Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson is an American country singer and songwriter, born in Georgia in 1958, the youngest of five children and the only son, raised in a house built around his grandfather's tool shed. He moved to Nashville in the mid-eighties and became the standard-bearer for neotraditional country: steel guitar, plain arrangements, and songs he wrote himself, at exactly the moment the format was moving the other way. He has recorded twenty-one studio albums and is in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
TV (6)
Music (16)
- Drive (2002)
- Who I Am (1994)
- A Lot About Livin’ (and a Little ’Bout Love) (1992)
- Angels and Alcohol (2015)
- Good Time (2008)
- When Somebody Loves You (2000)
- High Mileage (1998)
- Everything I Love (1996)
- Honky Tonk Christmas (1993)
- Don’t Rock the Jukebox (1991)
- Here in the Real World (1990)
- Thirty Miles West (2012)
- What I Do (2004)
- Under the Influence (1999)
- Like Red on a Rose (2006)
- Greatest Hits, Volume II (2003)
Where to start with Alan Jackson
Here in the Real World is the debut and announces the whole approach. Don’t Rock the Jukebox makes the argument for traditional country as a hit single. A Lot About Livin’ (and a Little ’Bout Love) is the commercial peak, Everything I Love is the best written of them, and Angels and Alcohol is the strong late album.
The early neotraditional records
Four albums in five years that made the case for steel guitar and fiddle at exactly the moment Nashville was moving toward rock production. Don't Rock the Jukebox states the argument outright, and A Lot About Livin' is where it sold ten million copies.
The mid-career albums
The run where the writing got better and the sales stayed enormous. Under the Influence is the covers record and the clearest statement of who he thinks he descends from. Drive contains the song about September 11th that he wrote and did not want to release.