Alabama 3 Exile on Coldharbour Lane

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Mixing country, blues and acid house, Alabama 3 formed after Rob Spragg and Jake Black met at a party in Peckham, South London. They christened their new band First Presleyterian Church of Elvis The Divine before renaming themselves Alabama 3. They signed to One Little Indian in 1997 and released their debut album Exile On Coldharbour Lane the same year. The dissolute genre-mashing Brixton troupe's defining moment, Exile on Coldharbour Lane fused acid house and rock and roll to spectacular effect. The track "Woke Up This Morning" became the theme music to the legendary HBO series Sopranos.

"The whiskey-smooth vocals of Larry Love - part cowboy and part pimp - are at their best on a cover of John Prine's 'Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness'. It's 'Mao Tse Tung Said', though, that's their finest moment, vicious in its attack of the 'change must come through the barrel of a gun' slogan and intrusively, intelligently insidious." - NME