A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…
ALAN JACKSONI 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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“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.
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Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?
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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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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
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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.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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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.
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Half of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.
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I’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.
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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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You just write about things that happen.
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There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
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You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy.
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