Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jacksonis an American singer, songwriter and musician, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 15 studio albums, three Greatest Hits albums, two Christmas albums, two Gospel albums and several compilations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth17 October 1958
CityNewnan, GA
CountryUnited States of America
love night sight
Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.
sight blue sky
Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?
building played sounds
I've played this thing as long as I can remember, I guess. I'll tell you what ? this building sounds a lot better than the other one.
benefit country opry reaches red
Country Reaches Out: An Opry Benefit for the American Red Cross,
bad came cynical good hear people refreshing saw stuff thousand
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.
american-musician character fan overlook party people
I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.
anybody apply daughter knew life listen song specific wrote
'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.
acoustic couple harmony loose mom organ piano picked
We had about 30 songs. I picked some I thought my mom would really like and some I liked. We went in with piano and acoustic guitar, and overdubbed organ on some of them, and a couple harmony vocals. We were just really loose with it.
problem
It's not their problem - it's our problem.
song men working-man
I've had several working-man songs that I like.
song writing thinking
I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.
littles energy should
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
oklahoma
Oklahoma's always been good to me.
home years time-away
If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.