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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 more than 40 million albums with 30 quantity 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 assisted him jumpstart his career.

His initial album, 1990's Here in the Genuine 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 Tiny 'Bout Adore) was a smash good results, spawning five main singles with "Chattahoochee" getting the most enduring and profitable. Right after a handful of a lot more hit albums, Jackson once more rocketed to fame with "Where Have been You (When the Planet 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".

Even though 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 "Right here In The Actual Planet". He has sung with George Jones on the award-winning "I Never Need Your Rockin' Chair" and "A Good Year for the Roses." His sense of humor comes by way of in "Gone Nation" 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 nation/The complete world's gone country." He has been credited for popularizing a Neotraditional Nation 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)

Valuable Memories (2006)

and several a lot more

He has received several awards like :

Grammy sward for Greatest Country Song "Exactly where Have been You (When The World Stopped Turning)" 2002

Entertainer of the Year 1995

All time winner: Single of the Year 2005

Album of the Year, Frequent Threads: The Songs of the Eagles 1994

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