Top Ten Songs by Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson is one of my favorite country singers. Born Alan Eugene Jackson on October 17, 1958, he is an American country music singer and songwriter, who became the second most popular and one of the best-selling country musicians of the 1990s. He was working as a forklift driver in K-Mart before his claim to fame, when his wife Denise ran into country singer/songwriter Glen Campbell at an airport and asked him for advice to help launch her husband’s career. Fiddles and steel guitars form the basis of most of Alan’s music and bring out the flavor of true country music that warms our hearts and keeps our feet tapping.

AJ has such a unique and soothing voice, especially when he sings his love songs. Since he has so many top hit songs, it’s difficult to choose just ten, but for the purpose of this article, that’s what I’ve done.

1. My number one favorite song of Alan’s is Remember When, a beautiful love ballad, which was written especially for the ‘Greatest Hits 2’ Album in 2003. Reminiscing about a married couple’s life from the beginning, through all the trials and pains, until they grow old is a sweet and heartwarming song.

Complete with AJ’s tender voice, steel guitar and accompanying fiddles the music video for this song will bring tears to your eyes, especially when Denise comes out to dance with him as the pictures roll in the background (some possibly of their three daughters, Mattie Denise, Alexandra Jane and Dani Grace). It was the #1 hit on the country charts for 2 weeks in a row and #29 on the US Hot 100 Chart. The album itself was #1 not only on the Country Chart, but also on the Billboard 200 Chart.

2. I’ll Go On Loving You (peaked at #3) comes from the ‘High Mileage’ Album (1998), which was the #1 album on the country charts and #4 on the Billboard Charts. It has an exquisite haunting sound and poetic verse - “I don't know what brought us together, what strange forces of nature conspire to construct the present from the past.”