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Alan Jackson born on October 17, 1958 is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the one of the best-selling country musicians of the 1990s and has sold over 40 million albums with 30 number 1 hits. Jackson is originally from Newnan, Georgia. He previously worked in The Nashville Network's mailroom. Jackson's wife Denise got him connected to Glen Campbell, who helped him jumpstart his career.

His first album, 1990's Here in the Real World, was a major hit, as was his second (1991) album, Don't Rock the Jukebox. His 1992 release, A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'Bout Love) was a smash success, spawning five major singles with "Chattahoochee" being the most enduring and successful. After a few more hit albums, Jackson again rocketed to fame with "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," a song about the September 11, 2001 attacks, which became a hit single and briefly propelled him into the mainstream spotlight; the song was even the subject of parody on the popular animated series South Park, in the episode "A Ladder To Heaven".

Although Jackson has been characterized as a "hat act", his influences go deep into the roots of country music and his songs have been recorded by some of the greats like Charley Pride, who recorded "Here In The Real World". He has sung with George Jones on the award-winning "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" and "A Good Year for the Roses." His sense of humor comes through in "Gone Country" with the satirical description of the wannabes who cynically jumped on the country music bandwagon in the 1990s: "Everybody's gone country/Yeah we've gone country/The whole world's gone country." He has been credited for popularizing a Neotraditional Country sound.

Alan's band is named the Stray Horns.
Some of Alan Jackson Albums are :
•Drive (2002)
•Let It Be Christmas (2002)
•Greatest Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff (2003)
•What I Do (2004)
•Precious Memories (2006)
•and many more
He has received many awards like :
•Grammy sward for Best Country Song "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)" 2002
•Entertainer of the Year 1995
•All time winner: Single of the Year 2005
•Album of the Year, Common Threads: The Songs of the Eagles 1994
•and many more

Nashville star Alan Jackson has been a key figure in the contemporary country music industry for the past few decades as the standout guitarist, vocalist and songwriter has garnered 16 trophies from the Country Music Association, 15 from the Academy of Country Music and is rounding 50 Top 10 hits over the course of his monumental music career. This year has been an absolute milestone for Jackson, who was recently recognized for selling 50 million copies of his hit albums, and now Nashville is smearing the icing on Jackson's celebratory cake by recognizing him as a CMT Giant, airing a 90-minute television special exclusively about the artist.

Country Music Television's “CMT Giants: Alan Jackson” is set to air this weekend, and the program features George Strait, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Martina McBride and other country music artists singing Jackson's songs and praises while providing interviews to honor the great Alan Jackson, with other public figures such as Hank Williams Jr., George Jones, Diane Sawyer, Carrie Underwood and President George W. Bush in the wings. Jackson was honored as a CMT Giant in October at Ryman Auditorium, becoming the third country music artist of all time to receive the achievement award (behind Hank Williams Jr. and Reba McEntire).

Following closely behind his newest smash singles “Good Time” and “Small Town Southern Man,” this CMT honor is continuing to pass the torch of success for Jackson right on through the rest of the 2000s, making Alan Jackson one of the most celebrated names to ever grace the Nashville scene. Taking a glance at the exquisite singer's repertoire, however, it's obvious the country music star has come a long way from his first charting hit, the single “Blue Blooded Woman.” The year was 1989 and Jackson, the Newnan, Georgia native, had worked his way out of various odd jobs such as car salesman and fork lift operator to concentrate on his music, making the rounds in Nashville and finally squeezing his way into the studios at Arista's new country division. “Blue Blooded Woman” led Jackson's debut album Here in the Real World by the hand, and soon thereafter the blonde-headed, moustache-faced freewheeling musician had landed his first Top Five hit with “Chasin' That Neon Rainbow.”

After the smoke was cleared from “Chasin' That Neon Rainbow,” Alan Jackson sped off into the musical oblivion, flying through the rest of the ‘90s with smash singles and albums, earning a name among Nashville's brightest stars such as Hank Williams, Randy Travis and Garth Brooks. Energetic anthems like “Summertime Blues,” “I Don't Even Know Your Name” and the all-time honky-tonk favorite “Gone Country” propelled the Alan Jackson train through the mid-to-late-‘90s, and all sorts of fans jumped on his bandwagon after the vocalist released his 1999 covers album Under the Influence that paid tribute to some of traditional country music heavyweights such as Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Hank Williams, Jr. and Don Williams. In 2001, Jackson recorded a heartfelt tribute to post-9/11 America with the single “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” and since then the fun-loving vocalist has continued rocking American music spanning multiple genres with songs like “Drive (For Daddy Gene)” and the Jimmy Buffett duet “It's Five O'Clock Somewhere.”

Currently having a “G with an O, O with a D, T with an I and an M and an E” with his newest single “Good Time,” Alan Jackson has been spending as much time on the road lately as he has on the Billboard charts. If you haven't seen this living legend perform his energetic country anthems live, check http://www.stubhub.com/alan-jackson-tickets for Alan Jackson tickets and have yourself a boot-stompin' good time with this incredible ‘small town Southern man.'

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