SHE SAID ONE LINE — AND IT BECAME A LOVE SONG FOR THE AGES It was a warm Georgia night in 1981. The crowd had gone home, and Randy Owen stepped outside just to breathe. Sitting on a pickup tailgate was a girl in a denim jacket, softly humming one of Alabama’s songs. She looked up, smiled, and said, “Your music makes falling in love feel like a crime.” Randy laughed — but he never forgot those words. Hours later, somewhere on the road to Birmingham, he scribbled in his notebook: “I once thought of love as a prison…” That line became “Love in the First Degree.” A song not about heartbreak — but surrender. About the beautiful danger of loving someone with no defense left. And even now, when it plays, you can still feel that spark from one small-town night that changed everything.
Introduction: She uttered a single line—and it transformed into a timeless love song.It was the spring of 1981. After a performance in…