFTA Cymru 2008
Named for the Alabama 2, a legal case in the American deep South during the 1930s, in which two black men were hanged for allegedly raping a white woman. The name is also a nod to other victims of injustice like the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4. In the United States, they are known as A3, after they were sued by the legendary country outfit Alabama.
They are perhaps best known in the United States for the remix of their song Woke Up This Morning, which appears as the theme song for the HBO hit series The Sopranos.
They have released six albums so far, with numerous bootlegs more than doubling their catalog. Alabama 3 rarely tour outside of their home country.
Recently, female singer Devlin Love has joined the group.
Additional material:
Alabama 3 are an English band mixing rock, dance, blues, country, gospel, and spoken word styles, founded in Brixton, London in 1995. In the United States, the band are known as A3, allegedly to avoid any possible legal conflict with the country music band Alabama.[1] The group achieved international fame when the producers of hit TV series The Sopranos chose the track "Woke Up This Morning" for the show's opening credits.[1]
The band are particularly notable for their fusion of styles, lyrics full of ironic intent, their deliberately humorous personas and their outrageous live performances. Every member of the group has an alias by which he is known, the band's founding members adopting the personas Larry Love (Rob Spragg) and The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love (Jake Black).
The band 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.[2] 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.[2] Prior to the formation of the Alabama 3, Jake had gone through his "wilderness years" period of which there is little or no recorded output. This creative gulch lasted years following the demise of The Jangletties.
Starting their act under the alias the First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine (UK), the group eventually switched names to Alabama 3 and, after having been dismissed by the mainstream media as a novelty act, the group finally signed with One Little Indian Records in 1997 for the release of debut album, Exile on Coldharbour Lane.[3]
In August 2007, the group toured under the name of Alabama 3: Acoustic and Unplugged, with Harpo Strangelove and Devlin Love, to promote their new album M.O.R. (released 10 September 2007). Bassist John "Segs" Jennings apparently left the band, saying he was "busy elsewhere and [he doesn't] have the time."[4] The band's sixth studio album album M.O.R included a cover of Jerry Reed's 1970s hit "Amos Moses" and features The Proclaimers on the track "Sweet Joy" plus piano parts on the country stomp version of the Gil Scott Heron song "The Klan", written by Heron and Brian Jackson. In September and October 2007, the band toured the UK in support of M.O.R. with Irish band Republic Of Loose supporting.
On Friday 29 February 2008, Larry Love, Devlin Love and Mark Sams did an encore with Carbon/Silicon at the seventh and final Carbon Casino gig at the Inn on the Green, under the Westway. Mick Jones joined the group on-stage to add guitar and backing vocals to a version of "Woke Up This Morning."
Having recorded and toured with the band in the early days, Aurora Dawn rejoined the band in 2009, and sometime between late 2010 and early 2011, programmer, harmonicist, and founding member Piers "Mountain of Love" Marsh left the band. Although no reason has yet been publicly given, his departure appears to be amicable, as he is still an active contributor to the band's Facebook page. He and other Alabama 3 founder member, Sir Eddie Real, are now performing new material under the name of "Mountain of Love" with vocals from various guest vocalists.
The members of the band are:
Rob Spragg AKA Larry Love: vocals
Jake Black AKA The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love: vocals
Orlando Harrison AKA The Spirit: keyboards, keyboard bass, vocals
Mark Sams AKA Rock Freebase: guitar, bass guitar
Aurora Dawn: vocals
Steve Finnerty AKA LOVEPIPE: production, guitar and vocals
Nick Reynolds AKA Harpo Strangelove: harmonica, percussion, vocals (son of Bruce Reynolds, architect of the Great Train Robbery of 1963.[5] Bruce appears on the band's 2005 album, Outlaw).
John Jennings AKA Segs: backing vocals, guitar
Past Members:
Zoe Devlin AKA Devlin Love: vocals
Jonny Delafons AKA L. B. Dope: drums, percussion
Simon (The Dude) Edwards AKA Sir Eddie Real: percussion, vocals
Piers Marsh AKA The Mountain of Love: Synths
Film:
"Peace in the Valley" is featured in the film A Life Less Ordinary (1997).
"Too Sick to Pray" plays on the radio in the film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000).
A snippet of "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" features in the film Some Voices (2000).
"Mansion on the Hill" featured on the Kurt Russell/Kevin Costner film 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001).
A part of "M.I.A" by the band is played in the film The Football Factory (2004) as the Chelsea firm travel up to Liverpool for an away match.
