History Music / AlanJackson

* TakeThat: "Murder on Music Row," his duet with Music/GeorgeStrait, decrise the crossover-happy country music climate of the TurnOfTheMillennium.

* DrinkingMySorrows: "Jim and Jack and Hank" is about a man who has just been abandoned by his wife, but decides that he's going to be fine because he's got alcohol and country music.[[note]]"Jim" and "Jack" respectively refers to Jim Beam and Jack Daniels whiskey. While Hank refers to Music/HankWilliams.[[/note]]

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Lampshaded on the back of his ''Who I Am'' album. The track numbers skip from 12 to 14, with a note saying, "That's right folks, I am just a tad superstitious. - AJ"

* TheSomethingSong: "Three Minute Positive Not-Too-Country Up-Tempo Love Song". Also an example of AntiLoveSong, RunningTimeInTheTitle, HeavyMeta, LongTitle and ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* SomethingBlues: "Mercury Blues," "Summertime Blues," "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues".

* NiceHat: He always wears a cowboy hat.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: 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, sold poorly, and only produced two singles. He returned to his traditional sound starting with ''Good Time''.

* TruckDriversGearChange: A few occasions: "Remember When" begins in G, modulates down to C for a solo, and then goes up to A for the final verses. "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues" does the half-step-by-verse variant, going from D to E-flat to E. He also wrote Music/ClayWalker's "If I Could Make a Living", which begins in F, then repeats the chorus in G and again in A at the end.

-->'''Jimmy''': Funny you should ask, Alan.

-->'''Alan''': I could pay off my tab, pour myself in a cab\\
And be back to work before two\\
At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder\\
What would Music/JimmyBuffett do?\\

* LyricalShoehorn: Pretty much all of the last two verses of "Where I Come From", which are composed of awkward phrasings and rhymes that barely make sense (for instance, "lost a universal joint and had to use my finger" -- possibly dialing a phone for help or hitchhiking?).

** Possibly as a tribute to the various "line dance" remixes of TheNineties, "Good Time" got a "Too Hot to Fish" remix that amped up the rhythm section and restored one of the two verses cut out of the radio edit.

* RewindGag: The last minute of the "Like Red on a Rose" music video is just the rest of the video rewinding.

* TakeThat: "Murder on Music Row," his duet with Music/GeorgeStrait, is a slam of the crossover-happy country music climate of the TurnOfTheMillennium.

-->''I could pay off my tab, pour myself in a cab\\

What would Music/JimmyBuffett do?''
** And then [[TheCameo Jimmy answers.]]

* {{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 "damn" is usually considered acceptable on country radio, the line still became "both know too well" on the radio edit.

* CoverAlbum: ''Under the Influence.''
* TheCoverChangesTheGender: The original version of "Who's Cheatin' Who" was from a female perspective. Jackson, obviously, changed it to a male's.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: According to the liner notes of his first GreatestHitsAlbum, Jackson thought that "Chattahoochee" was too dependent on a localized reference (the Chattahoochee River on the Alabama/Georgia border) to become a hit. His worries were for naught, as it was a #1 smash and the biggest country song of 1993.

* RearrangeTheSong: Possibly as a tribute to the various "line dance" remixes of TheNineties, "Good Time" got a "Too Hot to Fish" remix that amped up the rhythm section and restored one of the two verses cut out of the radio edit.
* RecordProducer: He's worked with Keith Stegall on all but one album (the aforementioned ''Like Red on a Rose'', produced by bluegrass queen Music/{{Alison Krauss|And Union Station}}). Scott Hendricks (Restless Heart, Music/BlakeShelton) co-produced the first two and "Tonight I Climbed the Wall" off the third, and his nephew Adam Wright co-produced his 2013 bluegrass album.
* RereleaseTheSong:
** Alan wanted to release "Home" off his first album, but decided against it because there was another song out by Music/JoeDiffie that had the same title. The original recording ended up as a BSide for several other singles before finally getting released off a GreatestHitsAlbum in 1996.

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Lampshaded on the back of his ''Who I Am'' album. The track numbers skip from 12 to 14, with a note saying:
-->''That's right folks, I am just a tad superstitious. - AJ''

* VocalEvolution: His voice has gotten a little deeper and less whiny with time. As of "Long Way to Go" (his first release for EMI), his voice seems to have also gotten weaker, as it has less force and a narrower range.