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Behind the Song

How Exile’s “The Closer You Get” Traveled to Alabama

A drive-through billboard gave J.P. Pennington the title. He and Mark Gray gave Exile a song that traveled through Don King and Rita Coolidge before becoming an Alabama No. 1.