Alabama Performed With Mark Herndon For First Time In Two Decades was a top 25 story of Aug 2025 in our look back at the Year In Rock. Here is the original report: (AP) History was made at the Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama on August 23 when iconic country band Alabama surprised the SOLD OUT crowd with a very special guest appearance. Before the last song, lead singer Randy Owen welcomed Mark Herndon, the band’s original drummer, to the stage.
Herndon was invited by the band to perform on “Mountain Music,” complete with his trademark drum solo, marking his first appearance with Alabama in over two decades.
“It just fell together,” Alabama’s Teddy Gentry explains. “The good Lord blesses us sometimes to do things that we can’t do. All we can do is kind of be in the wings and kind of hope for things. Like I said, we make plans, and he laughs. But there’s nothing he can’t do.”…