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When It All Goes South is the nineteenth studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in 2001. It produced the singles "When It All Goes South", "Will You Marry Me" and "The Woman He Loves".[2] This became Alabama's final studio album of original materials until 2015's Southern Drawl. It ranked at No. 37 in Billboard Album Charts and No. 4 on Country Album Chart.

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When It All Goes South
Studio album by Alabama
Released	January 16, 2001
Genre	Country
Length	59:35
Label	RCA Nashville
Producer	Alabama Don Cook Josh Leo Larry Michael Lee James Stroud Rick Hall Michael Omartian Teddy Gentry Randy Owen
Alabama chronology
Twentieth Century (1999) When It All Goes South (2001) In The Mood: The Love Songs (2003)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	48/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
CDNow	[1]
Launch.com	[1]
Sonicnet	[1]
Wall of Sound	[1]

Track listing

Personnel

Alabama

• Randy Owen – lead vocals (1-9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16), backing vocals
• Jeff Cook – electric guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (14)
• Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (10)

Alabama's drummer, Mark Herndon, does not play on the album.

Additional Musicians

• Tim Akers – keyboards
• Dennis Burnside – acoustic piano, keyboards, Hammond B3 organ
• Rick Carnes – keyboards
• John Hobbs – acoustic piano, keyboards
• John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards
• Steve Nathan – acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers, Hammond B3 organ
• Jimmy Nichols – acoustic piano, synthesizers
• Michael Omartian – acoustic piano, keyboards
• Dean "Dino" Pastin – keyboards, harmonica, saxophones
• Bob Patin – keyboards, synthesizers, synth flute, Hammond B3 organ
• Brian D. Siewert – synth strings
• Christopher Walters – keyboards
• Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Josh Leo – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
• Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
• Michael Spriggs – acoustic guitar
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar, bouzouki
• Steve Gibson – electric guitar
• Larry Hanson – electric guitar, trumpet
• Jeff King – electric guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Jerry McPherson – electric guitar, bouzouki, electric sitar
• Brent Rowan – electric guitar, electric sitar
• Michael Severs – electric guitar
• Don Srygley – electric guitar, percussion
• Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Scotty Sanders – steel guitar
• Larry Franklin – fiddle, mandolin
• Rick Hall – electric mandolin, percussion
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar
• Bob Wray – bass guitar
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Shannon Forrest – drums, percussion
• Chris McHugh – drums
• Greg Morrow – drums, percussion
• James Stroud – drums
• Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica
• Tom Roady – percussion
• Floyd S. Newman – baritone saxophone
• Jim Horn – saxophones
• James Nelson – saxophones
• Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
• Harvey Thompson – tenor saxophone
• Wayne Jackson – trumpet
• Trinecia Butler – backing vocals
• Wendell Mobley – backing vocals
• John Wesley Ryles – backing vocals
• Cindy Shelton – backing vocals
• Lisa Silver – backing vocals
• Cindy Walker – backing vocals
• Jann Arden – lead and harmony vocals (4)
• Christopher Cross – guest vocals (10)
• Voices on "I Write a Little" by Chris DeCarlo, Greg Fowler, Keith Gale, Sam Harrell, Adrian Michaels, Darcy Miller, Dan Nelson, Mike Siris, Suzette Tucker and Mike Wilson; Military Advisor: LTC James (Jim) E. Pyle U.S. Army (Ret.)

Production

• Alabama – producers (1, 3-9, 11-16)
• Don Cook – producer (1, 8, 12, 14)
• Teddy Gentry – producer (2, 10)
• Randy Owen – producer (2)
• Larry Michael Lee – producer (3, 6, 15)
• Josh Leo – producer (3, 6, 15)
• James Stroud – producer (4, 5, 13)
• Rick Hall – producer (7, 9, 11)
• Michael Omartian – producer (10)
• Hank Williams – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Mary Hamilton – art direction
• Luke Hamilton – design
• Peter Nash – photography

Chart performance

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	US
2000	"When It All Goes South"	15	110
2001	"Will You Marry Me"	41	—
	"The Woman He Loves"	—	—

References

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