Alan Jackson
Jul 28, 2013
EMI Nashville/ACR artist Alan Jackson will release his first Bluegrass album, "The Bluegrass Album" on Tuesday, September 24th. Jackson wrote eight songs for the album, which also includes other originals and a couple of well-known standards of the genre.
"The Bluegrass Album" will be released on ACR (Alan's Country Records)/EMI Records Nashville. It is produced by Keith Stegall and Jackson's nephew, Adam Wright.
Jackson has openly expressed his desire to record a Bluegrass album for years. To bring the desire to life, he enlisted Scott Coney (acoustic guitar), Sammy Shelor (banjo), Adam Steffey (mandolin), Tim Crouch (fiddle), Tim Dishman (bass), Rob Ickes (dobro) and Ronnie Bowman and Don Rigsby (vocals).
Covers on "The Bluegrass Album" include The Dillards' "There Is A Time," John Anderson's "Wild and Blue" and a 3/4-time version of Bill Monroe's seminal "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
"The Bluegrass Album" track listing includes:
- "Long Hard Road"
- "Mary"
- "Appalachian Mountain Girl"
- "Tie Me Down"
- "Way Beyond The Blue"
- "Ain't Got Trouble Now"
- "Blue Ridge Mountain Song"
- "Blacktop"
- "Blue Side of Heaven"
- "There Is A Time"
- "Wild and Blue"
- "Knew All Along"
- "Let's Get Back to Me and You"
- "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
By Jaclyn Carter