C/ D : Alan Jackson

His new album is great

I'm not so sure. It's definitely nowhere near as good as his previous one -- it's got a lot of run-of-the-mill hackwork on it; it's really long for a country album, as Sanneh pointed out, and that doesn't help. But the 1976 song and the one about eating bologna are good, and there are probably others. I need to spend more time with the thing, sorting through the dullness (more on that one on Rolling Country, too, especially from Edd Hurt, who says its best song is "When The Love Factor's High.")

i haven't heard the greatest-hits collections, but i own that import above and it's great

Sanneh's piece, fwiw:

http://www.articlesmodern.com/%20/music/a-country-music-veteran-proves-he%E2%80%99s-no-mere-hat-act/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5UEW2kYvc

This song is so stuck in my head. Also Black Lips cover otm, i had that exact thought earlier today!

"So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" was real good.

Last night i pulled that up for some friends - and it's such an awesome 90s video, with the grunge jeans, that day-glo life vest, etc - but i tried thinking of more 90s country videos and i think i just hated that stuff for so long that my memory erased them all.

I did find a weird one for Garth Brooks "Friends in Low Places". Sadly that song did not get a music video treatment but there's something where he's performing it live on stage and it starts with everyone around him dressed up like they are about to go to the opera or something.

Like Red on a Rose album is so great

Best album imo. Was thinking aboit the title track while listening to Ashley Monroe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOKGbq8ARE

Classic.

"Gone Country"'s mild snobbery, if that's the right word, has never sat quite well, as much as I really like the song, and he has his corny commercial side (Chattahoochee), but the guy seems to mean pretty well, and I've always (i.e. for more than two decades) liked his never-distinguished but always-solid voice. It may stop him from ever being great, but I think his humble unassumingness is the key to his appeal, and it gives an extra kick to when he allows himself some earthly pleasures, as on "Drive," or the Jimmy Buffett collab.

Not much discussion about the new one, his best since 2006.

I'm a fan. I don't know what to say about it though!

Bold statement here: like red on a rose is the most romantic country album ever released by a man. The only comparison I can make is to like Teddy Pendergrass or maybe Maxwell. Just a deep, deep album about love.

I had never listened to like red on a rose til I saw this thread and now it’s all I can listen too. I definitely can’t think of another more romantic country album by a man off the top of my head. I especially like his voice on this one, still twangy enough to know what he’s about but doesn’t overwhelm the soft rock production. Really makes the moments when the wailing guitar arrives hit harder.

I’m so obsessed with “the firefly’s song” right now

I heard a lot of Alan Jackson as a kid but I never knew he cut an album like this. it's great, totally up my alley

it's his last train to paris

one of his best

yeah thanks for this revive, i’d never heard this record and it’s fantastic

His new album is pretty good! First since 2015? It sounds straight out of, well ... I dunno, he's pretty timeless.

He sounds good.

Angels and Alcohol was good, I'll check this one out for sure

Waaayy at the end of this long but good album is my favorite song “the older I get.” Classic Alan Jackson song