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Alan Jackson Biography

Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country singer and songwriter. He is known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded 16 studio albums, three greatest hits albums, two Christmas albums, two gospel albums and several compilations.

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Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.

Keep, Long, Love, Night, Sight, Though

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

Baby, Strong, Jugs, Love, Hooked

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

Played, Radio, Song, Songs, Support

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

Alcohol, Drug, Tonight, Designated, Drinker

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

Album, Song, Songs, Thinking, Write, Writing

The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

Buy, Cds, Come, Digital, Walmart, Years

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.

Daughter, Mother, Say, Song, Write, Yeah

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

Baby, Boy, Boys, Four, Live, Women

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.

Half, Hear, Singing, Song

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

Fancy, Like, People, Wife

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Albums, Hit, Long, Radio, Retirement, Retiring

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Fire, Keeps, Music, Music Is, Stills

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

Felt, Grew, Grew Up, Needed, Young

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

Fans, Like, Make, Thinking, Trying

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

Alcohol, Care, Hurricane, Make, Past, Strong

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.

Criticism, Think, Thinking, Time, Trying, Willing

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

Children, Know, People, Politics, Rejoice

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?

Blue, Down, Neighbor, Sight, Sky

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

Albums, Gospel, Hounding, Mom, Mother

You just write about things that happen.

Happen, Happens, Things, Write, Writing

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