Filed under: Country News
Alan Jackson is credited with being one of today’s main forces in traditional country music. His well-crafted songs about love of family and country have touched the hearts of millions of fans around the world. But even Alan was surprised to learn that two of rock ‘n roll’s superstars are fans of his music.
“I know I do have fans who are celebrities and who perform other kinds of music,” the Georgia native tells The Boot. “Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) came to a couple of my shows, and even brought his children when they were younger. One time I had this bus driver and his friend drove Alice Cooper’s bus. He told my driver that they listened to my music going down the road.”
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Alan Jackson has added several tour dates to his summer itinerary.
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So great are his powers of self-effacement that Alan Jackson often seems a bystander in his own music videos. It’s not that he’s camera shy — he’s made more than 40 videos — it’s just that he’s a master at directing our attention elsewhere.
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Filed under: Story Behind the Song
Alan Jackson talked to The Boot about the tragic inspiration behind his latest hit.
I wrote it for a girl that worked for us who died. She was a lady that looked after the whole house. Leslie Fitzgerald was her real name, but we called her Sissy. She had an accident on a motorcycle. She was 40-something. She was just somebody who was in our house everyday … then all of a sudden [she was] gone. When people get old, you expect them to die, but it’s different when they are young and it’s tragic like that.
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