Mar 16, 2001

Alabama guitar player Jeff Cook opens a new restaurant, Jeff Cook's Warehouse, in Gadsden, Alabama. It closes less than three years later

Apr 25, 2001

Alabama donates $100,000 from its June Jam fund-raising concerts to the school system of Fort Payne, Alabama

Jan 18, 2002

Country artists visit patients at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis en masse. On hand: Alabama, Brad Paisley, Lonestar, Keith Urban, SHeDAISY, Steve Holy and Trick Pony

May 3, 2002

Alabama's Jeff Cook performs on the ABC-TV special "American Bandstand's 50th... A Celebration!," with Mick Fleetwood, Johnny Rivers, bass player Stanley Clarke, Billy Preston, the Chicago horn section and Jane Wiedlin, of The Go-Go's

May 22, 2002

Alabama announces during the Academy of Country Music Awards that it intends to retire after a 2003 farewell tour

Oct 31, 2002

Fifteen years after its release, Alabama's "Just Us" earns a platinum album from the Recording Industry Association of America

Dec 31, 2002

Alabama kicks off the American Farewell Tour at the Aladdin in Las Vegas

Jan 13, 2003

The Dixie Chicks take two trophies at the 30th annual American Music Awards. Tim McGraw, Martina McBride and Carolyn Dawn Johnson also win, while Alabama receives the Award of Merit during the event at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium

Feb 4, 2003

RCA releases the two-CD Alabama compilation "In The Mood: The Love Songs"

Mar 16, 2003

Alabama performs at Reliant Stadium during the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. Concert-goers include former president George Bush