February 28, 2008 - On March 4th Alan Jackson, one of Country music’s greatest songwriters and singers, will release GOOD TIME, his seventeenth album which contains, coincidentally, seventeen great new songs, one a duet with Martina McBride, all written by Jackson. Loose, inventive, traditional, high-spirited, sad, intense, laid-back, clear as a bell, GOOD TIME, which reunites Jackson with longtime producer, Keith Stegall, is a great Alan Jackson hang. The strong lead single from the album, “Small Town Southern Man” is #4 in Billboard and Radio & Records and #5 in Country Aircheck, respectively.
On March 1st, Jackson will perform and answer audience questions on CMT’S Invitation Only; on March 4th he will perform on the Today Show; and on April 14th, he will perform on the CMT Awards. On Friday, February 29th, Alan Jackson will take over SIRUS Satellite Radio’s Prime Country channel as host for five days which includes a preview of the new album. He will be on the cover of Country Weekly on sale March 10th, in Time Magazine, People, the LA Times and Chicago Tribune next week and was featured on the cover of the NY Times Arts & Leisure Sunday, February 24th.
On GOOD TIME said Jackson, “I felt like I wanted something that had some fun on it, because when I play in concert people still want to hear songs like ‘Chattahoochee’ and ‘Don’t Rock the Jukebox’. It’s why I wanted to call it ‘Good Time,’ even though the whole album’s not a bunch of party songs.”
With its seventeen straight-up original tunes related but not limited to what Jackson calls “fun,” GOOD TIME is his most ambitious demonstration of how – whether working with the great ‘60s-based country-soul of “When the Love Factor’s High” the strummed memories of “1976,” the deceptive dittiness of “I Still like Bologna,” the harmonica flecked “Never Loved Before,” a duet with Martina McBride, or the Nashville elegance of “I Wish I Could Back Up” – the country song, in Alan Jackson’s hands, is capable of all things. “There isn’t another male country artist of any age right now who can match him,” wrote CMT’s Chet Flippo.
GOOD TIME is receiving early raves:
“…a joy, well made and packed with the clever musical details that make Mr. Jackson’s best music so satisfying,”
New York Times
“There is no other word than “grace” to mark the skillful writing and economy of words in (Small Town Southern Man)… In some ways, Jackson has become the Ernest Hemingway of country music,” CMT.com
“Country superstars don’t come any more reliable than Alan Jackson,” Rolling Stone.
***1/2 – Country Weekly
Country megastar, Alan Jackson, will perform at American Bank Center Arena on May 2, 2008 at 7:30pm with special guest Little Big Town. Tickets are $50.50 - $87.50 and are available at the American Bank Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at (361) 881-8499.
Alan Jackson has sold more than 49 million albums, has penned 21 of his 31 #1 records, and is the most nominated artist in CMA history. The three-time CMA Entertainer of the Year topped the album charts not once, but twice in 2006, with the success of Precious Memories and Like Red on a Rose. GOOD TIME is his first album of all country material since 2004’s WHAT I DO.
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