Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson was born in Georgia, in 1958...and is a well-known neo traditionalist country singer. His family was not well off…. He sang in church as a child and his family listened mainly to gospel music.   He started his own band, soon after high school and married... In the mid-1980s, He and his wife Denise moved to Nashville….  He found a job in the Nashville Network’s mailroom and his wife happened to meet Glen Campbell…

Glen helped him to get a start in the music business.  He got a contract with a record company... and as the 1990s progressed, he became more and more successful.  In the early 2000's he and George Strait performed "Murder Down in Music Row" which was something of a cut at the record company executives who were moving from "real" old fashioned country music to commercialised pop and rock country which had little to do with the genre's orgins.