“Sweet country music, where have you gone?”
Funny you should ask, Alan…
Nineties country legend, mustache afficaniado, and depending on who you talk to… the damn GOAT of country music, Mr. Alan Jackson has a brand new album on the way, one affectionately titled, Where Have You Gone.
What’s the something that’s missing in that title? Classic country music.
Loretta Lynn, Martina McBride, Alan Jackson, and anybody will half a brain knows country music, or at least that stuff coming out of mainstream country radio, is pretty much dogshit. Don’t get me wrong, there’s some good stuff here and there, but overall… big pile of dogshit.
So much so, that Alan Jackson named his upcoming album, Where Have You Gone, after the sad state of country radio.
In a new interview with The Tennessean, Alan Jackson laments the current state of country music:
“I’m such a fan of country music. I just feel like it’s fading away, the real roots.
It’s always been up and down but usually there’s just a little bit of it hanging on. Now, I just feel like it’s getting further and further away, and it’s makin’ me sad.”
Sad is an understatement Alan…
Thankfully though, Alan is coming to the rescue with a 21-song album of solid country gold.
The album features a couple of wedding tracks dedicated to his daughters, one dedicated to his late mother, a “That’s The Way Love Goes” tribute to Merle Haggard, and “The Older I Get,” which Alan released back in 2017.
When you ask? TOMORROW.
Get excited… Alan is bringing country BACK.
Where Have You Gone Tracklist:
1. Where Have You Gone
2. Wishful Drinkin’
3. I Can Be Something
4. Where The Cottonwood Grows
5. Way Down In My Whiskey
6. Things That Matter
7. Livin’ On Empty
8. You’ll Always Be My Baby (Written for Daughters’ Weddings)
9. Where Her Heart Has Always Been (Written for Mama’s funeral with an old recording of her reading from the Bible)
10. The Boot
11. Back
12. Write It in Red
13. So Late So Soon
14. This Heart Of Mine
15. A Man Who Never Cries
16. Chain
17. I Was Tequila
18. I Do (Written for Daughters’ Weddings)
19. That’s The Way Love Goes (A Tribute To Merle Haggard)
20. Beer:10
21. The Older I Get