The song "Sister Rosetta" from Exile on Coldharbour Lane can be heard in the film Barnyard (2006).
A snippet of "Bulletproof" appears in A Very British Gangster (2007), Donal MacIntyre's documentary film about Manchester crime boss Dominic Noonan.
The song "Ain't Goin' to Goa" is featured in the motion picture Definitely, Maybe (2008).
The band is featured in the documentary We Dreamed America (2008). The film, which explores the influence of American country music on British artists, features three songs by the band.
"Mansion on the Hill" is used on the opening credits of mockumentory Good Arrows (2009), written by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh.
Television:
Episode four of the BBC Three series Being Human features "Too Sick to Pray" at its opening and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife" at its end. The songs were omitted from the DVD release of the episode due to copyright issues.[citation needed]
"Mansion on the Hill" features in the sixth episode of the ABC television series Carpoolers.
The closing scene to first season Criminal Minds episode titled "Won't Get Fooled Again" (10/05/05) plays "The Night We Nearly Got Busted".
A shortened alternate version of "Woke Up This Morning" can be heard for nearly 50 seconds in The Simpsons episode "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge", while Fat Tony and his gang are on the ride to the Simpsons' house. The sequence is a parody of the opening sequence of The Sopranos.
"Woke Up This Morning" is also in the later Simpsons episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer", which guest-starred Sopranos regulars Michael Imperioli and Joe Pantoliano.
A remixed version of "Woke Up This Morning" plays during the opening credits of the HBO television series The Sopranos.
On the Region 4 DVD release of season one of The Sopranos, the music video to "Woke Up This Morning" is included as a special feature; it is incorrectly credited as being performed by "Alabama 5".
A snippet of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife" can be heard at the beginning of The Sopranos: "Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" (episode 3.1) as Tony Soprano walks down the driveway to get his morning newspaper.
"Woke Up This Morning" was also used in an episode of BBC series Top Gear, in which the team were driving through Alabama.
"Mao Tse Tung Said" features in the first episode of the second season of Torchwood Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.
Rob Spragg (as Rob Love) wrote and recorded the theme to Welsh TV series Y Pris. He and John Hardy won the Best Original Music Soundtrack award at BAFTA Cymru 2008
Wrong Is Right
Alabama 3 Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Wrong Is Right' by these artists:
Accept Do you believe, wrong is right When you turn the world…
Accept/DEAFFY Do you believe, wrong is right When you turn the world…
B-Liv Everything right is wrong again Just like in the long long…
Dirkschneider & U.D.O. I realize that there's nothing between us no more I'm not…
DJ Jose & G-Spott Yeah yeah yeah RBM aye woah look Aye I'm riding with my…
Frenzal Rhomb Two wrongs are right that's not incredibly right It's just t…
Los Invaders Wrong is right Wrong is right Wrong is right Wrong is right …
U.D.O. Dirkschneider I realize that there's nothing between us no more I'm not…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Alabama 3:
2129 When I saw you in the garden of Gethsemane Drunk…
A Wing And A Prayer Well I'm coming down On a wing and a prayer I'm losing…
Adrenaline Trippin' flippin' this is how we stick it to ya…
Ain I believe I'm gonna Shut down my chakras, shift Shiva offa…
Ain't Goin' To Goa I believe I'm gonna Shut down my chakras, shift Shiva offa…
Ain't Going to Goa I believe I'm gonna Shut down my chakras, shift Shiva offa…
Bad Girl She a bad girl, a bad bad girl The way I…
Bad to the Bone On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered…
Bourgeoisie Blues Temptation Comrades People of the world We ain't got nothin…
Bullet Proof Lively, lively, lively, lively, lively Let this world surviv…
Bulletproof Lively, lively, lively, lively, lively Let this world survi…
Cocaine Cocaine killed my community Heroin hurt my home Mama went do…
Converted Forty days you've been tired and tempted, Forty nights you'v…
Exodus You build your empire on my ancestors bones And then bomb…
Fly Fly with me Come on, fly with me Fly with me You'll never…
Goa I believe I'm gonna Shut down my chakras, shift Shiva offa…
Hello... I'm Johnny Cash what's your name? what's yo…
Hello...I'm Johnny Cash Combatto per me stesso perchĂ© ho fame e uccido il tuo…
Holy Blood I have been used, I've been abused Just from tryin' to…
Honey In The Rock Well baby I'm gettin' stir crazy, I'm goin' down the avenue…
