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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.
Alan Jackson
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Alan Jackson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
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Alan Eugene Jackson
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