Alan Jackson is BACK with a new album filled with all the things we truest love about country music. Especially the fact, this album is the first true country albums released in years and has 15 tracks written/co written by the Country Music Legend. WHERE HAVE YOU GONE is already being raved by fans with the five songs already released off the upcoming album which is due to release May 14th.
Alan Jackson released one of the new songs, “You’ll Always Be My Baby (Written for Daughters’ Weddings)” listen HERE. Penned solely by the Hall of Fame songwriter, Jackson shares, “I wrote the song for Mattie’s wedding the summer of 2017, but it was so hard to do. I told ’em, ‘I wrote this for allof you,’” referencing his three daughters, Mattie, Ali, and Dani.
“You’ll Always Be My Baby (Written for Daughters’ Weddings)” is the latest track off Jackson’s upcoming May 14album, Where Have You Gone. The iconic songwriter wrote 15 songs on the highly anticipated 21-song collection including the recently released tracks “Where Have You Gone” and “Way Down in My Whiskey.” Fans can listen to all three of those titles along with the poignant “Things That Matter” HERE and pre-order Where Have You Gone HERE.
Jackson is also set to perform “You’ll Always Be My Baby (Written for Daughters’ Weddings)” in a special mashup with his quintessential country hit “Drive (For Daddy Gene)” on the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards this Sunday, April 18 on CBS.
A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and an inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Alan Jackson’s membership among music’s all-time greats is part of a long line of career-defining accolades that include three CMA Entertainer of the Year honors, 30 years of membership in the Grand Ole Opry, a Billboard ranking as one of the Top 10 Country Artists of All-Time, induction to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Heritage Award as the most-performed country songwriter-artist of ASCAP’s first 100 years.
The man from rural Newnan, GA has sold nearly 60-million albums worldwide, ranks as one of the 10 best-selling male vocalists of all-time (rock, pop and country). He has released more than 60 singles – registering 50 Top Ten hits and 35 #1s (including 26 Billboard chart-toppers). He has earned more than 150 major music industry awards – including 19 Academy of Country Music Awards, 16 Country Music Association Awards, a pair of Grammys and ASCAP’s Founders and Golden Note Awards.
Jackson is one of the most successful and respected singer-songwriters in music. He’s also the man behind one of Nashville’s most-popular tourist stops, AJ’s Good Time Bar, a four-story honky-tonk in the heart of downtown featuring daily live music and a rooftop view of Music City.
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