Alan Jackson has announced that he will conclude his farewell tour with one final all-star concert taking place in Nashville next year. Set for June 27, 2026, the concert — dubbed Last Call: One More for the Road – The Finale at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium — has already enlisted an …
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Alan Jackson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th ACM Awards. The “Chattahoochee” singer is the inaugural recipient of the honor, which will immediately become known as the ACM Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award. According to the Academy of Country Music, the award recognizes “an iconic artist, duo, …
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Two Step Inn will return in 2025 with headlining performances from Alan Jackson and Sturgill Simpson. The Georgetown, Texas music festival will be held on April 5 and 6 at San Gabriel Park for the third consecutive year with more than 35 scheduled performances. Jackson will lead the first day …
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Country songs about dads watching their daughters getting married and —as Hank Hill once put it —“feeling emotions” constitute a mini-genre at this point, from Heartland’s “I Loved Her First” to Alan Jackson‘s “You’ll Always Be My Baby.” Country newcomer Post Malone became the latest contributor to that micro-canon this …
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Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Zac Brown Band, and Mac MacAnally all took the stage at the 2023 CMA Awards to celebrate the music of Jimmy Buffett, who died earlier this year. Chesney and MacAnally, a longtime member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, kicked things off with a faithful acoustic rendition …
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Today’s country artists love to namecheck icons like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings in their songs and during interviews. But sonically, they owe their greatest debt to Jimmy Buffett, whose tropical vibes, beachy imagery, and ocean escapism has shaped the last two decades of mainstream country. Buffett died …
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Jon Pardi received a surprise during his Stagecoach set Friday as, while onstage, he was invited to become an official member of the Grand Ole Opry, by way of Flavortown. Guy Fieri, Mr. Triple D himself, was on hand at the Indio, California festival and took to the stage to …
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CMT’s Artists of the Year special honored relative upstarts like Cody Johnson, Carly Pearce, and Lainey Wilson earlier this week in Nashville, but it was Alan Jackson, the show’s Artist of a Lifetime recipient, who showed them all how it was done. Jackson, a Country Music Hall of Fame member, …
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Alan Jackson is calling for one more celebratory round with his new headlining tour Last Call: One More for the Road Tour, which gets underway in June. Spanning 16 dates in total, the trek launches June 24 in Biloxi, Mississippi, and runs all the way to its Oct. 8 finish …
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