Reckless (Alabama song) - Misplaced Pages

"Reckless" is a song written by Michael Clark and Jeff Stevens, and recorded by American country music group Alabama. It was released in August 1993 as the first single from their album, Cheap Seats. The song was their final number one the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart until June 2011, when they reached the number one position again with a guest vocal on Brad Paisley's "Old Alabama".

Content

The song's narrator wants to take his lover in his Thunderbird, and wants for him and her to forget and care less about their current lives and live and love recklessly.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song unfavorably, saying that it is a "recycled, B-movie Bruce tune." She goes on to say that if Alabama keeps recording songs like these than the band "might as well go ahead and change its name to New Jersey."

Chart positions

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)	1
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)	23
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)	15

Chart (1994)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)	78

References

Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
Alabama – Reckless Hot Country Songs
Billboard, September 4, 1993
"Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2310." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. November 27, 1993. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
"Alabama Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.
"Alabama Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
"RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1993". RPM. December 18, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
"RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1994". RPM. December 12, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013.

v t e Alabama 1990–2011 singles
Pass It On Down	"Pass It On Down" "Jukebox in My Mind" "Forever's as Far as I'll Go" "Down Home" "Here We Are"
Greatest Hits Vol. II	"Then Again" "Born Country"
American Pride	"Take a Little Trip" "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)" "Once Upon a Lifetime" "Hometown Honeymoon"
Cheap Seats	"Reckless" "T.L.C. A.S.A.P." "The Cheap Seats"
Greatest Hits Vol. III	"We Can't Love Like This Anymore" "Give Me One More Shot"
In Pictures	"She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl" "In Pictures" "It Works" "The Maker Said Take Her"
Dancin' on the Boulevard	"Sad Lookin' Moon" "Dancin', Shaggin' on the Boulevard" "Of Course I'm Alright" "She's Got That Look in Her Eyes"
For the Record	"How Do You Fall in Love" "Keepin' Up"
Twentieth Century	"God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" "Small Stuff"
When It All Goes South	"When It All Goes South"
Other singles	"Sweet Home Alabama" "Angels Among Us" "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" "Old Alabama"

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