Alan Jackson: Difference between revisions

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* [[Album Title Drop]]: ''A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love)'' is named for a line in "Chattahoochee".

* [[Big Eater]]: Practically every third song has a reference to what kind of food he likes.

* [[Bowdlerize]]: "I'll Try" opens with the line "Here we are, talkin' bout forever / Both know damn well it's not easy together". Even though it wasn't his first time swearing in song, the "damn" became a "too" on the radio edit.

* [[Rerelease the Song]]: Alan wanted to release "Home" off his first album, but decided against it because there was another song out that had the same title. The original recording was finally released as a single from a [[Greatest Hits Album]] in 1996. Later on, he re-recorded "A Woman's Love", originally from 1998's ''High Mileage'', and released the re-recording from 2007's ''Like Red on a Rose''.

* [[Repurposed Pop Song]]: His version of "Mercury Blues" was rewritten to be about Ford trucks and used in mid-nineties Ford commercials.

* [[Signature Song]]: "Don't Rock the Jukebox," "Chattahoochee," "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," "Drive (For Daddy Gene)," "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere." The last one is a duet with [[Jimmy Buffett]].

* [[Something Blues]]: "Mercury Blues," "Summertime Blues," "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues".

* [[Something Completely Different]]: Alan tried this twice in 2006, releasing a gospel album and a more adult contemporary-sounding album within a few months. The gospel album was only a side project, and the latter (''Like Red on a Rose'') was... met with mixed reviews in comparison to his previous work. It sold poorly and only produced two singles. He returned to his traditional sound starting with ''Good Time'' and ''Freight Train.''

* [[Take That]]: "Murder on Music Row," his duet with [[George Strait]], is a big [[Take That]] to the crossover-happy country music climate of the early aughties.

* [[The Cover Changes the Gender]]: The original version of "Who's Cheatin' Who" was from a female perspective. Jackson, obviously, changed it to a male's.