History Music / AlanJackson

* BerserkButton: Not really ''berserk'', but Alan gets upset whenever the older generation of country singers are pushed to the side. Most notably, when he performed at the 1999 Country Music Association awards show, one of his idols, GeorgeJones, had been asked to sing only a 90-second version of his hit "Choices". Jones refused and decided not to attend, and when Alan heard about this, he hatched a scheme with his band. When they performed their hit "I'll Go On Loving You", they stopped the song momentarily after the second chorus and played the chorus of "Choices". Jackson then walked offstage and left the building. He later groused that had Jones died in his car accident earlier that year, the CMA's would have run a 15-minute long tribute reel, but instead he lived and they wouldn't give him four minutes.

* 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. It sold poorly and only produced two singles. He returned to his traditional sound starting with ''Good Time'' and ''Freight Train.''

* BigEater: Practically every third song has a reference to what kind of food he likes.

Alan Eugene Jackson was born October 17, 1958 in Newnan, Georgia. started out unassumingly enough in 1989 on Arista Records, which at the time had virtually no experience in the country music business. He was even working with Keith Stegall, a former solo singer with no production experience. Although his debut single "Blue Blooded Woman" flopped, he first cracked the Top 40 in 1990 with "Here in the Real World" and enjoyed nearly 20 years of hits. Coinciding with his departure from Arista, he provided duet vocals on ZacBrownBand's "As She's Walking Away". Jackson has moved to his own label, Alan's Country Records, with distribution by EMI.

Most of Jackson's albums have seen reasonably high sales and accounted for a remarkably consistent string of hits, with little to no compromise on his easygoing musical personality. His accolades include twenty-five Number One singles, fourteen Academy of Country Music awards, twelve Country Music Association awards and a Grammy.

Jackson also co-wrote singles for FaithHill ("I Can't Do That Anymore"), RandyTravis ("I'd Surrender All", "Better Class of Losers"), Clay Walker ("If I Could Make a Living") and ChelyWright ("Til I Was Loved by You").

* RecordProducer: He's worked with Keith Stegall on all but one album (the aforementioned ''Like Red on a Rose'', produced by bluegrass queen [[Music/AlisonKraussAndUnionStation Alison Krauss]]).

* RecordProducer: He's worked with Keith Stegall on all but one album (the aforementioned ''Like Red on a Rose'', produced by bluegrass queen Alison Krauss).

* BerserkButton: Not really ''Berserk'', but Alan gets upset whenever the older generation of country singers are pushed to the side. Most notably, when he performed at the 1999 Country Music Association awards show, one of his idols, GeorgeJones, had been asked to sing only a 90-second version of his hit "Choices". Jones refused and decided not to attend, and when Alan heard about this, he hatched a scheme with his band. When they performed their hit "I'll Go On Loving You", they stopped the song momentarily after the second chorus and played the chorus of "Choices". Jackson then walked offstage and left the building. He later groused that had Jones died in his car accident earlier that year, the CMA's would have run a 15-minute long tribute reel, but instead he lived and they wouldn't give him four minutes.

* LyricalDissonance: "I'll Go On Loving You" is awfully melancholy for a song about how he will still love his woman after he's had sex with her. Really, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong it sounds like a lot like "Suicide Is Painless"]].

** Similarly, the third chorus of "I Still Like Bologna" changes "the sound of a whippoorwhill down a country road" to "…a Chevelle headin' down a gravel road".

!Tropes present:

* LyricSwap: "Where I Come From" can't seem to make up its mind whether a line in the chorus is about picking or sitting on the front or back porch.

All of Jackson's albums have seen reasonably high sales and accounted for a remarkably consistent string of hits, with little to no compromise on his easygoing musical personality. His accolades include twenty-five Number One singles, fourteen Academy of Country Music awards, twelve Country Music Association awards and a Grammy.

* LyricalShoehorn: Pretty much all of the last two verses of "Where I Come From", which are composed of awkward phrasings and {{Painful Rhyme}}s that barely make sense (for instance, "use my finger" is how he describes hitchhiking).

* SignatureSong: "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 JimmyBuffett.

* HeavyMeta: Besides the three-minute example listed below, this is also present in "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues," where songwriting is compared to fixing a car.

Alan Eugene Jackson was born October 17, 1958 in Newnan, Georgia. started out unassumingly enough in 1989 on Arista Records, which at the time had virtually no experience in the country music business. He was even working with Keith Stegall, a former solo singer with no production experience. Although his debut single "Blue Blooded Woman" flopped, he first cracked the Top 40 in 1990 with "Here in the Real World" and enjoyed nearly 20 years of hits. His most recent big hit, "As She's Walking Away", was a guest appearance on a ZacBrownBand song that coincided with Alan's leaving Arista.

Jackson also co-wrote singles for FaithHill ("I Can't Do That Anymore"), RandyTravis ("I'd Surrender All", "Better Class of Losers") Clay Walker ("If I Could Make a Living") and ChelyWright ("Til I Was Loved by You").

* NewSoundAlbum: 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.''

* LyricalDissonance: "I'll Go On Loving You" is awfully melancholy for a song about how he will still love his woman after he's had sex with her. Really, it sounds like a JimmyHartVersion of "Suicide Is Painless".

* LyricalDissonance: "I'll Go On Loving You" is awfully melancholy for a song about how he will still love his woman after he's had sex with her.

* LyricalShoehorn: Pretty much the last two verses of "Where I Come From", which are composed of awkward phrasings and {{Painful Rhyme}}s that barely make sense (for instance, "use my finger" is how he describes hitchhiking).

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