After decades of shaping the sound of American country music and carrying the spirit of the South to every corner of the nation, the legendary band Alabama is returning to where it all began: the town of Fort Payne, Alabama — not to debut a new song, but to fulfill an old promise to those who’ve stood by them from the very beginning.
On August 30, at the Sand Mountain Amphitheater, Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry — the two remaining founding members — will take the stage in their only Fort Payne performance of 2025.
For many, this isn’t just another concert.
It’s a musical pilgrimage.
It’s where parents once brought their kids to sing along to Dixieland Delight under the summer moonlight.
Where young couples first held hands as Feels So Right played from the radio of an old pickup truck.
Where grandparents, parents, and now grandchildren all come together to sing Angels Among Us during life’s most tender moments.
Alabama is more than music.
They are memories.
They are home.
They are a living part of the South’s collective heart.
And now, after all these years, they’re coming back — not to prove anything, but simply to say thank you.
✨ “We’ve always carried Fort Payne in our hearts, no matter where we’ve gone,” Randy Owen once said. “Because real music didn’t start in Nashville… it started in a small house, with the first guitar my daddy gave me, and with neighbors listening through the windows as I sang.”
