My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
ALAN JACKSONI 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.
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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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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.
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All you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there.
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He’s written some great songs. I thought that “Blues Man” was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
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The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don’t need, what wears you out and what’s important.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much.
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It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
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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.
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You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones.
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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