Alan Jackson The Bluegrass Album (CD)

(ACR Records) 14 tracks

In addition to eight new original songs from Jackson's pen, the album contains cover versions of There Is a Time (The Dillards), Wild And Blue (John Anderson) and a waltz version of the epochal Blue Moon Of Kentucky by Bill Monroe. Alan Jackson has been one of America's most popular country singers since the 1980s. He has sold over sixty million albums and more than twenty of his singles have topped the US country charts, including Don't Rock the Jukebox, Chattahoochee and Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning). The 54-year-old is now confidently and confidently conquering the bluegrass arena. The US music press has given his bluegrass album the stamp of authenticity. Jackson is 'definitely a bluegrass songwriter'. He has 'hit the nail on the head with this release. His originals get to the heart and soul of bluegrass...one of the few albums that will leave you hungry for more', reviewed the bluegrass magazine Cybergrass online.