Bass player Teddy Gentry, a founding member of the Grammy-winning country band Alabama, was arrested Monday and charged with a misdemeanor drug offense in the state the band shares a name with, jail records show.
Gentry, 70, was booked on suspicion of unlawful possession of marijuana in the second degree and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama.
He was booked into the Cherokee County Detention Center at 10:38 a.m. Monday and released at 11:06 a.m., records showed.
Gentry could not be reached for comment Tuesday at phone numbers associated with his home in nearby DeKalb County, Fort Payne.
A representative of both Gentry and the band wouldn’t comment on the arrest Tuesday but said it wouldn’t affect the group’s coming tour.
Its next performance is scheduled for September 23 at Ball Arena in Denver. Colorado is well-known for being one of the first states to legalise recreational marijuana use.
Alabama, which had been performing for decades, was at its peak in the early and mid-1980s, winning the Country Music Awards’ vocal group of the year award from 1981 to 1983.
It won the CMA’s album of the year award in 1983 for “The Closer You Get.” The song also earned the group a Grammy in 1984 for best country performance by a duo or group. Alabama won in the same category the previous year for “Mountain Music.”
The band was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
Till Then, keep yourself updated with all the latest news from our website dailyrealtime.com.
