If you missed Alan Jackson and his all-star bluegrass band last night on The Late Show with David Letterman – or just want to watch it again – the video is here!
Alan Jackson brought his bluegrass flair and country fan base to New York’s Carnegie Hall last night (October 28) for a substantial, crowd-pleasing two-hour set that was full of emotion, and contained a few surprises as well.
Alan performs Tuesday on Late Show With David Letterman and next week on CMA Awards.
The Bluegrass Album will be featured on SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction this week.
“Blacktop” enters the weekly Bluegrass Today chart (dated October 11) as the most-played bluegrass song in America based on airplay compiled from the contributing radio panel.
Fans can now enjoy two music videos from country music singer-songwriter Alan Jackson’s new release, The Bluegrass Album. The video for “Blue Ridge Mountain Song” can be seen on CMT and GAC and online via VEVO. The video for “Blacktop” can be viewed via VEVO.
Alan sounds right at home, singing with enough ease and confidence to indicate that he could have been a bluegrass stalwart had he chosen that particular direction.
MerleFest, presented by Lowe’s and slated for April 24-27, 2014, kicks off its 27th year with the announcement that country superstar Alan Jackson will be part of the festival’s Thursday schedule.
The album is already generating substantial talk in the music world, with Rolling Stone recognizing that “…The Bluegrass Album is a labor of love, not a vanity project for the singer.” NPR calls Jackson’s performance of the music “…openly emotional…”...
All of the Jackson-penned songs have some great lines in them, but two in particular – “Appalachian Mountain Girl’’ and “Blue Ridge Mountain Song’’ – go beyond mere lyric and become absolute poetry, almost to the point of a hillbilly Shakespeare.
Earlier this week, Nashville’s iconic Station Inn was taken over by Alan Jackson and his people for two days of rehearsals, sound checks, and video shoots, followed by a concert Tuesday night. The focus was his upcoming September release, titled simply Th
Last night was a big gig for Alan Jackson. At Nashville's Station Inn club, a tiny hole in the wall that's a veritable CBGB's for bluegrass music, Jackson debuted his first ever bluegrass album (appropriately titled The Bluegrass Album, due September 24)