HORSE I've got my horse on a train Gonna ride through the…
hotel california On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm…
How Can I Protect You she got a compact mirror stole it off her mother she…
Hypo Full Of Love Larry: Brothers and sisters I have a confession to make…
Hypo Full of Love (The 12 Step Plan) Brothers and sisters I have a confession to make this…
If I Should Die Tonight Crept again last night to where I slept with you Put…
Intro I was always searchin' for El Dorado Jus' put the ne…
Jacqueline Oi meu nome Ă© Jaqueline eu tenho 13 anos e…
Keep Your Shades On who is it? who is it? who is it? it's three twenty-eight a.…
Keep Your Shades On! who is it? who is it? who is it? it's three twenty-eigh…
Last Train to Mashville Oh Lord I dream, of a train the glory bound train get…
Let It Slide control the bass I just lost face somebody asked me their …
Let the Caged Bird Sing He had the hands of a missionary She had the body…
Lord Have Mercy Lord have mercy mercy mercy Lord have mercy Lord have…
Love Will Tear Us Apart When routine bites hard, And ambitions are low, And resentme…
Mansion On the Hill Hit the dance round about midnight Gin n juice and he's…
Mansion on the Hill (Arthur Baker Mix) He hit the dance hall round about mid-nine Gin and juice…
Mansion Onthe Hill Hit the dance round about midnight Gin n juice and he's…
Mao Martin Luther King died for his love! Kennedy died talking…
Old Purple Tin I lived with my mamma 'Til I was sixteen Old time religion…
Peace in the Valley [For whatever reason you refuse to feel this space we're…
Power in the Blood No time for spindoctor's medicine Cooked up by the governm…
Pray Sister Pray I'm in a lonely room Hank Williams sings a lovesick blues …
R.E.H.A.B Sometimes the light don't shine Sometimes the light don't s…
Reachin' Keep on reachin', yeah Keep on reachin', yeah Keep on r…
Rehab Sometimes the light don't shine Sometimes the light don't s…
Rush Monday morning always left me blue Tuesdays I could never m…
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife She don't get up till the sun goes down She don't…
Sinking... We ain't seen land for 13 months The water's running dry The…
Sister Rosetta It's a rainy night in Brixton D. Wayne Why are you…
Speed You come home late and you come home early You come…
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness You come home late and you come home early You come…
Strange You woken up on the backstage Hallelujah the red light's on…
Strobe Life I will worship you and this time we go to thank…
Summer in the City Long cold lonely winter Someday soon Change gonna come Cut …
Sweet Joy Sweet Joy Butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, Tornadoes in …
Terra Firma Cowboy Blues the world don't seem to fit me I'm always starin'at the…
The Ballad Of Mr. Daniels What the hell is this all about, I'm shaking/shivering, bu…
The Gospel Train storm warnings on the radiogram SOS, distress signals from …
The Moon Has Lost the Sun every time I manage to get one more breath into…
The Night We Nearly Got Busted Jack he dont chill he's popped too many pills says he's…
THE OPERATOR You saw the fire in the firmament I saw the pestilence…
The Thrills Have Gone Don't know if i miss you Do you miss the part…
Too Sick to Pray I'm in a lonely room Hank Williams sings a lovesick blues Wi…
Too Sick to Pray (Locarno and Burns mix) I'm in a lonely room Hank Williams sings the Lovesick Blues …
Too Sick To Preay I'm in a lonely room Hank Williams sings a lovesick blues …
Two Heads D. Wayne left the hospital after being operated on He could…
U Don't Dans 2 Tekno Last train to Mashville, girl, you got on board Packed up…
U Don't Dans 2 Tekno Anymore It was the last train to Mashville, girl, you got…
Up Above My Head rock'n roll, save my soul rock'n roll, save my soul you …
Wade Into the Water I want to go deep down yeh I want to go…
Wake Up This Morning Well, you woke up this morning Got yourself a gun Your mama…
Walking in My Sleep (If I were ever to die, not likely say I,…
Way Beyond the Blues Every sundown You make the break By the time you hit the…
Who the Fuck is John Sinclair You′re fucked up baby No This ain't no time for breakdown ba…
Woke Up This Morning What kind of animal smokes marijuana at his own confirmation…
Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One mix) You woke up this morning Got yourself a gun, Mama always sai…
Woke Up This Morning /Album version Well, you woke up this morning Got yourself a gun Your mama…
Woody Guthrie Another Psychopath in Iowa Loadin' up another round While th…
Work It Sun o diwani, Teri jawani badi mast mast hai Teri jawani bad…
Year Zero livin' in the city nobody said it would be easy seven mill…
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