Alabama 3 celebrate their 20th birthday with a tour that kicks off in the Belfast Limelight (November 11) and the Dublin Academy (12) before heading to their native Blighty.
Note that it’s the full Bammy-whammy rather than the slimmed-down acoustic version of the band that’s been seen in Ireland recently.
Along with all their live faves, they’ll be plugging studio album number 14, Blues, which is out in September.
“Twenty years and still standing, standing on the edge, on the point of no return,” they reflect. “None of us are dead, which has surprised us more than it has you.”
We still remember catching them for the first time all those years ago in Whelan’s and being blown away by a little ditty called ‘Woke Up This Morning’. Little did we, or they, know where it was going to take them.