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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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Alan Jackson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
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I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.
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If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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Flesh is weak, but love is strong.
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I 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. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. 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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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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I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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He's written some great songs. I thought that Blues Man was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
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