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
song men working-man
I've had several working-man songs that I like.
song writing people
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
song past done
I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
song men perfect
He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
song singing half
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
song thinking mixtures
I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.
song writing together
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
daughter mother song
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.
song nashville forever
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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.
thinking trying criticism
You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
years lasts mature
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.