Alan Jackson was born in Newnan, Georgia on October 17, 1958. Alan Jackson was born to Eugene Jackson and Ruth Musick and has four sisters, whom are all older than him. As a youth, Jackson primarily listened to gospel music, and otherwise was not a major music fan. However, a friend of his introduced him to the music of Gene Watson, John Anderson and Hank Williams Jr. Jackson started a band after high school. After a time, he and his beautiful wife of six years, Denise, moved from Newnan to Nashville hoping to pursue music full-time. In 1989 he released his debut album, Here in the Real World. It produced five singles: "Blue Blooded Woman", "Here in the Real World", "Wanted", "Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow", and "I’d Love You All Over Again", Jackson’s first number one hit. Alan Jackson has since gone on to release fourteen more albums, with his latest being Good Time. Good Time has produced four singles on the country singles charts. The first two of these "Small Town Southern Man", the title track, and "Country Boy" have all become Number One hits. Out of Alan Jackson’s fifty-six singles, fifty-five have reached Top 40 or higher on the Billboard country singles charts, including twenty-six number one hits.
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